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Phenotype and specificity of T cells in primary human cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy : IL-7Rpos long-term memory phenotype is associated with protection from vertical transmission

Mele, Federico ; Fornara, Chiara ; Jarrossay, David ; Furione, Milena ; Arossa, Alessia ; Spinillo, Arsenio ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio ; Gerna, Giuseppe ; Sallusto, Federica ; Lilleri, Daniele

In: Plos one, 2017, vol. 12, no. 11, p. e0187731

Congenital human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is the major cause of birth defects and a precise definition of the HCMV-specific T-cell response in primary infection may help define reliable correlates of immune protection during pregnancy. In this study, a high throughput method was used to define the frequency of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells specific for four HCMV proteins in the naïve...

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Fetal human cytomegalovirus transmission correlates with delayed maternal antibodies to gH/gL/pUL128-130-131 complex during primary infection

Lilleri, Daniele ; Kabanova, Anna ; Revello, Maria Grazia ; Percivalle, Elena ; Sarasini, Antonella ; Genini, Emilia ; Sallusto, Federica ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio ; Corti, Davide ; Gerna, Giuseppe

In: Plos one, 2013, vol. 8, no. 3, p. e59863

Primary human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infections during pregnancy are associated with a high risk of virus transmission to the fetus. To identify correlates of intrauterine HCMV transmission, serial serum samples from HCMV transmitter and non-transmitter pregnant women with primary HCMV infection were analyzed for the presence of neutralizing antibodies against different glycoproteins and...

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Antibody-driven design of a human cytomegalovirus gHgLpUL128L subunit vaccine that selectively elicits potent neutralizing antibodies

Kabanovaa, Anna ; Perez, Laurent ; Lilleri, Daniele ; Marcandalli, Jessica ; Agatic, Gloria ; Becattini, Simone ; Preite, Silvia ; Fuschillo, Dario ; Percivalle,Elena ; Sallusto, Federica ; Gerna, Giuseppe ; Corti, Davide ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio

In: Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America, 2014, vol. 111, no. 50, p. 17965-17970

The use of neutralizing antibodies to identify the most effective antigen has been proposed as a strategy to design vaccines capable of eliciting protective B-cell immunity. In this study, we analyzed the human antibody response to cytomegalovirus (human cytomegalovirus, HCMV) infection and found that antibodies to glycoprotein (g)B, a surface glycoprotein that has been developed as a HCMV...

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Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies that potently neutralize human cytomegalovirus infection by targeting different epitopes on the gH/gL/UL128-131A complex

Macagno, Annalisa ; Bernasconi, Nadia L. ; Vanzetta, Fabrizia ; Dander, Erica ; Sarasini, Antonella ; Revello, Maria Grazia ; Gerna, Giuseppe ; Sallusto, Federica ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio

In: Journal of Virology, 2010, vol. 84, no. 2, p. 1005-1013

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a widely circulating pathogen that causes severe disease in immunocompromised patients and infected fetuses. By immortalizing memory B cells from HCMV-immune donors, we isolated a panel of human monoclonal antibodies that neutralized at extremely low concentrations (90% inhibitory concentration [IC90] values ranging from 5 to 200 pM) HCMV infection of...