Professor, Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Grace Aldrovandi, MD
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Grace Aldrovandi works in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. She received 1 awards: "Fellow (FAAP)". Grace Aldrovandi is a published doctor. She published 100 publications, including: 'Regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nef required for function in vivo.'
Publications
- Macrophage Activation in HIV-infected Adolescent Males Contributes to Differential Bone Loss by Sex: Adolescent Trials Network Study 021.
- Investigation of a suspected nosocomial transmission of blaKPC3-mediated carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by whole genome sequencing.
- Breast Milk of HIV-Positive Mothers Has Potent and Species-Specific In Vivo HIV-Inhibitory Activity.
- Oligosaccharide Composition of Breast Milk Influences Survival of Uninfected Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in Lusaka, Zambia.
- Abdominal Obesity Contributes to Neurocognitive Impairment in HIV Infected Patients with Increased Inflammation and Immune Activation.
- School-Located Influenza Vaccination Decreases Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza and Improves School Attendance.
- Are Infants Unique in Their Ability to be "Functionally Cured" of HIV-1?
- Psychrobacter immobilis Septicemia in a Boy with X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease and Fulminant Hepatic Failure.
- Microbial Translocation and Metabolic and Body Composition Measures in Treated and Untreated HIV Infection.
- Immunology of pediatric HIV infection.
- Human Milk Galectin-3 Binding Protein and Breastfeeding-Associated HIV Transmission.
- HIV-1 Concentrations in Human Breast Milk Before and After Weaning.
- Coverage of primary mother-to-child HIV transmission isolates by second-generation broadly neutralizing antibodies.
- Human milk oligosaccharide concentration and risk of postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.
- Low bone mass in behaviorally HIV-infected young men on antiretroviral therapy: Adolescent Trials Network Study 021B.
- Quantitation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in breast milk.
- Loss of T cell receptor Vbeta repertoires in HIV type 1-infected SCID-hu mice.
- The SCID-hu mouse: an in-vivo model for HIV-1 pathogenesis and stem cell gene therapy for AIDS.
- Replication and pathogenicity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 accessory gene mutants in SCID-hu mice.
- The SCID-hu mouse as a model for HIV-1 infection.
- Requirement of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nef for in vivo replication and pathogenicity.
- In vivo pathogenic properties of two clonal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates.
- Regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nef required for function in vivo.
- Human immunodeficiency virus inhibits multilineage hematopoiesis in vivo.
- Virologic and immunologic determinants of heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in Africa.
- Mother-to-infant transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus during primary infection.
- Reduced viral load and lack of CD4 depletion in SCID-hu mice infected with Rev-independent clones of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
- Favorable and unfavorable HLA class I alleles and haplotypes in Zambians predominantly infected with clade C human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
- Single-dose pharmacokinetics of enteric-coated didanosine in HIV-infected children.
- Multicenter evaluation of use of dried blood and plasma spot specimens in quantitative assays for human immunodeficiency virus RNA: measurement, precision, and RNA sta...
- HLA allele sharing and HIV type 1 viremia in seroconverting Zambians with known transmitting partners.
- CD8 T-cell responses in early HIV-1 infection are skewed towards high entropy peptides.
- Pharmacokinetics of antiretrovirals administered to HIV-infected children via gastrostomy tube.
- Issues in the design of a clinical trial with a behavioral intervention--the Zambia exclusive breast-feeding study.
- Women in couples antenatal HIV counseling and testing are not more likely to report adverse social events.
- Model for assessment of proficiency of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 sequencing-based genotypic antiretroviral assays.
- Impact of chloroquine on viral load in breast milk.
- Efficacy, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of two nelfinavir-based regimens in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children and adolescents: pediatric AIDS clinical...
- Post-weaning breast milk HIV-1 viral load, blood prolactin levels and breast milk volume.
- Reduced mortality associated with breast-feeding-acquired HIV infection and breast-feeding among HIV-infected children in Zambia.
- Prevalence of primary HIV-1 drug resistance among recently infected adolescents: a multicenter adolescent medicine trials network for HIV/AIDS interventions study.
- Hiv-specific secretory IgA in breast milk of HIV-positive mothers is not associated with protection against HIV transmission among breast-fed infants.
- Pharmacokinetics of high-dose lopinavir-ritonavir with and without saquinavir or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors in human immunodeficiency virus-infecte...
- Diminished human immunodeficiency virus type 1 DNA yield from dried blood spots after storage in a humid incubator at 37 degrees C compared to -20 degrees C.
- Multiple independent lineages of HIV-1 persist in breast milk and plasma.
- Survival and health benefits of breastfeeding versus artificial feeding in infants of HIV-infected women: developing versus developed world.
- Role of breastfeeding cessation in mediating the relationship between maternal HIV disease stage and increased child mortality among HIV-exposed uninfected children.
- Atazanavir and Atazanavir/Ritonavir Pharmacokinetics in HIV-Infected Infants, Children, and Adolescents.
- Editorial: developmental regulation of P-glycoprotein and HIV therapy: spare the thymus but spoil the child?
- Using Cluster Heat Maps to Investigate Relationships Between Body Composition and Laboratory Measurements in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Children and Young Adults.
- Immunomodulatory factors in cervicovaginal secretions from pregnant and non-pregnant women: a cross-sectional study.
- Exclusive breastfeeding, maternal HIV disease, and the risk of clinical breast pathology in HIV-infected, breastfeeding women.
- 2050: Ending the odyssey of the great white plague. Part of a series on Pediatric Pharmacology, guest edited by Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Emilio Clementi, and Massimo Mol...
- Early weaning increases diarrhea morbidity and mortality among uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers in Zambia.
- Review of HIV antiretroviral drug resistance.
- What infants and breasts can teach us about natural protection from HIV infection.
- Bone disease in HIV infection: a practical review and recommendations for HIV care providers.
- Potential impact of new WHO criteria for antiretroviral treatment for prevention of mother-to- child HIV transmission.
- Lactation-associated postpartum weight changes among HIV-infected women in Zambia.
- Restriction of HIV-1 genotypes in breast milk does not account for the population transmission genetic bottleneck that occurs following transmission.
- 4E10-resistant HIV-1 isolated from four subjects with rare membrane-proximal external region polymorphisms.
- Total body and spinal bone mineral density across Tanner stage in perinatally HIV-infected and uninfected children and youth in PACTG 1045.
- Elevations in mortality associated with weaning persist into the second year of life among uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers.
- HIV prevention is not enough: child survival in the context of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission.
- Obesity and dyslipidemia in behaviorally HIV-infected young women: Adolescent Trials Network study 021.
- Antiretroviral exposure and lymphocyte mtDNA content among uninfected infants of HIV-1-infected women.
- Intrapartum tenofovir and emtricitabine reduces low-concentration drug resistance selected by single-dose nevirapine for perinatal HIV prevention.
- High concentrations of interleukin 15 in breast milk are associated with protection against postnatal HIV transmission.
- Clean water helps but is not enough: challenges for safe replacement feeding of infants exposed to HIV.
- Detection of low levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be critical for early diagnosis of pediatric HIV infection by use of dried blood spots.
- Differential effects of early weaning for HIV-free survival of children born to HIV-infected mothers by severity of maternal disease.
- Growth faltering due to breastfeeding cessation in uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers in Zambia.
- Mortality and virologic outcomes after access to antiretroviral therapy among a cohort of HIV-infected women who received single-dose nevirapine in Lusaka, Zambia.
- Advances in basic science understanding of mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission.
- Morphologic and metabolic abnormalities in vertically HIV-infected children and youth.
- Reuse of single-dose nevirapine in subsequent pregnancies for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Lusaka, Zambia: a cohort study.
- Effects of early, abrupt weaning on HIV-free survival of children in Zambia.
- Temporal and lateral dynamics of HIV shedding and elevated sodium in breast milk among HIV-positive mothers during the first 4 months of breast-feeding.
- Reduction in preterm delivery and neonatal mortality after the introduction of antenatal cotrimoxazole prophylaxis among HIV-infected women with low CD4 cell counts.
- Violence and abuse among HIV-infected women and their children in Zambia: a qualitative study.
- High uptake of exclusive breastfeeding and reduced early post-natal HIV transmission.
- Bystander effects: children who escape infection but not harm.
- Single-dose tenofovir and emtricitabine for reduction of viral resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor drugs in women given intrapartum nevirapine...
- The mucosae-associated epithelial chemokine (MEC/CCL28) modulates immunity in HIV infection.
- Veterinary field test as screening tool for mastitis and HIV-1 viral load in breastmilk from HIV-infected Zambian women.
- Low and undetectable breast milk interleukin-7 concentrations are associated with reduced risk of postnatal HIV transmission.
- Persistence of nevirapine in breast milk after discontinuation of treatment.
- Re: HIV-1 disease progression in breast-feeding and formula-feeding mothers: a prospective 2-year comparison of T cell subsets, HIV-1 RNA levels, and mortality.
- Blinded, multicenter comparison of methods to detect a drug-resistant mutant of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 at low frequency.
- Prolonged breast-feeding and mortality up to two years post-partum among HIV-positive women in Zambia.
- Nevirapine resistance viral mutations after repeat use of nevirapine for prevention of perinatal HIV transmission.
- Vitamin D status in adolescents and young adults with HIV infection.
- Improvement in dyslipidaemia after switching stavudine to tenofovir and replacing protease inhibitors with efavirenz in HIV-infected children.
- Predictors of nonadherence to single-dose nevirapine therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
- Does severity of HIV disease in HIV-infected mothers affect mortality and morbidity among their uninfected infants?
- Alpha-defensins in the prevention of HIV transmission among breastfed infants.
- Breast milk-derived antigen-specific CD8+ T cells: an extralymphoid effector memory cell population in humans.
- Universal nevirapine upon presentation in labor to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in high prevalence settings.
- Dynamics of HIV-1 recombination in its natural target cells.
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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