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Erwin Schurr is affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre in Canada and has an extensive publication record in the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including infectious diseases, epidemiology, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics.

Their research topics primarily cover Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, leprosy research and treatment, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and HIV research and treatment.

Notable recent papers include:

  • A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19, 2022, Nature
  • Cell-free DNA tissues of origin by methylation profiling reveals significant cell, tissue, and organ-specific injury related to COVID-19 severity, 2021, Med
  • An observational study identifying highly tuberculosis-exposed, HIV-1-positive but persistently TB, tuberculin and IGRA negative persons with M. tuberculosis specific antibodies in Cape Town, South Africa, 2020, EBioMedicine
  • Human alveolar macrophage metabolism is compromised during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, 2023, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Genome-wide association study of resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection identifies a locus at 10q26.2 in three distinct populations, 2021, PLoS Genetics

Frequent co-authors with whom Erwin Schurr has collaborated include Marianna Orlova, Vinicius M. Fava, Monica Dallmann-Sauer, Aurélie Cobat, and Eileen G. Hoal.

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Best Publications

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

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  • Dysferlin, a novel skeletal muscle gene, is mutated in Miyoshi myopathy and limb girdle muscular dystrophy

    Jing Liu;Masashi Aoki;Isabel Illa;Chenyan Wu

  • Susceptibility to leprosy is associated with PARK2 and PACRG.

    Marcelo T. Mira;Marcelo T. Mira;Alexandre Alcaïs;Nguyen Van Thuc;Milton O. Moraes

  • Discrete mutations introduced in the predicted nucleotide-binding sites of the mdr1 gene abolish its ability to confer multidrug resistance.

    M Azzaria;E Schurr;P Gros

  • Susceptibility to Leprosy Is Linked to the Human NRAMP1 Gene

    Laurent Abel;Fabio O. Sánchez;Jean Oberti;Nguyen V. Thuc

  • Human natural resistance-associated macrophage protein: cDNA cloning, chromosomal mapping, genomic organization, and tissue-specific expression.

    Mathieu Cellier;Gregory Govoni;Silvia Vidal;Tony Kwan

  • Association of vitamin D receptor genetic variants with susceptibility to asthma and atopy.

    Audrey H. Poon;Catherine Laprise;Mathieu Lemire;Alexandre Montpetit

  • Haplotype mapping and sequence analysis of the mouse Nramp gene predict susceptibility to infection with intracellular parasites.

    Danielle Malo;Kyle Vogan;Silvia Vidal;Jinxin Hu

  • Immunological mechanisms of human resistance to persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

    Jason D. Simmons;Catherine Marie Stein;Chetan Seshadri;Monica Campo

  • Linkage of tuberculosis to chromosome 2q35 loci, including NRAMP1, in a large aboriginal Canadian family.

    Celia M.T. Greenwood;T. Mary Fujiwara;T. Mary Fujiwara;Lucy J. Boothroyd;Mark A. Miller

  • Chromosome 6q25 is linked to susceptibility to leprosy in a Vietnamese population.

    Marcelo T Mira;Alexandre Alcaïs;Nguyen Van Thuc;Vu Hong Thai

  • Human genetics of tuberculosis: a long and winding road

    Laurent Abel;Jamila El-Baghdadi;Ahmed Aziz Bousfiha;Jean-Laurent Casanova;Jean-Laurent Casanova;Jean-Laurent Casanova

  • Infection genomics: Nramp1 as a major determinant of natural resistance to intracellular infections.

    Emil Skamene;Erwin Schurr;Philippe Gros

  • Stepwise replication identifies a low-producing lymphotoxin-alpha allele as a major risk factor for early-onset leprosy.

    Alexandre Alcaïs;Alexandre Alcaïs;Andrea Alter;Guillemette Antoni;Marianna Orlova

  • Life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood: single-gene inborn errors of immunity?

    Alexandre Alcaïs;Alexandre Alcaïs;Lluis Quintana-Murci;David S. Thaler;Erwin Schurr

  • A Missense LRRK2 Variant Is a Risk Factor for Excessive Inflammatory Responses in Leprosy.

    Vinicius M. Fava;Vinicius M. Fava;Jérémy Manry;Jérémy Manry;Aurélie Cobat;Aurélie Cobat;Marianna Orlova;Marianna Orlova

  • Two loci control tuberculin skin test reactivity in an area hyperendemic for tuberculosis

    Aurelie Cobat;Aurelie Cobat;Caroline J. Gallant;Leah Simkin;Gillian F. Black

  • Bovine natural resistance associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) gene.

    J Feng;Y Li;M Hashad;E Schurr

  • Genetics of human susceptibility to active and latent tuberculosis: present knowledge and future perspectives

    Laurent Abel;Laurent Abel;Laurent Abel;Jacques Fellay;Jacques Fellay;David W Haas;David W Haas;Erwin Schurr

  • Alleles of the NRAMP1 gene are risk factors for pediatric tuberculosis disease

    Suneil Malik;Suneil Malik;Laurent Abel;Heather Tooker;Audrey Poon;Audrey Poon

  • Leprosy as a genetic disease.

    Andrea Alter;Audrey Grant;Audrey Grant;Laurent Abel;Laurent Abel;Laurent Abel;Alexandre Alcaïs;Alexandre Alcaïs;Alexandre Alcaïs

  • Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis.

    Suneil Malik;Erwin Schurr

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Abel
Laurent Abel Université Paris Cité
Aurélie Cobat
Aurélie Cobat Grenoble Alpes University
Philippe Gros
Philippe Gros McGill University
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis
Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis Université Paris Cité
Jacinta Bustamante
Jacinta Bustamante Rockefeller University
Emil Skamene
Emil Skamene McGill University
Marcel A. Behr
Marcel A. Behr McGill University
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan McGill University
Luis B. Barreiro
Luis B. Barreiro University of Chicago

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