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Eric J. Arts is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to immunology and microbiology. A substantial portion of their work addresses infectious diseases, virology, and epidemiology. Molecular biology and immunology also feature as relevant subfields in their studies.

The scientist's research covers a wide array of topics, particularly related to viral infections and treatments. The main subjects they investigate include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Eric J. Arts has published in numerous scientific venues, frequently contributing to the following journals:

  • PLoS Pathogens
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Virology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Viral disinfection using nonthermal plasma: A critical review and perspectives on the plasma-catalysis system," published in 2022 in Chemosphere
  • "Dolutegravir response in antiretroviral therapy naïve and experienced patients with M184V/I: Impact in low-and middle-income settings," published in 2021 in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "A vesicular stomatitis virus-based prime-boost vaccination strategy induces potent and protective neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2," published in 2021 in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Accumulation of integrase strand transfer inhibitor resistance mutations confers high-level resistance to dolutegravir in non-B subtype HIV-1 strains from patients failing raltegravir in Uganda," published in 2020 in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • "A targeted reactivation of latent HIV-1 using an activator vector in patient samples from acute infection," published in 2020 in EBioMedicine

They collaborate frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Richard M. Gibson
  • Stephen D. Barr
  • Emmanuel Ndashimye
  • Yue Li
  • Art F. Y. Poon

Best Publications

  • HIV-1 Antiretroviral Drug Therapy

    Eric J. Arts;Daria J. Hazuda

  • Tracking a century of global expansion and evolution of HIV to drive understanding and to combat disease

    Denis M Tebit;Eric J Arts

  • A Dual Infection/Competition Assay Shows a Correlation between Ex Vivo Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Fitness and Disease Progression

    Miguel E. Quiñones-Mateu;Sarah C. Ball;Andre J. Marozsan;Vincent S. Torre

  • The Replicative Fitness of Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Group M, HIV-1 Group O, and HIV-2 Isolates

    Kevin K. Ariën;Awet Abraha;Miguel E. Quiñones-Mateu;Luc Kestens

  • HLA-B57/B*5801 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Elite Controllers Select for Rare Gag Variants Associated with Reduced Viral Replication Capacity and Strong Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Recognition.

    Toshiyuki Miura;Mark A. Brockman;Arne Schneidewind;Michael Lobritz

  • Is HIV-1 evolving to a less virulent form in humans?

    Kevin K. Ariën;Guido Vanham;Eric J. Arts

  • Comparing the Ex Vivo Fitness of CCR5-Tropic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates of Subtypes B and C

    Sarah C. Ball;Awet Abraha;Kalonji R. Collins;Andre J. Marozsan

  • Changes in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 fitness and genetic diversity during disease progression

    Ryan M. Troyer;Kalonji R. Collins;Awet Abraha;Erika Fraundorf

  • Variable fitness impact of HIV-1 escape mutations to cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response.

    Ryan M. Troyer;John McNevin;Yi Liu;Shao Chong Zhang

  • Impact of tuberculosis on HIV-1 replication, diversity, and disease progression.

    Kalonji R Collins;Miguel E Quiñones-Mateu;Zahra Toossi;Eric J Arts

  • Mechanisms of nucleoside analog antiviral activity and resistance during human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcription.

    E J Arts;M A Wainberg

  • Fitness of drug resistant HIV-1: methodology and clinical implications

    Miguel E Quiñones-Mateu;Eric J Arts

  • Human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 nucleocapsid protein (NCp7) directs specific initiation of minus-strand DNA synthesis primed by human tRNA(Lys3) in vitro: studies of viral RNA molecules mutated in regions that flank the primer binding site.

    X Li;Y Quan;E J Arts;Z Li

  • Comparison of deoxyoligonucleotide and tRNA(Lys-3) as primers in an endogenous human immunodeficiency virus-1 in vitro reverse transcription/template-switching reaction.

    E. J. Arts;Xuguang Li;Zhengxian Gu;L. Kleiman

  • Effects of alterations of primer-binding site sequences on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication.

    Xuguang Li;Johnson Mak;Eric J. Arts;Zhengxian Gu

  • CCR5- and CXCR4-Tropic Subtype C Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates Have a Lower Level of Pathogenic Fitness than Other Dominant Group M Subtypes: Implications for the Epidemic

    Awet Abraha;Immaculate L. Nankya;Richard Gibson;Korey Demers

  • HIV diversity, recombination and disease progression: how does fitness "fit" into the puzzle?

    Denis M Tebit;Immaculate Nankya;Eric J Arts;Yong Gao

  • Relationships between Infectious Titer, Capsid Protein Levels, and Reverse Transcriptase Activities of Diverse Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates

    Andre J. Marozsan;Erika Fraundorf;Awet Abraha;Heather Baird

  • Restoration of tRNA-primed()-Strand DNA Synthesis to an HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Mutant with Extended tRNAs IMPLICATIONS FOR RETROVIRAL REPLICATION

    Eric J. Arts;Madhumita Ghosh;Pamela S. Jacques;Bernard Ehresmann

  • Differences in the Fitness of Two Diverse Wild-Type Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates Are Related to the Efficiency of Cell Binding and Entry

    Andre J. Marozsan;Dawn M. Moore;Michael A. Lobritz;Erika Fraundorf

  • HLA-B57/B*5801 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 elite controllers select for rare gag variants associated with reduced viral replication capacity and strong cytotoxic T-lymphocyte recognition (Journal of Virology (2009) 83, 6, (2743-2755))

    Toshiyuki Miura;Mark A. Brockman;Arne Schneidewind;Michael Lobritz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Wainberg
Mark A. Wainberg McGill University
Robert A. Salata
Robert A. Salata Case Western Reserve University
Cissy Kityo
Cissy Kityo Joint Clinical Research Centre
Peter Mugyenyi
Peter Mugyenyi Uganda National Academy of Sciences
Lawrence Kleiman
Lawrence Kleiman McGill University
Zahra Toossi
Zahra Toossi Case Western Reserve University
James I. Mullins
James I. Mullins University of Washington
David Robertson
David Robertson Vanderbilt University
Michael A. Parniak
Michael A. Parniak University of Pittsburgh
Johnson Mak
Johnson Mak Griffith University

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