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Luca Schifanella

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  20
Citations -  687

Luca Schifanella is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cytotoxic T cell. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications receiving 560 citations. Previous affiliations of Luca Schifanella include University of Milan.

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Adjuvant-dependent Innate and Adaptive Immune Signatures of Risk of SIVmac251 Acquisition

TL;DR: It is found here that an ALVAC–simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and gp120 alum (ALVAC-SIV + gp120) equivalent vaccine, but not an ALvAC–SIV - gp120 MF59 vaccine, was efficacious in delaying the onset of SIVmac251 in rhesus macaques, despite the higher immunogenicity of the latter adjuvant.
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Leishmaniasis: new insights from an old and neglected disease

TL;DR: Improvement in diagnostic methods has been obtained through the implementation of molecular amplification methods and using the rK39 antigen as the substrate, as well as the use of various antileishmanial drugs in combination.
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Imported Loa loa filariasis: three cases and a review of cases reported in non-endemic countries in the past 25 years.

TL;DR: Western physicians should be aware of the typical (eye worm migration and Calabar swellings) as well as unusual clinical presentations of loiasis, due to increasing travel and the migration of people from the endemic countries of West Africa to Europe and the USA.