Papers
HIV prevalence and route of transmission in Turkish immigrants living in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Schülter E, Oette M, Balduin M, Reuter S, Rockstroh J, Fätkenheuer G, Esser S, Lengauer T, Agacfidan A, Pfister H, Kaiser R, Akgül B.
In: PMID: 21461764 [PubMed - in process]. Link
HIV-1 mutational pathways under multidrug therapy
Glenn Lawyer, André Altmann, Alexander Thielen, Maurizio Zazzi, Anders Sönnerborg and Thomas Lengauer
In: AIDS Research and Therapy 2011, 8:26 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-8-26. Link
Prediction of Response to Antiretroviral Therapy by Human Experts and by the EuResist Data-Driven Expert System (the EVE Study). Zazzi M, Kaiser R, Sönnerborg A, Struck D, Altmann A, Prosperi M, Rosen-Zvi M, Petroczi A, Peres Y, Schülter E, Boucher CA, Brun-Vezinet F, Harrigan PR, Morris L, Obermeier M, Perno CF, Phanuphak P, Pillay D, Shafer RW, Vandamme A-M, Van Laethem K, Wensing AMJ, Lengauer T, Incardona F.
In: HIV Med, 2011 Apr; 12(4):211-218. first published online HIV Med, August 2010. Link
Low rate of virological failure and maintenance of susceptibility to HIV-1 protease inhibitors with first-line lopinavir/ritonavir-based antiretroviral treatment in clinical practice Prosperi MC, Zazzi M, Punzi G, Monno L, Colao G, Corsi P, Di Giambenedetto S, Meini G, Ghisetti V, Bonora S, Pecorari M, Gismondo MR, Bagnarelli P, Carli T, De Luca A; ARCA Collaborative Group. In: J Med Virol, 2010 Dec; 82(12):1996-2003. Link
Antiretroviral therapy optimisation without genotype resistance testing: a perspective on treatment history based models Prosperi MC, Rosen-Zvi M, Altmann A, Zazzi M, Di Giambenedetto S, Kaiser R, Schülter E, Struck D, Sloot P, van de Vijver DA, Vandamme AM, Sönnerborg A; EuResist study group; Virolab study group. In: PLoS One, 2010 Oct 29; 5(10):e13753. Link
Changing patterns in HIV-1 non-B clades prevalence and diversity in Italy over three decades Lai A, Riva C, Marconi A, Balestrieri M, Razzolini F, Meini G, Vicenti I, Rosi A, Saladini F, Caramma I, Franzetti M, Galli A, Galli M, Violin M, Zazzi M, Balotta C. In: HIV Med, 2010 Oct 1; 11(9):593-602.
Comparison of HIV-1 Genotypic Resistance Test Interpretation Systems in virological outcomes over time Dineke Frentz, Charles A. B. Boucher, Matthias Assel, Andrea De Luca, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Francesca Incardona, Pieter Libin, Nino Manca, Viktor Müller, Breanndán Ó. Nualláin, Roger Paredes, Mattia Prosperi, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Lidia Ruiz, Peter M. A. Sloot, Carlo Torti, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Kristel Van Laethem, Maurizio Zazzi, and David A. M. C. van de Vijver. In: PLoS One. 2010; 5(7): e11505. Published online 2010 July 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011505. Link
Comparative determination of HIV-1 co-receptor tropism by Enhanced Sensitivity Trofile, gp120 V3-loop RNA and DNA genotyping Prosperi MC, Bracciale L, Fabbiani M, Di Giambenedetto S, Razzolini F, Meini G, Colafigli M, Marzocchetti A, Cauda R, Zazzi M, De Luca A. In: Retrovirology, 2010 Jun 30; 7:56.
Impact of remote versus local sampling on sensitivity of genotypic antiretroviral resistance testing Balestrieri M, Marconi A, Meini G, Rosi A, Saladini F, Vicenti I, Razzolini F, Zazzi M. In: J Clin Microbiol, 2010 Jun; 48(6):2321-2.
Permutation importance: a corrected feature importance measure Altmann A., Tolosi L., Sander O. and Lengauer T. In: Bioinformatics, 15 May 2010; 26: 1340-1347 Link
Impact of extensive HIV-1 variability on molecular diagnosis in the Congo basin Bruzzone B, Ventura A, Bisio F, Mboungou FA, Miguel LM, Saladini F, Zazzi M, Icardi G, De Maria A, Viscoli C. In: J Clin Virol, 2010 Apr; 47(4):372-5.
Detection of drug resistance mutations at low plasma HIV-1 RNA load in a European multi-centre cohort study Mattia CF Prosperi, Nicola Mackie, Simona Di Giambenedetto, Maurizio Zazzi, Ricardo Camacho, Iuri Fanti, Carlo Torti, Anders Sonnerborg, Rolf Kaiser, Francisco M Codoñer, Kristel Van Laethem, Loveleen Bansi, David AMC van de Vijver, Anna Maria Geretti and Andrea De Luca. 2011 May 30. [Epub ahead of print]
Only slight impact of predicted replicative capacity for therapy response prediction Weisser H., Altmann A., Sierra S., Incardona F., Struck D., Sönnerborg A., Kaiser R., Zazzi M., Tschochner M., Walter H., Lengauer T. In: PLoS ONE 2010 Feb 3;5(2):e9044. Link
Chasing the AIDS Virus Lengauer T., Altmann A., Thielen A. and Kaiser R. In: Communications of the ACM 53, 3 (2010) 66-74.
Bioinformatische Unterstützung der Auswahl von HIV-Therapien Lengauer T., Altmann A., Thielen A. In: Informatik-Spektrum (2009) vol. 32 (4) 320-331
Computerjagd auf das AIDSVirus Lengauer T. and Kaiser R In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2009) vol. August 2009. pp. 62-67
Evolution of raltegravir resistance during therapy Sichtig N., Sierra S., Kaiser R., Däumer M., Reuter S. Schülter E., Altmann A., Fätkenheuer G., Dittmer U., Pfister H. and Esser S. In: J Antimicrob Chemother (2009) vol. 64 (1) pp. 25-32 Link
An alternative methodology for the prediction of adherence to anti HIV treatment Richard Thompson, Penelope Bidgood, Andrea Petróczi, James CW Denholm-Price, Mark D Fielder and The EuResist Network Study Group In: AIDS Research and Therapy 2009, 6:9 (June 01, 2009) The article Link
Advantages of Predicted Phenotypes and Statistical Learning Models in Inferring Virological Response to Antiretroviral Therapy from HIV Genotype Altmann A., Sing T., Vermeiren H., Winters B., Van Craenenbroeck E., Van der Borght K., Rhee S-Y, Shafer R.W., Schülter E., Kaiser R., Peres Y., Sönnerborg A., Fessel W.J., Incardona F., Zazzi M., Bacheler L., Van Vlijmen H., Lengauer T. In: Antiviral Therapy (2009), 14:273-283. Link
Investigation of expert rule bases, logistic regression, and non-linear machine learning techniques for predicting response to antiretroviral treatment. Prosperi MC, Altmann A, Rosen-Zvi M, Aharoni E, Borgulya G, Bazso F, Sànnerborg A, Schülter E, Struck D, Ulivi G, Vandamme AM, Vercauteren J, Zazzi M; the EuResist and Virolab study groups. In: Antiviral Therapy (2009); 14(3):433-442. Link
Stochastic modelling of genotypic drug-resistance for human immunodeficiency virus towards long-term combination therapy optimization Prosperi M.C., D'Autilia R., Incardona F., De Luca A., Zazzi M., Ulivi G. In: Bioinformatics (2009); 25:1040-7 Link
Predicting the Response to Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Retrospective Validation of geno2pheno-THEO on a Large Clinical Database Altmann A., Däumer M., Beerenwinkel N., Peres Y., Schülter E., Büch J., Rhee S-Y, Sönnerborg A., Fessel W.J., Shafer R.W., Zazzi M., Kaiser R., Lengauer T. In: Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2009 Apr 1;199(7):999-1006. Link
HIV-1 Drug Resistance Prediction and Therapy Optimization: A Case Study for the Application of Classification and Clustering Methods Rosen-Zvi M., Aharoni E., Selbig J., Biehl M. et al. In: Similarity-Based Clustering, LNAI 5400, pp. 185–201, 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg Link
Selecting anti-HIV therapies based on a variety of genomic and clinical factors Rosen-Zvi M., Altmann A., Prosperi M., Aharoni E. et al. In: Bioinformatics 2008; 24: i399-406, special issue for ISMB 2008, Oxford University Press Link
Antiretroviral treatment response prediction engines at work: the EuResist project Zazzi M. and Incardona F. In: Reviews in Antiviral Therapy - volume 2; 2008
Comparison of Classifier Fusion Methods for Predicting Response to Anti HIV-1 Therapy Altmann A., Rosen-Zvi M., Prosperi M., Aharoni E., et al. In: PLoS ONE 1 October 2008 Volume 3 Issue 10 e3470 Link
Improved prediction of response to antiretroviral combination therapy using the genetic barrier to drug resistance Altmann A., Beerenwinkel N., Sing T., Savenkov I., Däumer M., Kaiser R., Rhee S-Y., Fessel WJ., Shafer R, Lengauer T. In: Antiviral Therapy (2007) 12(2), 169-178 Link
Mutagenetic tree Fisher kernel improves prediction of drug resistance from viral genotype Sing T., Beerenwinkel N. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems: NIPS 2006, MIT Press, 2006
Bioinformatics-assisted anti-HIV therapy Lengauer T., Sing T. In: Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4(10), 790-797 (October 2006) Link
COMING SOON: EDCTP ENNEA Lab training
20 to 22 February 2012, Nairobi, Kenya
The course on HIV drug resistance will be hosted by World Friends.
Facilitator: Maurizio Zazzi, EuResist Network - University of Siena. Participation is open subject to availability.
EDCTP ENNEA training on data management
November 14-16 Muhimbili hospital, Dar Es Salaam
NOW: tutorials available on-line! The course followed by 15 trainees has covered basics of statistics and data management, IT tools for HIV patient management and online tools for HIV resistance prediction, subtyping, phylogenetic analysis.
EuResist Network at the sixth EDCTP Forum
October 9-13 Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Supporting the EDCTP ENNEA project, EuResist Network was at the sixth EDCTP Forum (link www.edctpforum.org) where a poster has been presented. On the 13th the II IMB meeting has been held at Black Lyon Hospital, Addis.
EuResist Network at the Think Tank INBIOMEDvision meeting
June 24, 2011, London, UK
EuResist participated in the discussion on "hot topics" in BMI, finalised to produce a strategy report on future lines for EU-funded research.
EuResist International Meeting within the AREVIR Meeting
5-6 May 2011, Bonn, Germany
Talks on treatment, resistance and data collection in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Russia, Tanzania, Vietnam. You can now download the talks.
EuResist at the 9th European Workshop on HIV & Hepatitis
Cyprus - 23 – 25 March 2011
Thomas Lengauer was invited speaker on "Applying bioinformatics to clinical practice: what will the future bring?" EuResist was also present with other oral presentations and posters.
EuResist at the Experts dialogue workshop
Santo Domingo - 7-8 March 2011
EuResist presented at the workshop on Thematic priority setting for EU, Caribbean & Central America in research and innovation. in research and innovation.
First ENEAA/EDCTP training
21 to 25 February 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
The course on HIV drug resistance was hosted by the Kemri training center. Facilitators: Maurizio Zazzi, EuResist Network, Genny Meini, University of Siena.
AIDS Research Award
11 February 2011
The AIDS Research Award of the Heinz-Ansmann Foundation to Rolf Kaiser, Thomas Lengauer and Mark Oette for interdisciplinary team work in HIV resistance analysis that laid the ground for improved patient care
EuResist Network received the prestigious Computerworld Honors program laureate Award
June 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
In addition to it, EuResist also won the 21st Century Achievement award, establishing its technology contribution as top of its class among the Healthcare Laureates.


