• COVID-19 Comes 40 Years After AIDS - Any Lesson? 

      Soriano, Vicente ; Barreiro, Pablo; Ramos, José M.; Eirós, José M.; Mendoza, Carmen de (AIDS Reviews, 06/2020)
      The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has hit health-care systems and societies in an unprecedented manner. In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were reported and wide diagnostic ...
    • Impact of scaling up SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on COVID-19 hospitalizations in Spain 

      Barandalla, Ignacio ; Alvarez, Carmen ; Barreiro, Pablo; de Mendoza, Carmen; González-Crespo, Rubén ; Soriano, Vicente (Elsevier B.V., 2021)
      Background: The advent of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines has been associated with a significant decline in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalizations and deaths. However, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Testing a vaccine candidate against Hepatitis C virus designed by combinatorial optimization 

      Malaina, Iker; Martinez, Luis; Salcines-Cuevas, David; Teran-Navarro, Héctor; Ocejo-Vinyals, J. Gonzalo; Gonzalez-Lopez, Elena; Soriano, Vicente; Úbeda Cantera, María; Pérez Pinilla, Martin-Blas; Martínez de la Fuente, Ildefonso; Álvarez-Domínguez, Carmen (Scientific Reports, 2023)
      This paper presents a new procedure for vaccine design against highly variable viruses such as Hepatitis C. The procedure uses an optimization algorithm to design vaccines that maximize the coverage of epitopes across ...
    • Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and its relationship with public interest in mental health: a study between 2020-2022 in Spain 

      Becerra-García, Juan Antonio; Barbeito, Sara; Calvo, Ana; Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Teresa (Psychology, Health and Medicine, 2023)
      The possible relationship between vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and mental health has been largely unexplored. We investigated variations in public interest in mental health issues between the different periods ...