Túlio de Oliveira

Research interests

Publications

• Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Nature Medicine · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03130-3

• Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

  Nature · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04411-y

• Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa

  Nature Medicine · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01911-2

• Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus

  PLoS Biology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769

• T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron

  Nature · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04460-3

• New SARS-CoV-2 Variants — Clinical, Public Health, and Vaccine Implications

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2100362

• Escape of SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 from neutralization by convalescent plasma

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03471-w

• Efficacy of NVX-CoV2373 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2103055

• The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

  Nature Reviews Genetics · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-021-00408-x

• Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03402-9

• Efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2102214

• SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma

  Nature Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01285-x

• Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04387-1

• Sixteen novel lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa

  Nature Medicine · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01255-3

• SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2 elicited neutralization and requires ACE2 for infection

  medRxiv · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.21267417

• SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

  Nature Microbiology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w

• SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166

• Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa

  medRxiv · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.21.20248640

• Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0043-0

• Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

  Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7115

• Genome Detective: an automated system for virus identification from high-throughput sequencing data

  Bioinformatics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty695

• HIV-1 drug resistance before initiation or re-initiation of first-line antiretroviral therapy in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(17)30702-8

• Microbial genome-wide association studies: lessons from human GWAS

  Nature Reviews Genetics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2016.132

• Transmission networks and risk of HIV infection in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a community-wide phylogenetic study

  The Lancet HIV · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3018(16)30186-2

• Automated subtyping of HIV-1 genetic sequences for clinical and surveillance purposes: Performance evaluation of the new REGA version 3 and seven other tools

  Infection Genetics and Evolution · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2013.04.032

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