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Chris J. Howard

Chris J. Howard

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Immunology

D-Index
67
Citations
12456
World Ranking
2707
National Ranking
1291

Overview

Chris J. Howard is affiliated with Newbury College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with significant contributions in infectious diseases, epidemiology, general health professions, virology, and emergency medicine. The work emphasizes various aspects of HIV/AIDS, both in clinical treatment and social dimensions.

The scientist's publication record includes research papers addressing topics such as HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV-related health complications and treatments, HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, smoking behavior and cessation, and LGBTQ health, identity, and policy.

  • Exploring the Social Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Living with HIV (PLHIV): A Scoping Review (2021), published in AIDS and Behavior
  • Belonging, social connection and non-clinical care: Experiences of HIV peer support among recently diagnosed people living with HIV in Australia (2022), published in Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Online HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) Dissemination by an Australian Community Peer HIV Organisation: A Scalable Way to Increase Access to Testing, Particularly for Suboptimal Testers (2021), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Peer navigators' role in supporting people living with human immunodeficiency virus in Australia: Qualitative exploration of general practitioners' perspectives (2021), published in Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Views and preferences of people living with HIV about smoking, quitting and use of nicotine products (2021), published in International Journal of Drug Policy

Chris J. Howard frequently publishes in journals such as Sexual Health, AIDS Care, AIDS and Behavior, Health & Social Care in the Community, and the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

  • Sexual Health
  • AIDS Care
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Collaborative research is a notable aspect of their career, working frequently alongside coauthors including Judith A. Dean, Lisa Fitzgerald, Allyson Mutch, Joseph Debattista, and Charles F. Gilks.

  • Judith A. Dean
  • Lisa Fitzgerald
  • Allyson Mutch
  • Joseph Debattista
  • Charles F. Gilks

Best Publications

  • Experimental production of fatal mucosal disease in cattle.

    J Brownlie;M C Clarke;C J Howard

  • Identification of a bovine surface antigen uniquely expressed on CD4-CD8- T cell receptor gamma/delta+ T lymphocytes.

    H. Clevers;Niall D. MacHugh;Albert Bensaïd;S. Dunlap

  • Involvement of caveolae in the uptake of respiratory syncytial virus antigen by dendritic cells

    Dirk Werling;Jayne C. Hope;Paul Chaplin;Robert A. Collins

  • Cloning of two members of the SIRPα family of protein tyrosine phosphatase binding proteins in cattle that are expressed on monocytes and a subpopulation of dendritic cells and which mediate binding to CD4 T cells

    Gareth P. Brooke;Keith R. Parsons;Chris J. Howard

  • PATHOGENESIS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHOEA VIRUS INFECTION OF CATTLE

    J Brownlie;M C Clarke;C J Howard;D H Pocock

  • Caveolae and caveolin in immune cells: distribution and functions

    James Harris;Dirk Werling;Jayne C Hope;Geraldine Taylor

  • Differential production of cytokines, reactive oxygen and nitrogen by bovine macrophages and dendritic cells stimulated with Toll‐like receptor agonists

    Dirk Werling;Jayne C Hope;Chris J Howard;Thomas W Jungi

  • Role of T-Lymphocyte Subsets in Recovery from Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Calves

    G Taylor;L H Thomas;S G Wyld;J Furze

  • Identification of two distinct populations of dendritic cells in afferent lymph that vary in their ability to stimulate T cells.

    Chris J. Howard;Paul Sopp;Joe Brownlie;Lai Shan Kwong

  • Comparison by the neutralisation assay of pairs of non-cytopathogenic and cytopathogenic strains of bovine virus diarrhoea virus isolated from cases of mucosal disease.

    C.J. Howard;J. Brownlie;M.C. Clarke

  • Variation in the intracellular polypeptide profiles from different isolates of bovine virus diarrhoea virus.

    D. H. Pocock;C. J. Howard;M. C. Clarke;J. Brownlie

  • Summary of workshop findings for cattle (tables 1 and 2).

    Chris J. Howard;Jan Naessens

  • In vivo depletion of BoT4 (CD4) and of non-T4/T8 lymphocyte subsets in cattle with monoclonal antibodies.

    Christopher J. Howard;Paul Sopp;Keith R. Parsons;Julie Finch

  • Gammadelta T cells present antigen to CD4+ alphabeta T cells.

    R A Collins;D Werling;S E Duggan;A P Bland

  • Protection against respiratory infection with bovine virus diarrhoea virus by passively acquired antibody.

    C.J. Howard;M.C. Clarke;J. Brownlie

  • Experimental infection of cattle in early pregnancy with a cytopathic strain of bovine virus diarrhoea virus

    J. Brownlie;M.C. Clarke;C.J. Howard

  • Development of an ELISA for bovine IL-10.

    L.S. Kwong;J.C. Hope;M.L. Thom;P. Sopp

  • Modulation of Immune Responses to Mycobacterium bovis in Cattle Depleted of WC1+ γδ T Cells

    Hilary E. Kennedy;Michael D. Welsh;David G. Bryson;Joseph P. Cassidy

  • Identification of a novel class of mammalian Fc gamma receptor.

    Gaiping Zhang;J. R. Young;C. A. Tregaskes;P. Sopp

  • Exposure to Mycobacterium avium induces low-level protection from Mycobacterium bovis infection but compromises diagnosis of disease in cattle.

    Jayne Hope;M.L. Thom;B. Villarreal-Ramos;H.M. Vordermeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Jayne Hope
Jayne Hope University of Edinburgh
Joe Brownlie
Joe Brownlie Royal Veterinary College
Geraldine Taylor
Geraldine Taylor Jenner Institute
Dirk Werling
Dirk Werling Royal Veterinary College
Bryan Charleston
Bryan Charleston The Pirbright Institute
William C. Davis
William C. Davis Washington State University
Wendy C. Brown
Wendy C. Brown Washington State University
Guy H. Palmer
Guy H. Palmer Washington State University
James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge

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