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Overview

Basil I. Swanson is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with particular contributions to Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds
  • Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications

Among their recent published articles are:

  • Interaction of amphiphilic lipoarabinomannan with host carrier lipoproteins in tuberculosis patients: Implications for blood-based diagnostics, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Conditions for Handling and Optimal Storage of Mycolactone, 2021, Methods in molecular biology
  • Interaction of Amphiphilic Lipoarabinomannan with Host Carrier Lipoproteins in Tuberculosis Patients: Implications for Blood-based Diagnostics, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors include Harshini Mukundan, Shailja Jakhar, Rama Murthy Sakamuri, Dung M. Vu, and Priya Dighe.

Publication venues where Basil I. Swanson's work commonly appears consist of:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Characterization of the first examples of isolable molecular hydrogen complexes, M(CO)3(PR3)2(H2) (M = molybdenum or tungsten; R = Cy or isopropyl). Evidence for a side-on bonded dihydrogen ligand

    G. J. Kubas;R. R. Ryan;B. I. Swanson;P. J. Vergamini

  • Observation of Intrinsically Localized Modes in a Discrete Low-Dimensional Material

    B. I. Swanson;J. A. Brozik;S. P. Love;G. F. Strouse

  • Direct Observation of Sol−Gel Conversion: The Role of the Solvent in Organogel Formation

    Rong Wang;Cristina Geiger;Liaohai Chen;Basil Swanson

  • Porphyrin based self-assembled monolayer thin films. Synthesis and characterization

    DeQuan Li;Basil I. Swanson;Jeanne M. Robinson;Mark A. Hoffbauer

  • Waveguide-Based Biosensors for Pathogen Detection

    Harshini Mukundan;Aaron S. Anderson;W. Kevin Grace;Karen M. Grace

  • Speciation of aqueous gold(III) chlorides from ultraviolet/visible absorption and Raman/resonance Raman spectroscopies

    Julia A. Peck;C.Drew Tait;Basil I. Swanson;Gordon E. Brown

  • Molecular hydrogen complexes of the transition metals. 4. Preparation and characterization of M(CO)3(PR3)2(.eta.2-H2) (M = molybdenum, tungsten) and evidence for equilibrium dissociation of the H-H bond to give MH2(CO)3(PR3)2

    Gregory J. Kubas;Clifford J. Unkefer;Basil I. Swanson;Eiichi. Fukushima

  • A new application of UV-ozone treatment in the preparation of substrate-supported, mesoporous thin films

    Theotis Clark, Jr.,†,‡;Julia D. Ruiz;Hongyou Fan;C. Jeffrey Brinker

  • Polyelectrolyte and molecular host ion self-assembly to multilayer thin films : An approach to thin film chemical sensors

    X. Yang;S. Johnson;J. Shi;T. Holesinger

  • Potential Constants of Iron Pentacarbonyl from Vibrational Spectra of Isotopic Species

    Llewellyn H. Jones;Robin S. McDowell;Maxwell Goldblatt;Basil I. Swanson

  • Nature of the donor-acceptor bond in acetonitrile-boron trihalides. The structures of the boron trifluoride and boron trichloride complexes of acetonitrile

    Basil Swanson;Durward F. Shriver;James A. Ibers

  • Resonance Raman studies of blue copper proteins: Effect of temperature and isotopic substitutions. Structural and thermodynamic implications

    David F. Blair;Gary W. Campbell;Jon R. Schoonover;Sunney I. Chan

  • Direct, ultrasensitive, and selective optical detection of protein toxins using multivalent interactions

    Xuedong Song;Basil I. Swanson

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF CHAIN MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES IN LONG-CHAIN, LAYERED SILVER THIOLATES : A JOINT INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDY

    A. N. Parikh;S. D. Gillmor;J. D. Beers;K. M. Beardmore

  • Why does D2 bind better than H2? A theoretical and experimental study of the equilibrium isotope effect on H2 binding in a M(η2-H2) complex. Normal coordinate analysis of W(CO)3(PCy3)2(η2-H2)

    Bruce R. Bender;Gregory J. Kubas;Llewellyn H. Jones;Basil I. Swanson

  • Nature of the donor-acceptor interaction in boron trihalide complexes. Vibrational spectra and vibrational analysis of acetonitrile-boron trichloride and acetonitrile-boron tribromide

    D. F. Shriver;Basil Swanson

  • Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis biomarkers in a sandwich immunoassay format using a waveguide-based optical biosensor.

    Harshini Mukundan;Sandeep Kumar;Dominique N. Price;Sonja M. Ray

  • VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA, VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS, AND BONDING IN ACETONITRILE-- BORON TRIFLUORIDE.

    Basil Swanson;Durward F. Shriver

  • Electronic sensing of biological and chemical agents using functionalized nanostructures

    Jean Christophe Gabriel;George Gruner;Philip Collins;Basil Swanson

  • Interpretation of potential constants: application to study of bonding forces in metal cyanide complexes and metal carbonyls

    Llewellyn H. Jones;Basil I. Swanson

  • Scanning Force Microscopy Study of Patterned Monolayers of Alkanethiols on Gold. Importance of Tip−Sample Contact Area in Interpreting Force Modulation and Friction Force Microscopy Images

    G. Bar;S. Rubin;A. N. Parikh;B. I. Swanson

  • Molecular recognition and self-assembled polymer films for vapor phase detection of explosives.

    Xiaoguang Yang;Xian-Xian Du;Jingxuan Shi;Basil Swanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Llewellyn H. Jones
Llewellyn H. Jones Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brian L. Scott
Brian L. Scott Los Alamos National Laboratory
Atul N. Parikh
Atul N. Parikh University of California, Davis
Nasser Peyghambarian
Nasser Peyghambarian University of Arizona
Geoffrey F. Strouse
Geoffrey F. Strouse Florida State University
Juergen Eckert
Juergen Eckert University of South Florida
Harry B. Gray
Harry B. Gray California Institute of Technology
Thomas A. Zawodzinski
Thomas A. Zawodzinski University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Carol J. Burns
Carol J. Burns Los Alamos National Laboratory
C. Jeffrey Brinker
C. Jeffrey Brinker University of New Mexico

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