Publications

Publications are divided in topics: bioinformatics software application, virus and pathogen evolution and medical virology and molecular evolution of others organisms.


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Bioinformatics Sotware Applications

Assessment of Automated Genotyping Protocols as Tools for Surveillance of HIV-1 Genetic Diversity

Gifford R, de Oliveira T, Rambaut A, Myers RE, Gale CV, Dunn D, Shafer R, Vandamme A, Kellam P, and D. Pillay. (2006) AIDS, 20(11):1521-9.

  Out of Africa: The BioAfrica website.
de Oliveira T (2006) BioTechniques 41, 129.

An automated genotyping system for analysis of HIV-1 and other microbial sequences
de Oliveira T, K. Deforche, S. Cassol, M. Salminen, R. Camacho, D. Pavareskevis, C. Seebregts, J. Snoeck, A.M. VanDamme. (2005) Bioinformatics, 21: 3797-3800.

Scourge of a Continent: The BioAfrica website
de Oliveira T, Cassol S (edited by M. Leslie) (2005) Science 310, 1877.

BioAfrica’s HIV-1 Proteomics Resource: Combining protein data with bioinformatics tools. 
Doherty RS, de Oliveira T, Seebregts C, Danaviah S, Gordon M, Cassol S.  (2005) Retrovirology, 9;2(1):18.

An Integrated Genetic Data Environment (GDE)-Based LINUX Interface for Analysis of HIV-1 and Other Microbial Sequences.
de Oliveira T, Miller R, Tarin M, Cassol S.  (2003) Bioinformatics, 19(1): 153-4.

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Virus and Pathogen Evolution:


Conserved footprints of APOBEC3G on hypermutated HIV-1 and HERV-K(HML2) sequences
.  Journal of Virology (2008) In press
Armitage AE, Katzourakis A, de Oliveira T, Welch JJ, Belshaw R, Bishop KN, Kramer B, McMichael AJ, Rambaut A & Iversen AKN


The HIV Type 1 Epidemic in Bulgaria Involves Multiple Subtypes and Is Sustained by Continuous Viral Inflow from West and East European Countries. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. (2008) Jun 10. [Epub ahead of print]
Salemi M, Goodenow MM, Montieri S, de Oliveira T, Santoro MM, Beshkov D, Alexiev I, Elenkov I, Elenkov I, Yakimova T, Varleva T, Rezza G, Ciccozzi M.


High-Resolution Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary History of HIV-1 Subtypes in Albania. PLoS ONE. 2008 Jan 2;3(1):e1390.
Salemi M, de Oliveira T, Ciccozzi M, Rezza G, Goodenow MM.

Phylogenetic Surveillance of Viral Genetic Diversity and the Evolving Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1.  Journal of Virology. (2007) Sep 26;
de Oliveira T/Gifford RJ,  Rambaut A, Pybus OG, Dunn D, Vandamme AM, Kellam P, Pillay D.

Mapping the molecular characteristics of Brazilian human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 Env (gp46) and Pol amino acid sequences for vaccine design. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. (2007); 102(6):741-9.
Mota-Miranda AC, de Oliveira T, Moreau DR, Bomfim C, Galvao-Castro B, Alcantara LC.

Libya should stop denying scientific evidence on HIV. Nature (2007); 448(7157):992.
Colizzi V, de Oliveira T, Roberts RJ.

Recombination is confounding the early evolutionary history of HIV-1: subtype G is a circulating recombinant form. Journal of Virology. (2007);81(16):8543-51.
Abecasis AB, Lemey P, Vidal N, de Oliveira T, Peeters M, Camacho R, Shapiro B, Rambaut A, Vandamme AM.

An outbreak of HIV-1 subtype G among Italian injecting drug users. AIDS (2007) May 31;21(9):1213-1215.
Ciccozzi M, Montieri S, Salemi M,de Oliveira T, Dorrucci M, Sinicco A, De Luca A, Giuliani M, Balotta C, Rezza G.

Evidence for recombination in natural populations of porcine circovirus type 2 in Hong Kong and mainland China. J Gen Virol. (2007) ;88(Pt 6):1733-7.
Ma CM, Hon CC, Lam TY, Li VY, Wong CK, de Oliveira T, Leung FC.

Re-mapping the molecular features of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 Brazilian sequences. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. (2007); 102(2):133-9.
Queiroz AT, Mota-Miranda AC, de Oliveira T, Moreau DR, Urpia Cde C, Carvalho CM, Galvao-Castro B, Alcantara LC.

Sequential Broadening of CTL Responses in Early HIV-1 Infection is Associated With Viral Escape. PLoS ONE. (2007); 2:e225.
Karlsson AC, Iversen AK, Chapman JM, de Oliveira T, Spotts G, McMichael AJ, Davenport MP, Hecht FM, Nixon DF.

Genetic and Biologic Characterization of HIV Type 1 Subtype C Isolates from South Brazil. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. (2007); 23(1):135-43.
Monteiro JP, Ferraro GA, de Oliveira T, Goldani LZ, Kashima S, Alcantara LC, Morgado MG, Bou-Habib DC, Galvao-Castro B.

Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak. Nature (2006) 444(7121):836-7.
de Oliveira T, Pybus OG, Rambaut A, Salemi M, Cassol S, Ciccozzi M, Rezza G, Gattinara GC, D’Arrigo R, Amicosante M, Perrin L, Colizzi V, Perno CF; Benghazi Study Group.

Tracing the origin of Brazilian HTLV-1 as determined by analysis of host and viral genes. AIDS (2006), 20(5):780-782.
Alcantara LC, de Oliveira T, Gordon M, Pybus O, Mascarenhas RE, Seixas MO, Goncalves M, Hlela C, Cassol S, Galvao-Castro B.

Phylodynamic analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in distinct brain compartments provides a model for the neuropathogenesis of AIDS. Journal of Virology (2005), 79(17):11343-11352.
Salemi M, Lamers SL, Yu S, de Oliveira T, Fitch WM, McGrath MS.

Different Epidemic Potentials of the HIV-1B and C Subtypes. J Mol Evol. (2005), 60(5):598-605.
Salemi M, de Oliveira T, Soares MA, Pybus O, Dumans AT, Vandamme AM, Tanuri A, Cassol S, Fitch WM.

Codon-Substitutions Models as Indicators of Positive Selection and Amino Acid Diversification: An Alternative Approach to HIV-1Vaccine Development? Genetics (2004), 167(3):1047-58.
de Oliveira T, Salemi M, Gordon M, Vandamme A-M, van Rensburg EJ, Engelbrecht S, and Cassol S

Variability at HIV-1 Subtype C Protease Cleavage Sites: An Indication of Viral Fitness? Journal of Virology (2003), 77(17): 9422-30
de Oliveira T, Engelbrecht S, van Rensburg EJ, Gordon M, Bishop K, Megede Jz, Barnett SW, Cassol S.

Mosaic genomes of the six major Primate lentivirus lineages revealed by phylogenetic and split-decomposition analyses. Journal of Virology (2003), 77(13): 7202-7213.
Salemi M, de Oliveira T, Courgnaud V, Moulton V, Holland B, Cassol S, Peeters M, and Vandamme A-M.

Molecular Characteristics of HIV-1 Subtype C Viruses from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Implications for Vaccine and Antiretroviral Control Strategies. Journal of Virology (2003), 77(4): 2587-2599.
Gordon M, de Oliveira T, Bishop K, Coovadia HM, Madurai L, Engelbrecht S, Janse van Rensburg E, Mosam A, Smith A, Cassol S.

A Specific subtype C of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 circulates in Brazil. AIDS (2003), 17: 11-22.
Soares M, de Oliveira T, Brindeiro R, Diaz R, Sabino E, Brigido L, Pires I, Morgado M, Dantas M, Barreira D, Teixeira P, Cassol S, Tanuri A.

Novel Evolutionary Analysis of Full-lenght HIV-1 Subtype C Molecular Clones from Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS Research and Human Restroviruses (2002), 18(17): 1327-32.
Zur Megede J, Engelbrecht S, de Oliveira T, Cassol S, Scriba T, van Rensburg E, Barnett S.
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Molecular Evolution of Other Organisms:


Molecular dating and biogeography of the neritic krill Nyctiphanes.

 D’Amato ME, Harkins GW, de Oliveira T, Teske PR, Gibbons MJ. (2008) Marine Biology in press.

Molecular cloning and functional analysis of three type D endogenous retroviruses of sheep reveal a different cell tropism from that of the highly related exogenous jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.
Palmarini M, Hallwirth C, York D, Murgia C, de Oliveira T, Spencer T, Fan H. (2000) Journal of Virology, 74(17):8065-76.


Revised 15 of May 2008 - Tulio de Oliveira.