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Ana Abecasis

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Amit Abecasis

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[HTML][HTML] Automated subtyping of HIV-1 genetic sequences for clinical and surveillance purposes: performance evaluation of the new REGA version 3 and seven other …

…, NR Faria, S Imbrechts, P Libin, AB Abecasis… - Infection, genetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background To investigate differences in pathogenesis, diagnosis and resistance pathways
between HIV-1 subtypes, an accurate subtyping tool for large datasets is needed. We aimed …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of HIV-1 within-host evolution on transmission dynamics

…, A Nowe, AM Vandamme, AB Abecasis - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights • HIV-1 within-host evolution is short-sighted and favours more virulent viruses. •
Systemic HIV-1 infection is mainly established by a single variant propagation. • Ancestral …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 subtype distribution and its demographic determinants in newly diagnosed patients in Europe suggest highly compartmentalized epidemics

AB Abecasis, AMJ Wensing, D Paraskevis… - Retrovirology, 2013 - Springer
Background Understanding HIV-1 subtype distribution and epidemiology can assist preventive
measures and clinical decisions. Sequence variation may affect antiviral drug resistance …

[HTML][HTML] HIV and tuberculosis co-infection among migrants in Europe: A systematic review on the prevalence, incidence and mortality

…, I Couto, D Machado, M Viveiros, AB Abecasis… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background International human migration has been rapidly growing. Migrants coming from
low and middle income countries continue to be considerably vulnerable and at higher risk …

Scenescape: Text-driven consistent scene generation

R Fridman, A Abecasis, Y Kasten… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a method for text-driven perpetual view generation--synthesizing long-term
videos of various scenes solely, given an input text prompt describing the scene and camera …

Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable

…, TTY Lam, MA Suchard, A Abecasis… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
There is obvious interest in gaining insights into the epidemiology and evolution of the virus
that has recently emerged in humans as the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-…

Quantifying differences in the tempo of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype evolution

AB Abecasis, AM Vandamme, P Lemey - Journal of virology, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genetic diversity, due to its high evolutionary
rate, has long been identified as a main cause of problems in the development of an efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography of dengue virus serotype 4, Brazil, 2010–2011

…, KNB Nunes, SG Rodrigues, AB Abecasis… - Emerging infectious …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dengue virus serotype 4 (DENV-4) reemerged in Roraima State, Brazil, 28 years after it was
last detected in the country in 1982. To study the origin and evolution of this reemergence, …

Phylogenetic analysis as a forensic tool in HIV transmission investigations

AB Abecasis, M Pingarilho, AM Vandamme - Aids, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Because HIV is a fast-evolving virus, HIV genomic sequences of several individuals can be
used to investigate whether they belong to a transmission network. Since the infamous ‘…

A genomic signature and the identification of new sporulation genes

AB Abecasis, M Serrano, R Alves, L Quintais… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial endospores are the most resistant cell type known to humans, as they are able to
withstand extremes of temperature, pressure, chemical injury, and time. They are also of …