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Artur Summerfield

Artur Summerfield

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Immunology

D-Index
63
Citations
12128
World Ranking
3062
National Ranking
74

Overview

Artur Summerfield is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research spans several fields, notably Medicine, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Immunology and Microbiology. Subfields of focus include Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, and Epidemiology.

Their work covers diverse topics related to animal and viral diseases, including Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Animal Virus Infections Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, and broader Microbial infections and disease research.

The scientist has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Coinfections and their molecular consequences in the porcine respiratory tract (2020) in Veterinary Research
  • Enhanced fitness of SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Alpha but not Beta (2021) in Nature
  • Animal board invited review: Risks of zoonotic disease emergence at the interface of wildlife and livestock systems (2021) in animal
  • Contagious Bovine and Caprine Pleuropneumonia: a research community's recommendations for the development of better vaccines (2020) in npj Vaccines
  • Perspectives for improvement of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccines in pigs (2021) in Veterinary Research

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Nicolas Ruggli
  • Obdulio García-Nicolás
  • Stephanie C. Talker
  • Charaf Benarafa
  • Kemal Mehinagic

Their published work has appeared repeatedly in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Immunology, PLoS Pathogens, Veterinary Research, and Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

Best Publications

  • The pig: a model for human infectious diseases

    François Meurens;Artur Summerfield;Hans Nauwynck;Linda Saif

  • The immunology of the porcine skin and its value as a model for human skin.

    Artur Summerfield;François Meurens;Meret E. Ricklin

  • The porcine innate immune system: an update.

    K.H. Mair;C. Sedlak;T. Käser;A. Pasternak

  • Porcine dendritic cells generated in vitro: morphological, phenotypic and functional properties.

    Carlos P. Carrasco;Rachael C. Rigden;Rene Schaffner;Heidi Gerber

  • Classical Swine Fever Virus Npro Interacts with Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 and Induces Its Proteasomal Degradation

    Oliver Bauhofer;Artur Summerfield;Yoshihiro Sakoda;Jon-Duri Tratschin

  • Association of lymphopenia with porcine circovirus type 2 induced postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)

    J. Nielsen;I.E. Vincent;A. Bøtner;A.-S. Ladekjær-Mikkelsen

  • Chicken Cells Sense Influenza A Virus Infection through MDA5 and CARDIF Signaling Involving LGP2

    Matthias Liniger;Artur Summerfield;Gert Zimmer;Kenneth C. McCullough

  • Coinfections and their molecular consequences in the porcine respiratory tract

    Georges Saade;Céline Deblanc;Juliette Bougon;Juliette Bougon;Corinne Marois-Créhan

  • Vector-free transmission and persistence of Japanese encephalitis virus in pigs

    Meret E. Ricklin;Obdulio García-Nicolás;Daniel Brechbühl;Sylvie Python

  • Dendritic Cells Harbor Infectious Porcine Circovirus Type 2 in the Absence of Apparent Cell Modulation or Replication of the Virus

    I. E. Vincent;C. P. Carrasco;B. Herrmann;B. M. Meehan

  • Classical Swine Fever Virus Interferes with Cellular Antiviral Defense: Evidence for a Novel Function of Npro

    Nicolas Ruggli;Jon-Duri Tratschin;Matthias Schweizer;Kenneth C. McCullough

  • Lymphocyte Apoptosis during Classical Swine Fever: Implication of Activation-Induced Cell Death

    Artur Summerfield;Sonja M. Knötig;Kenneth C. McCullough

  • Porcine peripheral blood dendritic cells and natural interferon-producing cells

    Artur Summerfield;Laurence Guzylack-Piriou;Alexander Schaub;Carlos P Carrasco

  • The porcine dendritic cell family.

    Artur Summerfield;Kenneth C. McCullough

  • Type-A CpG oligonucleotides activate exclusively porcine natural interferon-producing cells to secrete interferon-α, tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-12

    Laurence Guzylack-Piriou;Carole Balmelli;Kenneth C McCullough;Artur Summerfield

  • In Vitro Induction of Mucosa-Type Dendritic Cells by All-Trans Retinoic Acid

    Leslie Saurer;Kenneth C. McCullough;Artur Summerfield

  • Functional characterization of porcine CD4+CD8+ extrathymic T lymphocytes.

    Artur Summerfield;Hanns-Joachim Rziha;Armin Saalmüller

  • Intermediate stages in monocyte-macrophage differentiation modulate phenotype and susceptibility to virus infection.

    K C McCullough;S Basta;S Knötig;H Gerber

  • Subset-dependent modulation of dendritic cell activity by circovirus type 2

    Isabelle E Vincent;Carlos P Carrasco;Laurence Guzylack-Piriou;Brigitte Herrmann

  • Silencing of natural interferon producing cell activation by porcine circovirus type 2 DNA.

    Isabelle E Vincent;Carole Balmelli;Brian Meehan;Gordon Allan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth C. McCullough
Kenneth C. McCullough University of Bern
Armin Saalmüller
Armin Saalmüller University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Gert Zimmer
Gert Zimmer University of Bern
Martin A. Hofmann
Martin A. Hofmann Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen (Swiss Federal Veterinary Office)
Rémy Bruggmann
Rémy Bruggmann University of Bern
Joan K. Lunney
Joan K. Lunney Agricultural Research Service
Michael P. Murtaugh
Michael P. Murtaugh University of Minnesota
Gordon Allan
Gordon Allan Queen's University Belfast
Andreas Zurbriggen
Andreas Zurbriggen University of Bern
Eileen L. Thacker
Eileen L. Thacker Agricultural Research Service

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