Silvestri G

ORCID: 0000-0001-6602-2470 · 2 papers in corpus
other 2024
SIV infection in sooty mangabeys does not impact survival but changes the relative frequency of the main cause of death
mBio ·doi:10.1128/mbio.01639-24

UNLABELLED: Sooty mangabeys (SMs) are natural hosts of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and do not progress to AIDS despite high viral replication. The main factors involved in the benign nature of this infection are (i) low level of imm…

lab-animal 2010
Damaged intestinal epithelial integrity linked to microbial translocation in pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infections.
PLoS pathogens ·doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1001052

The chronic phase of HIV infection is marked by pathological activation of the immune system, the extent of which better predicts disease progression than either plasma viral load or CD4(+) T cell count. Recently, translocation of microbial…