Publications

Weight gain in children and adolescents on dolutegravir vs standard of care in the ODYSSEY trial

2021

Authors: Turkova A, Kityo C, Mujuru A.H, Variava E, Kekitiinwa A, Lugemwa A, Barlow-Mosha L, Ngampiyaskul C, Zuidewind P, Puthanakit T, Mngqbisa R, Behuhuma O.N, Kataike H, Musoro G, Nandudu A, Amuge P, Makumbi S, Danaviah S, Ali S, Wynne B, Riault Y, Welch S, Cressey R.T, Violari A, Compagnucci A, Hakim J, Rojo P, Giaquinto C,  Gibb M.D, Ford D, the ODYSSEY trial team

Presented at : IAS 2021

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Virological failures and genotypic resistance in children and adolescents randomised to dolutegravir-based ART vs. standard-of-care in the ODYSSEY trial

2021

Authors: Kityo C, White E, Turkova A, Mujuru A.H, Nankya I, Wynne B, Ali S, Kekitiinwa A, Lugemwa A, Kaudha E, Liberty A, Cassim H, Archary M, Cotton M, Barlow-Mosha L, Cressey R.T, Ngampiyasakul C, Srirompotong U, Behuhuma O, Saidi Y, Bamford A, Kobbe R, Rojo P, Giaquinto C, Gibb M.D, Ford D on behalf of the ODYSSEY trial team

Presented at: IAS 2021

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Global estimates of the relative pediatric consumption and cost of oral amoxicillin and amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid

2021

Authors: G. A. Levine, M. Sharland, S. Ellis, Y. Ferrisse, C. Loze, Y. Hsia, G. Fink, J. Bielicki; for the PediCAP project

Presented at: ECCMID 2021

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Once daily integrase inhibitor (INSTI) with boosted darunavir is non-inferior to standard of care in virologically suppressed children – Week 48 results of the SMILE Penta-17 Trial

2021

Authors: Compagnucci A, Chan M, Saïdi Y, Cressey T, Bamford A, Riault Y, Coelho A, Nolan A, Chalermpantmetagul S, Amuge P, Musiime V, Violari A, Cotton M, Kekitiinwa A, Kaudha E,Groenewald M, Liberty A, Kanjanavanit S, Volokha A, Bologna R, Pavia Ruz N, Prieto Tato L, Paioni P, Marques L, Reliquet V, Welch S, Ford D, Giaquinto C, Gibb D, Babiker A, Ramos Amador JT, The SMILE-PENTA17-ANRS 152 Trial Group

Presented at: IAS 2021

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Once-Daily Integrase Inhibitor (Insti) With Boosted Darunavir is Non- Inferior to Standard of Care in Virogically Suppressed Children, Week 48 Results of the SMILE PENTA-17 Trial

2021

Authors: Compagnucci A , Chan M , Saïdi Y , Cressey T , Bamford A , Riault Y , Coelho A , Nolan A ,Chalermpantmetagul S , Amuge P , Musiime V , Violari A , Cotton M , Kekitiinwa A , Kaudha E , Groenewald M, Liberty A , Kanjanavanit S , Volokha A , Bologna R , Muñoz Hernández R , Fortuny-Guasch C , Paioni P , Marques L , Reliquet V , Welch S , Ford D , Giaquinto C , Gibb D , Babiker A , Ramos Amador J and The SMILE-PENTA17-ANRS 152 Trial Group

Published in: International Workshop of HIV Pediatrics 2021

Measuring research capacity development in healthcare workers: a systematic review

2021

Authors: D Bilardi, E Rapa, S Bernays, T Lang

Published in: BMJ open

Left ventricular longitudinal strain alterations in asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic paediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

2021

Authors: D Sirico, CD Chiara, P Costenaro, F Bonfante, S Cozzani, M Plebani, E Reffo, B Castaldi, D Dona, LD Dalt, C Giaquinto, and GD Salvo

Published in: European Heart Journal

Early ART initiation during infancy preserves natural killer cells in young European adolescents living with HIV (CARMA cohort)

2021

Authors: M Doria, S Zicari, N Cotugno, S Domínguez-Rodríguez, A Ruggiero, GR Pascucci, A Tagarro, PR Conejo, E Nastouli, K Gärtner, M Cameron, B Richardson, Ce Foster, SL Williams, S Rinaldi, AD Rossi, C Giaquinto, P Rossi, S Pahwa, P Palma, for the EPIICAL consortium

Published in: Journal of the International Aids Society

Mild SARS-CoV-2 infections and neutralizing antibody titers

2021

Authors: F Bonfante, P Costenaro, A Cantarutti, CD Chiara, A Bortolami, MR Petrara, F Carmona, M Pagliari, C Cosma, S Cozzani, E Mazzetto, GD Salvo, LD Dalt, P Palma, L Barzon, G Corrao, C Terregino, A Padoan, M Plebani, AD Rossi, D Donà, C Giaquinto

Published in: Pediatrics

Brain MRI and neurocognitive characteristics of children with perinatal HIV infection in Russia: a retrospective cross-sectional study

2021

Authors: MB. García,  L. Okhonskaya,  E. Voronin,  V. Rozenberg,  M. Titova,  T. Kovalenko,  A. Turkova,  IJ. Collins,  S. Crichton,  C. Velo Higueras,  MI. Gonzalez-Tomé,  JT. Ramos-Amador,  AMD. Aragón, on behalf of the REACH/EPPICC research groups

Published in: ESPID

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Adequate Daclatasvir exposures in children 14-35 Kg with available adult formulations

2021

Authors: Cressey RT, Abbassi M, Lallemant M, Indolfi G, Al-Nahari M, Farid S, Easterbrook P, Penazzato M,  El-Sayed HM

Published in: CROI 2021

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“Because we all have to grow up”: supporting adolescents in Uganda to develop core competencies to transition towards managing their HIV more independently

2021

Authors: Chloe Lanyon, Janet Seeley, Stella Namukwaya, Victor Musiime, Sara Paparini, Helen Nakyambadde, Christine Matama, Anna Turkova, Sarah Bernays

Published in: Journal of International Aids Society

DOLUTEGRAVIR-BASED ART IS SUPERIOR TO NNRTI/PI- BASED ART IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

2021

Authors: Anna Turkova1, for the ODYSSEY/PENTA-20 Trial Team

Published in: CROI 2021

The conect4children (c4c) Consortium: Potential for Improving European Clinical Research into Medicines for Children

2021

Authors: Turner MA, Hildebrand H, Fernandes RM, de Wildt SN, Mahler F, Hankard R, Leary R, Bonifazi F, Nobels P, Cheng K, Attar S, Rossi P, Rocchi F, Claverol J, Nafria B, Giaquinto C.

Published in: Pharmaceutical Medicine

ODYSSEY clinical trial design: a randomised global study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive children, with nested pharmacokinetic sub-studies to evaluate pragmatic WHO-weight-band based dolutegravir dosing

2021

Authors: Cecilia L. Moore, Anna Turkova , Hilda Mujuru , Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Abbas Lugemwa, Cissy M. Kityo, Linda N. Barlow-Mosha, et al, ODYSSEY trial team

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases

Harmonising regulatory approval for antibiotics in children

2021

Authors: Phoebe C M Williams, John Bradley, Emmanuel Roilides, Linus Olson, Sheldon Kaplan, Irja Lutsar, Carlo Giaquinto, Daniel K Benjamin, Mike Sharland

Published in: The Lancet

Zika virus infection in pregnancy: a protocol for the join analysis of the prospective cohort studies of the ZIKAlliance, ZikaPLAN and ZIKAction consortia

2021

Authors: A E Ades, Elizabeth B Brickley, Neal Alexander, David Brown, Thomas Jaenisch, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Moritz Pohl, Kerstin D Rosenberger, Antoni Soriano-Arandes , Claire Thorne et al.

Published in: BMJ Journals

A population pharmacokinetics analysis assessing the exposure of raltegravir once‐daily 1200mg in pregnant women living with HIV

2020

Authors: Vera E. Bukkems, Teun M. Post, Angela P. Colbers, David M. Burger, Elin M. Svensson

Published in: American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Cascade of care in children and adolescents with HIV in Russian Federation

2020

Author: Anna Turkova, Evgeny Voronin, Yulia Plotnikova, Anna Samarina, Edith Milanzi, Vladimir Rozenberg, Liubov Okhonskaia, Inga Latysheva, Aleksey Plynsky, Elena Fertikh, Siobhan Crichton, Charlotte Jackson, Ali Judd, Intira J Collins, on behalf of the European Pregnancy and Paediatric Infections Cohort Collaboration (EPPICC)

Published in: 12th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics

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Pediatric dolutegravir (DTG) dosing recommendations derived from combined P1093 and ODYSSEY Population Pharmacokinetic analysis

2020

Authors: Singh R, Baker M, Thapar M, Gibb D, Turkova A, Ford D, Ruel T, Wiznia A, Farhad M, Alvero C, Green J, Bollen P, Colbers A, Burger D, Acosta E

Published in: 12th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics

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Tools for Healthcare Workers to measure Health Research Capacity Development at an Individual Level

2020

Author: Bilardi D, Rapa E, Bernays S, & Lang T

Published in: European Academy of Pediatric Societies

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Vertical transmission of Zika virus and its outcomes: a Bayesian synthesis of prospective studies

2020

Authors: A E Ades, Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Ana Alarcon, Francesco Bonfante, Claire Thorne, Catherine S Peckham, Carlo Giaquinto

Published in: The Lancet Infectious Diseases

COVID and HIV: Psychological impact and awareness of COVID-19 in young people with HIV

2020

Authors: S. Bernardi1, E. Mozzo, M. Di Pastena, F. Leone, C. Novello, A. Oletto, N. Cotugno, P. Zangari, P. Palma, V. Santilli, P. Palma, O. Rampon, C. Giaquinto

Published in: 12th National Congress of Italian Conference on AIDS and Antiviral Research

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European research networks to facilitate drug research in children

2020

Author: Mark A. Turner, Katharine Cheng, Saskia de Wildt, Heidrun Hildebrand, Sabah Attar, Paolo Rossi, Donato Bonifazi, Adriana Ceci, Joana Claverol, Begonya Nafria, Carlo Giaquinto

Published in: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

 

Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Associated Hospital Admissions in Children Younger Than 5 Years in 7 European Countries Using Routinely Collected Datasets

2020

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Rachel M Reeves, Maarten van Wijhe, Sabine Tong, Toni Lehtonen, Luca Stona, Anne C Teirlinck, Liliana Vazquez Fernandez, You Li, Carlo Giaquinto, Thea Kølsen Fischer, Clarisse Demont, Terho Heikkinen, Irene Speltra, Michiel van Boven, Håkon Bøås, Harry Campbell, RESCEU Investigators

The effect of pregnancy on the pharmacokinetics of total and unbound Dolutegravir and its main metabolite in women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

2020

Authors: Bollen P, Freriksen J, Konopnicki D, Weizsäcker K , et al; on behalf of the Pharmacokinetics of ANtiretroviral agents in HIV-infected pregNAnt women Network

Published in: Clin infect Dis2020;26.ciaa006

Clinically significant lower elvitegravir exposure during third trimester of pregnant patients living with HIV: data from the PANNA study

2020

Authors: Bukkems V, Necsoi C, Hidalgo Tenorio C, et al. PANNA Network

Published in: Clin infect Dis2020; 24;ciaa488.

Simplified dolutegravir dosing for children with HIV weighing 20 kg or more: pharmacokinetic and safety substudies of the multicentre, randomised ODYSSEY trial

2020

Authors: Bollen P,  Moore CL ,  Mujuru H et al; the ODYSSEY trial team

Published in: LANCET HIV. 2020;8:e533-e544

Harmonisation preserves research resources

2020

Authors: Vasconcelos MK, Epalza C, Renk H, Tagarro A, Bielicki JA

Published in: Lancet Infect Dis. 2020;24

The CARMA study: early infant antiretroviral therapy—Timing impacts on total HIV-1 DNA quantitation 12 years later

2020

Authors: Foster C, Domínguez-Rodríguez S, Tagarro A, et al. For the Early Treated Perinatally HIV Infected Individuals: Improving Children’s Actual Life (EPIICAL) Consortium

Published in: J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc. 2020 2020 Jul 17;piaa071

The size of HIV reservoir is associated with telomere shortening and immunosenescence in early ART-treated HIV-infected children

2020

Authors: De Rossi A, Dalzini A, Ballin G, Dominguez-Rodriuguez S, Rojo P, Foster C, Palma P, Sessa L, Nastouli E, Pahwa S, Rossi P, Giaquinto C, EPIICAL Consortium

Published in: 23rd International AIDS Conference, July 6th-10th, 2020

Aging B-cells (ABC) and anti-Env humoral responses are associated with T-bet expression in B-cells of perinatally HIV infected children (PHIV) treated within 24 months (m) of life (the CARMA cohort)

2020

Authors: Ruggiero A, Cotugno N, Domínguez-Rodríguez S,  Zicari S, Rinaldi S, Zangari P, Tagarro A, Foster C, De Rossi A, Nastouli E, Luzuriaga K, Giaquinto C, Rossi P, Pawha S, Palma P, on behalf of the EPIICAL consortium.

Published in: 23rd Virtual International AIDS Conference, July 6th-10th, 2020

A machine learning approach for predicting probability of death or disease progression in an early-treated pediatric African cohort

2020

Authors: Domínguez-Rodríguez S, Tagarro A, Serna Pascual M, Otwombe K, Violari A, Fernández S, Nhampossa T, Lain M,  Vaz P , Behuhuma NO, Danaviah S, Dobbels E, Barnabas S, Cotugno N, Zangari P, Palma P, Oletto A,  Nardone A, Nastouli E, Spyer M, Kuhn L, Rossi P, Giaquinto C, Rojo P on behalf of EPIICAL consortium.

Published in: 23rd international AIDS Conference, July 6th-10th 2020

Global sales of oral antibiotics formulated for children

2020

Authors: Li G, Jackson C, Bielicki J, Ellis S, Hsiac Y, Sharland M

Published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, July 2020

The HIV-1 antibody response: a footprint of the viral reservoir in children vertically infected with HIV

2020

Authors: Palma P, McManus M, Cotugno N, Rocca S, Rossi P, Luzuriaga K

Published in: Lancet HIV. 2020;7(5):e359-e365

Clinical outcomes of a Zika virus mother–child pair cohort in Spain

2020

Authors: Soriano-Arandes A, Frick MA, García López-Hortelano M, et al.

Published in: Pathogens 2020;9(5):E352

Differences in inducibility of the latent HIV reservoir in perinatal and adult infection

2020

Authors: Dhummakupt A, Rubens JH, Andeson T, et al.

Published in: JCI Insight. 2020;5(4)

Characterization of drug resistance and the defective HIV reservoir in virally suppressed vertically infected children in Mali

2020

Authors: Brice J, Sylla M, Desire N, Sayon S, Telly F, Bocar-Fofana D, Murphy R, Peytavin G, Diallo S, Nastouli E, Calvez V, Marcelin AG, Maiga AI, Lambert-Niclot S

Published in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

A comparison of five paediatric dosing guidelines for antibiotics

2020

Authors: Mathur S, Jackson C, Urus H, Ziarko I, Goodbun M, Hsia Y, Ellis S, Sharland M.

Published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, April 2020

Interim pharmacokinetic analysis of a multi-centre randomised open label phase IIb study in neonates to validate the meta-analysis population pharmacokinetic model used to simulate an optimised dosing regimen in neonates and infants aged < 90 days: the NeoVanc trial

2020

Authors: L. Hill, E. Jacqz-Aigrain, V. Elie, W. Zhao, M. Clements, M. Turner, I. Lutsar, P. Heath, E. Roilides, S. Walker, M. Sharland

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

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An optimised dosing regimen vs. a standard dosing regimen of vancomycin for the treatment of late onset sepsis due to Gram-positive microorganisms in infants less than 90 days: the NeoVanc trial

2020

Authors: L. Hill, M. Clements, M. Turner, I. Lutsar, E. Jacqz-Aigrain, P. Heath, E. Roilides, S. Walker, M. Sharland

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

Respiratory pathogens detected in children with community-acquired sepsis-like syndrome in 6 European countries

2020

Authors: V. Matheeussen, K. Loens, K. Jacobs, P. Horby, H. Goossens, M. Kohns Vasconcelos, M. Sharland, M. De Jong, M. P. G. Koopmans, P. Fraaij, M. Ieven

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

Aetiology and outcome of children hospitalised for acute respiratory tract infections in Europe: findings from a multi-country combined case-control and cohort study

2020

Authors: M. Kohns Vasconcelos; on behalf of the PED-MERMAIDS Study Group

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

Application of WISCA (Weighted Incidence Syndromic Combination Antibiogram) to guide empiric therapy in oncological paediatric patients with febrile neutropenia

2020

Authors: E. Barbieri, D. Bottigliengo, P. Costenaro, A. Marzollo, M. Petris, M. Pierobon, G. Biddeci, C. Giaquinto, A. Biffi, D. Donà

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

Antibiotic treatment for paediatric outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia: findings from 10 years of prescribing habits in Italy

2020

Authors: P. Costenaro, A. Cantarutti, E. Barbieri, A. Scamarcia, A. Oletto, P. Sacerdoti, R. Lundin, L. Cantarutti, C. Giaquinto, D. Dona’

Published in: 30th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), April 2020

An optimised dosing regimen versus a standard dosing regimen of vancomycin for the treatment of late onset sepsis due to Gram-positive microorganisms in neonates and infants aged less than 90 days (NeoVanc): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

2020

Authors: Hill LF, Turner MA, Lutsar I, et al; NeoVanc Consortium.

Published in: Trials. 2020;21(1):329

Genomic and epidemiological surveillance of Zika virus in the Amazon region

2020

Authors: Giovanetti M, Faria NR, Lourenco J, et al.

Published in:  Cell Rep. 2020;30(7):2275-2283

Differences in inducibility of the latent HIV reservoir in perinatal and adult infection

2020

Time to viral suppression in perinatally HIV-infected infants depends on the viral load and CD4 T-cell percentage at the start of treatment

2020

Authors: Schröter J, Anelone A,  Yates A, de Boer RJ;  on behalf of the EPIICAL Consortium

Published in: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2020;83(5):522-529

 

Background Interventions aiming for an HIV cure would benefit from rapid elimination of virus after the onset of antiretroviral therapy (ART), by keeping the latent HIV reservoir small.

Setting We investigated HIV suppression in 312 perinatally infected infants starting ART within 6 months after birth from the EPPICC (European Pregnancy and Paediatric HIV Cohort Collaboration).

Methods To better understand kinetic differences in HIV suppression among infants, we investigated their individual viral load (VL) decay dynamics. We identified VL decay patterns and determined times to viral suppression (TTS). For infants with strictly declining VLs (n = 188), we used parameter fitting methods to estimate baseline VLs, decay rates, and TTS. We subsequently identified the parameters determining TTS by linear modeling.

Results The majority of infants suppress HIV VL after the onset of ART. Some children experienced a long TTS due to an “erratic” VL decay pattern. We cannot exclude that this is partly due to treatment complications and subsequent treatment changes, but these children were characterized by significantly lower CD4 percentages (CD4%) at start of treatment compared with those with a “clean” VL decline. Focusing on this “clean” subset, the TTS could be predicted by mathematical modeling, and we identified baseline VL and CD4% as the major factors determining the TTS.

Conclusions As VL steeply increases and CD4% constantly decreases in untreated HIV-infected infants, the progression of an HIV infection is largely determined by these 2 factors. To prevent a further disease progression, treatment should be initiated early after contracting HIV, which consequently shortens TTS.

Mothers’ adherence helps in identifying more infants in need of extended prophylaxis

2020

Authors: Dominguez-Rodriguez S, Rojo P, Lain MG,  Barnabas S, Lopez-Varela E, Otwombe K, Danaviah S, Nastouli E, Serna-Pasqual M, Gianuzzi V, Giaquointo C, Kuhn L, Tagarro A on behalf of the EPIICAL Consortium

Published in: 27th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, March 8th –11th, 2020 – Boston.

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