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Britta C. Urban is affiliated with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on epidemiology, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology, and microbiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of respiratory infections and COVID-19, exploring topics such as pneumonia and respiratory infections, respiratory viral infections research, malaria research and control, bacterial infections and vaccines, COVID-19 clinical research studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and the impact of COVID-19 on reproduction.

Recent papers include the following:

  • Effect of co-infection with intestinal parasites on COVID-19 severity: A prospective observational cohort study, 2021, EClinicalMedicine
  • Respiratory mucosal immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 after infection and vaccination, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Interrogating the Impact of Intestinal Parasite-Microbiome on Pathogenesis of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Longitudinal profile of antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19 in a setting from Sub-Saharan Africa: A prospective longitudinal study, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Effect of Co-Infection with Intestinal Parasites on COVID-19 Severity: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Daniela M. Ferreira, Andrea M. Collins, Elena Mitsi, Carla Solórzano, and Jesús Reiné.

Their work has appeared predominantly in publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, PLoS ONE, BMJ Open, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes modulate the maturation of dendritic cells.

    Britta C. Urban;David J. P. Ferguson;Arnab Pain;Nick Willcox

  • A role for CD36 in the regulation of dendritic cell function

    Britta C. Urban;Nick Willcox;David J. Roberts

  • Platelet-mediated clumping of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes is a common adhesive phenotype and is associated with severe malaria.

    Arnab Pain;David J. P. Ferguson;Oscar Kai;Britta C. Urban

  • HIV-exposed uninfected children: a growing population with a vulnerable immune system?

    L. Afran;L. Afran;M. Garcia Knight;M. Garcia Knight;E. Nduati;Britta Urban;Britta Urban

  • A defunctioning polymorphism in FCGR2B is associated with protection against malaria but susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus

    Lisa C. Willcocks;Edward J. Carr;Heather A. Niederer;Tim F. Rayner

  • Systemic lupus erythematosus-associated defects in the inhibitory receptor FcγRIIb reduce susceptibility to malaria

    Menna R. Clatworthy;Lisa Willcocks;Britta Urban;Jean Langhorne

  • Fatal Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Causes Specific Patterns of Splenic Architectural Disorganization

    Britta C. Urban;Tran T. Hien;Nicholas P. Day;Nguyen H. Phu

  • Inflammatory Flt3l is essential to mobilize dendritic cells and for T cell responses during Plasmodium infection

    Pierre Guermonprez;Julie Helft;Carla Claser;Stephanie Deroubaix

  • Modular Organization of the Carboxyl-Terminal, Globular Head Region of Human C1q A, B, and C Chains

    Uday Kishore;Sanjeev K. Gupta;Michael V. Perdikoulis;Mihaela S. Kojouharova

  • A non-sense mutation in Cd36 gene is associated with protection from severe malaria.

    Arnab Pain;Britta C Urban;Oscar Kai;Climent Casals-Pascual

  • Specific Receptor Usage in Plasmodium falciparum Cytoadherence Is Associated with Disease Outcome

    Lucy B. Ochola;Bethsheba R. Siddondo;Harold Ocholla;Siana Nkya

  • Copy number, linkage disequilibrium and disease association in the FCGR locus

    Heather A. Niederer;Lisa C. Willcocks;Tim F. Rayner;Wanling Yang

  • Prime-boost vaccination with chimpanzee adenovirus and modified vaccinia Ankara encoding TRAP provides partial protection against Plasmodium falciparum infection in Kenyan adults

    Caroline Ogwang;Domtila Kimani;Nick J. Edwards;Rachel Roberts

  • Early interactions between blood-stage plasmodium parasites and the immune system.

    B. C. Urban;R. Ing;M. M. Stevenson

  • Correlation of Memory T Cell Responses against TRAP with Protection from Clinical Malaria, and CD4+ CD25high T Cells with Susceptibility in Kenyans

    Stephen M. Todryk;Stephen M. Todryk;Stephen M. Todryk;Philip Bejon;Philip Bejon;Tabitha Mwangi;Magdalena Plebanski

  • Deficiency of a subset of T-cells with immunoregulatory properties in sarcoidosis

    Ling-Pei Ho;Ling-Pei Ho;Britta C Urban;David R Thickett;Robert J O Davies

  • PfEMP1 expression is reduced on the surface of knobless Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes

    Paul Horrocks;Robert A. Pinches;Srabasti J. Chakravorty;Janni Papakrivos

  • Peripheral blood dendritic cells in children with acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Britta C. Urban;Tabitha Mwangi;Amanda Ross;Samson Kinyanjui

  • Malaria, monocytes, macrophages and myeloid dendritic cells: sticking of infected erythrocytes switches off host cells

    Britta C Urban;David J Roberts

  • Malaria pigment paralyzes dendritic cells.

    Britta C Urban;Stephen Todryk

  • The normal cellular prion protein is strongly expressed by myeloid dendritic cells.

    John Burthem;Britta Urban;Britta Urban;Arnab Pain;Arnab Pain;David J. Roberts;David J. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
James A. Berkley
James A. Berkley University of Oxford
David J. Roberts
David J. Roberts University of Oxford
Uday Kishore
Uday Kishore Brunel University London
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Peter C. Bull
Peter C. Bull University of Cambridge
Stephen Todryk
Stephen Todryk Northumbria University
Philip Bejon
Philip Bejon University of Oxford
Jean Langhorne
Jean Langhorne The Francis Crick Institute
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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