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Simone Giannecchini

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology
Verified email at unifi.it
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COVID-19 salivary signature: diagnostic and research opportunities

D Sapkota, TM Søland, HK Galtung, LP Sand… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - jcp.bmj.com
The COVID-19 (caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2))
epidemic started in Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) in mid-December 2019 and quickly …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of the mechanism by which polyomaviruses exploit the extracellular vesicle delivery system during infection

S Giannecchini - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increasing evidence suggests that human viruses can hijack extracellular vesicles (EVs) to
deliver proteins, mRNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) and whole viral particles during viral …

[HTML][HTML] SARS‐CoV‐2: What can saliva tell us?

PH Braz‐Silva, D Pallos, S Giannecchini, KKW To - Oral Diseases, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dear Editor, An epidemic pneumonia was first reported in the city of Wuhan, China, in the
end of December 2019, had its aetiological agent identified as a new coronavirus (Zhu et al …

Polyomavirus microRNAs circulating in biological fluids during viral persistence

F Martelli, S Giannecchini - Reviews in medical virology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence suggests that microRNA‐mediated gene silencing, detected during
exosome intercellular communication between cells, may be exploited by persistent human …

Performance of at-home self-collected saliva and nasal-oropharyngeal swabs in the surveillance of COVID-19

PH Braz-Silva, AC Mamana, CM Romano… - Journal of oral …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: SARS-CoV-2 quickly spreads in the worldwide population,
imposing social restrictions to control the infection, being the massive testing another …

DDX3X helicase inhibitors as a new strategy to fight the West Nile virus infection

A Brai, F Martelli, V Riva, A Garbelli… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Increased frequency of arbovirus outbreaks in the last 10 years represents an important
emergence for global health. Climate warming, extensive urbanization of tropical regions …

Collaborative resource allocation in wireless sensor networks

S Giannecchini, M Caccamo… - … Euromicro Conference on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional real-time resource allocation algorithms assume that the available resources in a
system such as total CPU and network bandwidth do not change over time. However, in …

[HTML][HTML] Co-circulation of the two influenza B lineages during 13 consecutive influenza surveillance seasons in Italy, 2004–2017

S Puzelli, A Di Martino, M Facchini, C Fabiani… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Since 1985, two antigenically distinct lineages of influenza B viruses (Victoria-
like and Yamagata-like) have circulated globally. Trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines …

Torquetenovirus (TTV) load is associated with mortality in Italian elderly subjects

R Giacconi, F Maggi, L Macera, M Pistello… - Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
An age-related dysregulation of immune response, known as immunosenescence,
contributes to increased susceptibility to infections, frailty and high risk of mortality in the …

Antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 of Conformationally constrained helical peptides derived from angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

M Quagliata, MA Stincarelli, AM Papini… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the availability of vaccines, COVID-19 continues to be aggressive, especially in
immunocompromised individuals. Therefore, the development of a specific therapeutic …