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    • Occult hepatitis B and HIV infection 

      Soriano, Vicente ; Aguilera, Antonio; González, Rocío; Gómez-Gallego, Felix ; Barea, Luisa; Treviño, Mercedes; Corral, Octavio Jorge (European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 11/2019)
      Introduction Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, so-called occult B infection (OBI), is defined by the recognition of HBV-DNA in the absence of serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The HBV-DNA genome in OBI is ...
    • One-Pot, One-Step Production of Dietary Nucleotides by Magnetic Biocatalysts 

      del Arco, Jon; Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Jordaan, Justin; Hormigo, Daniel; Perona, Almudena; Fernández-Lucas, Jesús; Martínez-Pascual, Sara; Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier (Catalysts, 05/2018)
      The enzymatic synthesis of nucleotides offers several advantages over traditional multistep chemical methods, such as stereoselectivity, regioselectivity, enantioselectivity, simple downstream processing, and the use of ...
    • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for viral infections other than HIV 

      Soriano, Vicente; Treviño, Ana; de Mendoza, Carmen; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; Pintos, Ilduara; Barreiro, Pablo; Corral, Octavio Jorge (Infezioni in Medicina, 2022)
      The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ...
    • Rapid subacute myelopathy following kidney transplantation from HTLV-1 donors: role of immunosuppresors and failure of antiretrovirals 

      Roc, Lourdes; Mendoza, Carmen de; Fernández-Alonso, Miriam; Reina, Gabriel; Soriano, Vicente ; Rodriguez, C.; ...et al.; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Gómez-Gallego, Felix (Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 08/2019)
      Two kidney transplant recipients from a single donor became infected with HTLV-1 (human T-lymphotropic virus type 1) in Spain. One developed myelopathy 8 months following surgery despite early prescription of antiretroviral ...
    • Safety considerations in the management of hepatitis C and HIV co-infection 

      Soriano, Vicente; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; Treviño, Ana; Barreiro, Pablo; de Jesús-Franco, Fernando; Corral, Octavio Jorge; de Mendoza, Carmen (Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2023)
      Introduction: Both HCV and HIV are highly prevalent infections with current estimates of 57 and 38 million people infected worldwide, respectively. Oral antivirals can be curative for HCV and rescue HIV patients from disease ...
    • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibodies in Adults in Madrid, Spain 

      Soriano, Vicente ; Meiriño, Rosa; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Guallar, María Pilar (Clinical infectious diseases, 2021)
      We read with interest the article by Huff and Singh [1] in which they highlight the role of asymptomatic transmissions of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The authors point out that “public ...
    • Susceptibility to hepatitis B virus infection in adults living in Spain 

      Soriano, Vicente; Aguilera, Antonio; Benito, Rafael; Gonzalez-Diez, Rocio; Miro, Elisenda; Liendo, Paloma; Rodriguez-Diaz, Juan Carlos; Cabezas, Teresa; Richart, Alberto; Ramos, José Manuel; Barea, Luisa; Alvarez, Carmen; Treviño, Ana; Gómez-Gallego, Felix; Corral, Octavio Jorge; de Mendoza, Carmen (Liver International, 2023)
      BackgroundA protective hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine has been available for four decades. Universal HBV vaccination of infants is recommended by the WHO since the 1990s. Furthermore, HBV immunization is advised for all ...
    • The unexpected high prevalence of HBV subgenotype D4 in patients with chronic hepatitis B in Galicia, a northwestern Spanish region, reflects strong links with Latin America 

      Trastoy, Rocío; González-Alba, José María; Soriano, Vicente ; Rodríguez-Calviño, José Javier; de Mendoza, Carmen; Costa, José Javier; Cea, María; Barbeito, Gema; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Gómez-Gallego, Felix ; Pérez del Molino, María Luisa; Carlos Galán, Juan; Aguilera, Antonio (Journal of Clinical Virology, 2022)
      Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) comprises 9 genotypes and multiple subgenotypes that depict differences in geographic distribution, clinical outcome and response to antiviral therapy. However, the molecular epidemiology ...
    • Third wave of COVID-19 in Madrid, Spain 

      Soriano, Vicente ; de Mendoza, Carmen; Gómez-Gallego, Felix ; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Barreiro, Pablo (Innoeduca-international journal of infectious diseases, 2021)
      A third wave of COVID-19 occurred after Christmas 2020 in Madrid, one of the European pandemic epicenters. We noticed 6 major differential features to previous waves. First, household contacts were a large proportion of ...
    • Treatment of hepatitis delta and HIV infection 

      Soriano, Vicente; de Mendoza, Carmen; Treviño, Ana; Ramos-Rincón, José-Manuel; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Barreiro, Pablo (Liver International, 2023)
      Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a defective agent that only infects individuals with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Around 5–10% of chronic hepatitis B patients worldwide are superinfected with HDV, which means 15–25 million ...
    • Trends in hospitalizations and deaths in HIV-infected patients in Spain over two decades 

      Ramos-Rincón, José-Manuel; Menchi-Elanzi, Maroune; Pinargote-Celorio, Héctor; Mayoral, Asunción; González-Alcaide, Gregorio; de Mendoza, Carmen; Barreiro, Pablo; Gómez-Gallego, Felix ; Corral, Octavio Jorge ; Soriano, Vicente (AIDS, 02/2022)
      Background: The prognosis of HIV infection dramatically improved after the introduction of triple antiretroviral therapy 25 years ago. Herein, we report the impact of further improvements in HIV management since then, ...
    • Ultra-long-acting antivirals as chemical vaccines to prevent viral diseases 

      Soriano, Vicente; Edagwa, Benson; de Mendoza, Carmen; Barreiro, Pablo; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Treviño, Ana; Gendelman, Howard E. (Future Microbiology, 07/2022)
      For two centuries, vaccines have been successful in the fight against viruses, triggering immune protection. Indeed, the elimination of smallpox, the only infectious disease eradicated to date, was made possible through ...
    • Use of antibiotics in respiratory viral infections 

      Fernández-Montero, José Vicente; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Barreiro, Pablo; Soriano, Vicente (Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2022)
      Besides the intrinsic complications caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection, other conditions, such as bacterial infections pose an additional risk to COVID-19 patients. The study published in this issue by Moreno-Torres et al. [1] ...
    • Viral hepatitis in persons living with HIV in the post-COVID era 

      Soriano, Vicente; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; de Mendoza, Carmen; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Barreiro, Pablo (AIDS reviews, 2023)
      Coinfection with hepatitis viruses A to E is frequent in persons living with HIV (PLWH) and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Oro-fecal transmissible hepatitis A and E mostly produce acute self-limited episodes ...