Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase
Center for Colloid and Surface Science

Personal information

Position: Permanent Staff

Email: maria.chironna@uniba.it

Phone: +39 080 5592328

Location: Bari


Fields of Interest and Expertise

Epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases, public health, virology, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, vaccines, vaccination, health communication

Teaching

Degree courses of the School of Medicine and Surgery-University of Bari

Curriculum Vitae

Full Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine since 2021 at the School of Medicine of the University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine. PH.D. in \"Infectious Diseases\". He has worked on several projects funded by MIUR and the Ministry of Health. Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology-UOC Hygiene, Policlinico Hospital of Bari. Coordinator of the Degree Courses of the Health Professions (SNT04). Member of the Ph.D. teaching board: \"PUBLIC HEALTH, CLINICAL MEDICINE AND ONCOLOGY\" and previously \"ANIMAL HEALTH AND ZOONOSES\". Main research areas: epidemiology, public health, vaccination, surveillance and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, health emergencies. Teaching activity in three-year degree courses of the Health Professions of the School of Medicine and the Degree Course in Dentistry, Bachelor’s degree of the Department of Pharmacy-Medicine Sciences and Schools of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bari and Community Medicine and Primary Care. Member of the scientific group \"Data and Surveillance\" at Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Member of the Working Group \"Feasibility of HIV/AIDS national platform\". Member of the National Working Group for Viral Hepatitis at Ministry of Health. \"Regional Commission for HIV and AIDS interventions\" component. She is involved in several epidemiological and molecular surveillance activities at the Osservatorio Epidemiologico Regionale (OER Puglia). The h-index in November 2021 is 29.

Awards

Unit

Publications

Prevalence of Influenza B/Yamagata Viruses From Season 2012/2013 to 2021/2022 in Italy as an Indication of a Potential Lineage Extinction

- Marchi S. - Bruttini M. - Milano G. - Manini I. - Maria Chironna - Pariani E. - Manenti A. - Kistner O. - Montomoli E. - Temperton N. - Trombetta C.
Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

First real-world data on universal respiratory syncytial virus prophylaxis with Nirsevimab in infants

- Orsi A. - Scarpaleggia M. - Baldo V. - Barbone F. - Maria Chironna - Giuffrida S. - Montomoli E. - Pariani E. - Rizzo C. - Panatto D. - Icardi G.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene

Echovirus 11 lineage I and other enteroviruses in hospitalized children with acute respiratory infection in Southern Italy, 2022- 2023

- Loconsole D. - Centrone F. - Sallustio A. - Casulli D. - Zagaria R. - Sacco D. - Colella V. - Albano N. - Caselli D. - Cardinale F. - Giordano P. - Lofù I. - Laforgia N. - Maria Chironna
International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Pannonibacter anstelovis sp. nov. Isolated from Two Cases of Bloodstream Infections in Paediatric Patients

- Castellana S. - De Laurentiis V. - Bianco A. - Del Sambro L. - Grassi M. - De Leonardis F. - Derobertis A.M. - De Carlo C. - Sparapano E. - Mosca A. - Stolfa S. - Ronga L. - Santacroce L. - Maria Chironna - Parisi M. - Capozzi L. - Parisi A.
Microorganisms

RSV Disease Burden in Primary Care in Italy: A Multi-Region Pediatric Study, Winter Season 2022–2023

- Scarpaci M. - Bracaloni S. - Esposito E. - De Angelis L. - Baglivo F. - Casini B. - Panatto D. - Ogliastro M. - Loconsole D. - Maria Chironna - Pariani E. - Pellegrinelli L. - Pandolfi E. - Croci I. - Rizzo C.
Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Pre-COVID-19-pandemic RSV epidemiology and clinical burden in pediatric primary care in Italy: a comparative analysis across two regions for the 2019/2020 season

- Pandolfi E. - Loconsole D. - Maria Chironna - van Summeren J. - Paget J. - Raponi M. - Russo L. - Campagna I. - Croci I. - Concato C. - Perno C.F. - Tozzi A.E. - Linardos G. - Bartolucci V. - Ciampini S. - Muda A.O. - De Angelis L. - Ciofi Degli Atti M.L. - Rizzo C.
BMC Infectious Diseases

Waning intra-season vaccine effectiveness against influenza A(H3N2) underlines the need for more durable protection

- Domnich A. - Orsi A. - Signori A. - Maria Chironna - Manini I. - Napoli C. - Rizzo C. - Panatto D. - Icardi G.
Expert Review of Vaccines

Genomic surveillance of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals a prolonged outbreak of extensively drug-resistant ST147 NDM-1 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Apulia region (Southern Italy)

- Loconsole D. - Sallustio A. - Sacco D. - Santantonio M. - Casulli D. - Gatti D. - Accogli M. - Parisi A. - Zagaria R. - Colella V. - Centrone F. - Maria Chironna
Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Perturbations of the T-cell receptor repertoire in response to SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals

- Delmonte O.M. - Oguz C. - Dobbs K. - Myint-Hpu K. - Palterer B. - Abers M.S. - Draper D. - Truong M. - Kaplan I.M. - Gittelman R.M. - Zhang Y. - Rosen L.B. - Snow A.L. - Dalgard C.L. - Burbelo P.D. - Imberti L. - Sottini A. - Quiros-Roldan E. - Castelli F. - Rossi C. - Brugnoni D. - Biondi A. - Bettini L.R. - D'Angio M. - Bonfanti P. - Anderson M.V. - Saracino A. - Maria Chironna - Di Stefano M. - Fiore J.R. - Santantonio T. - Castagnoli R. - Marseglia G.L. - Magliocco M. - Bosticardo M. - Pala F. - Shaw E. - Matthews H. - Weber S.E. - Xirasagar S. - Barnett J. - Oler A.J. - Dimitrova D. - Bergerson J.R.E. - McDermott D.H. - Rao V.K. - Murphy P.M. - Holland S.M. - Lisco A. - Su H.C. - Lionakis M.S. - Cohen J.I. - Freeman A.F. - Snyder T.M. - Lack J. - Notarangelo L.D.
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

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