DR. ANTONIO CAMIRO ZÚÑIGA


Education:

  • 2023 – Specialist in Internal Medicine, ABC Medical Center, Mexico.
  • 2019 – Master in Medical Sciences, Universidad Anáhuac México Norte.
  • 2017 – Surgeon, Universidad Anáhuac México Norte.

Academic appointments::

  • Infectology resident at the National Cancer Institute.
  • Consultant to the Pan American Health Organization, Communicable Diseases and Health Determinants. Environmental (CDE) and HIV, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HT).
  • Peer reviewer in academic journals.

Research interests:

  • HIV infection: Epidemiology, Opportunistic infections, Acute HIV infection, Immunopathogenesis.
  • Clinical decision algorithms and machine learning.

Experience:

  • PREVALIO-CDMX, protocol for the implementation of rapid tests for the detection of opportunistic infections in patients with advanced HIV disease.
  • Editor of the APS Guide, for primary health care.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Antonio Camiro Zúñiga, María Fernanda Parada Pérez, Vanessa Giselle Peschard Rodriguez, Carlos Vera Lara. “Guía APPS/Atención Primaria en Salud” Editorial: Intersistemas. Enero del 2017. ISBN 978-607-443-637-2

Marfil-Garza BA, Belaunzarán-Zamudio PF, Gulias-Herrero A, Zuñiga AC, Caro-Vega Y, Kershenobich-Stalnikowitz D, Sifuentes-Osornio J. Risk factors associated with prolonged hospital length-of-stay: 18-year retrospective study of hospitalizations in a tertiary healthcare center in Mexico. PLoS One. 2018 Nov 8;13(11):e0207203. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207203. eCollection 2018.

S Perez‐Patrigeon, A Camiro‐Zúñiga, MR Jaramillo‐Jante, PF Belaunzarán‐Zamudio, B Crabtree‐Ramírez, LE Soto‐Ramírez, JJ Calva, C Hernández‐León, JL Mosqueda‐Gómez, S Navarro‐Alvarez. JG Sierra‐Madero. Immediate treatment of acute HIV in a tertiary healthcare center: bridging gaps in communication using smartphones. HIV Med. 2019 May;20(5):308-316. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12713. Epub 2019 Mar 29.

MI Figueroa, A Camiro‐Zuñiga, PF Belaunzaran‐Zamudio, J Sierra Madero, J Andrade Villanueva, JR Arribas, JR Lama, DM Cecchini, G Lopardo, B Crabtree‐Ramírez, A Gun, P Patterson, VI Fink, OG Sued, P Cahn. The effect of protease inhibitor‐based dual antiretroviral regimens on CD4/CD8 ratio during the first year of therapy in ART‐naïve patients with HIV‐infection. HIV Med. 2021 Apr;22(4):254-261. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13008. Epub 2020 Dec 17.

JA Garcia-Gordillo, A Camiro-Zúñiga, M Aguilar-Soto, D Cuenca, A Cadena-Fernández, L Salame Khouri, J Naanous Rayek, M Mercado, ARMII Study Group. COVID-IRS: A novel predictive score for risk of invasive mechanical ventilation in patients with COVID-19. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 5;16(4):e0248357. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248357. eCollection 2021.

JM Rodríguez-Castañón, A Mcnaughton, A Cárdenas-Ochoa, LL Fuentes-Romero, M Viveros-Rogel, M Vergara-Mendoza, AC Tello-Mercado, G Leal-Gutiérrez, JJ Romero-Carvajal, J Cázares-Lara, A Camiro-Zúñiga, R Jaramillo-Jante, B Antuna-Puente, A Galindo-Fraga, LE Soto-Ramírez, JG Sierra-Madero, S Perez-Patrigeon. Exceptional T CD4 + Recovery Post-antiretroviral Is Linked to a Lower HIV Reservoir with a Specific Immune Differentiation Pattern. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2021 May 5. doi: 10.1089/AID.2020.0270.

Domenico Lo Tartaro, Antonio Camiro-Zúñiga, Milena Nasi, Sara De Biasi, Marco A. Najera-Avila, Maria Del Rocio Jaramillo-Jante, Lara Gibellini, Marcello Pinti, Anita Neroni, Cristina Mussini, Luis E. Soto-Ramírez, Juan J. Calva, Francisco Belaunzarán-Zamudio, Brenda Crabtree-Ramirez, Christian Hernández-Leon, Juan L. Mosqueda-Gómez, Samuel Navarro-Álvarez, Santiago Perez-Patrigeon, Andrea Cossarizza. Effective Treatment of Patients Experiencing Primary, Acute HIV Infection Decreases Exhausted/Activated CD4+ T Cells and CD8+ T Memory Stem Cells. Cells 2022, 11(15), 2307; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11152307

Luis E Ramirez-Gonzalez, Antonio Camiro-Zúñiga, Alicia Piñeirua-Menendez, Juan F Sánchez-Avila, A Harumi Hirata-Hernández, Karen A Marañón-Solorio, Irwin Zamora-Tapia, Areli Pérez-Carrizosa, Emmanuel Simental-Aldaba, Juan G Sierra-Madero. Risk factors associated with HCV co-infection amongst MSM and transgender women living with HIV in Mexico City: a case-control study. Ann Hepatol. 2022 Sep 9;100758. doi: 10.1016/j.aohep.2022.100758.