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Christos J. Petropoulos

Christos J. Petropoulos

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Microbiology

D-Index
87
Citations
26401
World Ranking
800
National Ranking
370

Medicine

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89
Citations
28764
World Ranking
12697
National Ranking
6492

Overview

Christos J. Petropoulos is a researcher affiliated with LabCorp in the United States, specializing in medicine with a focus on infectious diseases. Their research portfolio comprises over 200 publications, primarily concentrating on infectious diseases, neurology, virology, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

Petropoulos's recent scholarly contributions include research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, with a particular emphasis on the long-term effects and clinical aspects of the virus. Significant publications are:

  • Correlates of protection against symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae (2022, Cell)
  • Markers of Immune Activation and Inflammation in Individuals With Postacute Sequelae of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection (2021, The Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • Long-term SARS-CoV-2-specific immune and inflammatory responses in individuals recovering from COVID-19 with and without post-acute symptoms (2021, Cell Reports)
  • Chronic viral coinfections differentially affect the likelihood of developing long COVID (2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation)

Their published work often addresses topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, including clinical studies and investigations into long-term effects of COVID-19. Petropoulos has also contributed extensively to HIV research, covering areas such as HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, as well as interventions targeting the disease. The main topics of their work are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Collaborations have been an integral part of Petropoulos's research career. Frequent co-authors include Ahmed Chenna, John Winslow, Terri Wrin, Steven G. Deeks, and Michael J. Peluso, with co-authorship counts ranging from 28 to 38 publications per collaborator.

Petropoulos's work is prominently published in leading venues within medical and biological sciences. They have multiple publications across the following journals:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Rapid evolution of the neutralizing antibody response to HIV type 1 infection

    Douglas D. Richman;Terri Wrin;Susan J. Little;Christos J. Petropoulos

  • A Novel Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Assay for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Christos J. Petropoulos;Neil T. Parkin;Kay L. Limoli;Yolanda S. Lie

  • Comprehensive Cross-Clade Neutralization Analysis of a Panel of Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Monoclonal Antibodies

    James M. Binley;Terri Wrin;Bette Korber;Michael B. Zwick

  • Virologic and immunologic consequences of discontinuing combination antiretroviral-drug therapy in HIV-infected patients with detectable viremia.

    Steven G. Deeks;Terri Wrin;Teri Liegler;Rebecca Hoh

  • Genetic and Immunologic Heterogeneity among Persons Who Control HIV Infection in the Absence of Therapy

    Florencia Pereyra;Marylyn M. Addo;Daniel E. Kaufmann;Yang Liu

  • T cell and antibody responses induced by a single dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine in a phase 1/2 clinical trial.

    K J Ewer;Barrett;S Belij-Rammerstorfer;H Sharpe

  • Time trends in primary HIV-1 drug resistance among recently infected persons.

    Robert M. Grant;Frederick M. Hecht;Maria Warmerdam;Lea Liu

  • Sexual transmission of an HIV-1 variant resistant to multiple reverse-transcriptase and protease inhibitors.

    Frederick M. Hecht;Robert M. Grant;Christos J. Petropoulos;Beth Dillon

  • Access of Antibody Molecules to the Conserved Coreceptor Binding Site on Glycoprotein gp120 Is Sterically Restricted on Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Aran F. Labrijn;Pascal Poignard;Aarti Raja;Michael B. Zwick

  • Reduced Antiretroviral Drug Susceptibility Among Patients With Primary HIV Infection

    Susan J. Little;Eric S. Daar;Richard T. D'Aquila;Philip H. Keiser

  • Development and characterization of a novel single-cycle recombinant-virus assay to determine human immunodeficiency virus type 1 coreceptor tropism.

    Jeannette M. Whitcomb;Wei Huang;Signe Fransen;Kay Limoli

  • Advances in quantitative PCR technology: 5' nuclease assays.

    Yolanda S Lie;Christos J Petropoulos

  • Neutralizing antibody responses drive the evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope during recent HIV infection

    Simon D. W. Frost;Terri Wrin;Davey M. Smith;Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

  • Expression of a cellular oncogene during liver regeneration.

    Michele Goyette;Christos J. Petropoulos;Peter R. Shank;Nelson Fausto

  • Drug susceptibility in HIV infection after viral rebound in patients receiving indinavir-containing regimens.

    Diane V. Havlir;Nick S. Hellmann;Christos J. Petropoulos;Jeannette M. Whitcomb

  • Phase 1/2 trial of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 with a booster dose induces multifunctional antibody responses.

    Barrett;S Belij-Rammerstorfer;C Dold;K J Ewer

  • Markers of Immune Activation and Inflammation in Individuals With Postacute Sequelae of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.

    Michael J Peluso;Scott Lu;Alex F Tang;Matthew S Durstenfeld

  • Recommendations for the design and use of standard virus panels to assess neutralizing antibody responses elicited by candidate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 vaccines.

    John R. Mascola;Patricia D'Souza;Peter Gilbert;Beatrice H. Hahn

  • Broad nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor cross-resistance in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 clinical isolates.

    Jeannette M. Whitcomb;Neil T. Parkin;Colombe Chappey;Nicholas S. Hellmann

  • Evidence for Positive Epistasis in HIV-1

    Sebastian Bonhoeffer;Colombe Chappey;Neil T. Parkin;Jeanette M. Whitcomb

  • Reduced antiretroviral drug susceptibility among patients with primary HIV infection, JAMA 282: 1142-9

    Susan J. Little;E. S. Daar;R. T. D'Aquila;P. H. Keiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Parkin
Neil Parkin Data First COnsulting
Terri Wrin
Terri Wrin LabCorp (United States)
Douglas D. Richman
Douglas D. Richman University of California, San Diego
Steven G. Deeks
Steven G. Deeks University of California, San Francisco
Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant University of California, San Francisco
Susan J. Little
Susan J. Little University of California, San Diego
Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Jeffrey N. Martin
Jeffrey N. Martin University of California, San Francisco
Teri Liegler
Teri Liegler University of California, San Francisco

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