Roberto Ferretto

Background

Ferretto, Roberto was born on October 11, 1958 in Piovene Rocchette, Vicenza, Italy.

Education

Degree in medicine and surgery, Padova (Italy) University, 1986.

Career

Medical community doctor Public Health and Hygiene, Thiene, Vicenza, Italy, 1988-1992. Consultant infectious diseases Italy-Uganda Cooperative program, West Nile, Uganda, Africa, 1993-1995, Hospital and University Verona, Italy, 1995-2000. Consultant Infectious Diseases Unit, Schio, Vicenza, Italy, since 2000.

Works

• article

  • Drug resistance in B and non-B subtypes amongst subjects recently diagnosed as primary/recent or chronic HIV-infected over the period 2013–2016: Impact on susceptibility to first-line strategies including integrase strand-transfer inhibitors

    (to characterize the prevalence of transmitted drug resist...)

    2017
  • Baseline Cellular HIV DNA Load Predicts HIV DNA Decline and Residual HIV Plasma Levels during Effective Antiretroviral Therapy | Journal of Clinical Microbiology

    (Cellular human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) DNA ...)

    2011
  • KSHV DNA viremia correlates with low CD4+ cell count in Italian Males at the time of diagnosis of HIV infection

    (To evaluate the relevance and the virological and immunol...)

    2011
  • A stable CC-chemokine receptor (CCR)-5 tropic virus is correlated with the persistence of HIV RNA at less than 2.5 copies in successfully treated naïve subjects | BMC Infectious Diseases | Full Text

    (To determine if tropism for CXCR4 or CCR5 correlates with...)

    2013
  • Strong and persistent correlation between baseline and follow-up HIV-DNA levels and residual viremia in a population of naïve patients with more than 4 years of effective antiretroviral therapy

    (In a longitudinal study on 181 naïve patients who respond...)

  • Lethal systemic dissemination from a cutaneous infection due to Curvularia lunata in a heart transplant recipient - Tessari - 2003 - Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology - Wiley Online Library

    (A 69‐year‐old male heart transplant recipient, being trea...)

    2003
  • Epidemiology and Microbiology of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Preliminary Results of a National Registry

    (Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) represent a wide ...)

    2018
  • Structural equation modelling of viral tropism reveals its impact on achieving viral suppression within 6 months in treatment-naive HIV-1-infected patients after combination antiretroviral therapy

    (To evaluate the role of pre-treatment co-receptor tropism...)

    2016
  • Tick-borne encephalitis in North-East Italy: A 14-year retrospective study, January 2000 to December 2013

    (To estimate incidence rates (IR) and spatial distribution...)

    2015
  • Decreasing trends of drug resistance and increase of non-B subtypes amongst subjects recently diagnosed as HIV-infected over the period 2004–2012 in the Veneto Region, Italy

    (The present study was designed to prospectively monitor t...)

    2013
  • (PDF) Role of pretreatment variables on plasma HIV RNA value at the sixth month of antiretroviral therapy including all first line drugs in HIV naïve patients: A path analysis approach

    (We investigated the conditioning roles of viral tropism a...)

    2019
  • AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphomas from an Italian area

    (In a retrospective study, 42 (7.7%) of 545 patients with ...)

    1998

• Other Work

  • Contributor articles to professional journals.

Membership

• European Study Group Nosocomial Infections

Connections

Son of Vittorio Ferretto and Lucia Segalla. Married Virginia Giurgica, November 16, 1996.

Father:

Vittorio

Father:

Vittorio Ferretto

Mother:

Lucia

Mother:

Lucia Segalla

Spouse:

Virginia Giurgica