Mariana Mendonca Melo

Mariana Mendonca Melo is a Researcher at Erasmus Medical Center in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases within the School of Internal Medicine. Her work focuses on infectious disease research with particular emphasis on HIV and parasitic infections.

Dr. Mendonca Melo's research spans multiple areas of infectious diseases, with a strong focus on HIV epidemiology, treatment, and virology. Her work also extends to tropical medicine with significant contributions in leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, and other parasitic infections. The fingerprint analysis of her work shows strong representation in Human Immunodeficiency Virus research (100%), HIV pharmacology (58%), and various parasitic diseases including Leishmaniasis (50%).

Her publication record demonstrates a clear trajectory in HIV research, with recent work focusing on controller phenotypes in HIV-2 cohorts and real-world effectiveness of new antiretroviral therapies. She also maintains an active interest in rare parasitic infections, as evidenced by her case reports on unusual presentations of diseases like mucosal leishmaniasis and ectopic worm infections.

Dr. Mendonca Melo actively collaborates with the AIDS Therapy Evaluation in the Netherlands (ATHENA) Observational HIV Cohort, contributing to large-scale epidemiological studies of HIV in the Netherlands. Her research has attracted significant attention, with one publication on a highly virulent HIV-1 variant being picked up by 291 news outlets and referenced in 4 Wikipedia pages.