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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Hilton Whittle is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields including Immunology, Epidemiology, and Health.

Whittle's research primarily addresses topics related to immune responses and vaccinations, virology and viral diseases, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy. Additional areas of their work involve cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, herpesvirus infections and treatments, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and immune response and inflammation.

Frequent coauthors in Whittle's work include Ane Bærent Fisker, Cesário Martins, Peter Aaby, Christine Stabell Benn, and Sebastian Nielsen, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their research projects.

Whittle has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers published in notable venues, including:

  • Effect of early two-dose measles vaccination on childhood mortality and modification by maternal measles antibody in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: A single-centre open-label randomised controlled trial (2022, EClinicalMedicine)
  • Measles Vaccination in Presence of Measles Antibody May Enhance Child Survival (2020, Frontiers in Pediatrics)
  • Limited Impact of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection in African Infants on Vaccine-Specific Responses Following Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Measles Vaccination (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • Contradictory mortality results in early 2-dose measles vaccine trials: interactions with oral polio vaccine may explain differences (2024, International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • Sex-Differential Impact of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection on In Vitro Reactivity to Toll-Like Receptor 2, 4 and 7/8 Stimulation in Gambian Infants (2020, Vaccines)

These publications illustrate Whittle's involvement in vaccine-related clinical trials and immunological studies, with a particular attention to measles vaccination efficacy, influence of maternal antibodies, and immune system responses in infants exposed to viral infections.

The venues where Whittle frequently publishes include EClinicalMedicine, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Frontiers in Immunology, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Vaccines.

Whittle has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, acknowledging their contributions to the medical research community.

Best Publications

  • Variations in the NRAMP1 gene and susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africans.

    Richard Bellamy;Cyril Ruwende;Tumani Corrah;Keith P.W.J. McAdam

  • HIV-specific cytotoxic T-cells in HIV-exposed but uninfected Gambian women

    Sarah Rowland-Jones;Julian Sutton;Koya Ariyoshi;Tao Dong

  • Molecular analysis of the association of HLA-B53 and resistance to severe malaria.

    A V Hill;J Elvin;A C Willis;M Aidoo

  • Randomized Trial of BCG Vaccination at Birth to Low-Birth-Weight Children: Beneficial Nonspecific Effects in the Neonatal Period?

    Peter Aaby;Adam Roth;Adam Roth;Henrik Ravn;Bitiguida Mutna Napirna

  • Tuberculosis and Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Africans and Variation in the Vitamin D Receptor Gene

    R. Bellamy;C. Ruwende;T. Corrah;K. P. W. J. McAdam

  • The influence of age on the development of the hepatitis B carrier state

    W J Edmunds;G F Medley;D J Nokes;A J Hall

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia: a retrospective analysis

    Serign J Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine;Jamie Erskine;Samuel E Anya;Samuel E Anya

  • What Level of Hepatitis B Antibody Is Protective

    A D Jack;A J Hall;N Maine;M Mendy

  • Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in Africans: A genome-wide scan

    Richard Bellamy;Nulda Beyers;Keith P. W. J. McAdam;Cyril Ruwende

  • Non-specific beneficial effect of measles immunisation: analysis of mortality studies from developing countries

    Peter Aaby;Badara Samb;Francois Simondon;Awa Marie Coll Seck

  • BCG scar and positive tuberculin reaction associated with reduced child mortality in West Africa. A non-specific beneficial effect of BCG?

    May-Lill Garly;Cesário Lourenco Martins;Carlitos Balé;Mamadu Aliu Baldé

  • Prevalence of neutralizing antibodies to adenoviral serotypes 5 and 35 in the adult populations of The Gambia, South Africa, and the United States.

    Edward Nwanegbo;Eftyhia Vardas;Wentao Gao;Hilton Whittle

  • Influence of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin on antibody and cytokine responses to human neonatal vaccination

    Martin O. C. Ota;Johan Vekemans;Susanna E. Schlegel-Haueter;Katherine Fielding

  • Association of Malaria Parasite Population Structure, HLA, and Immunological Antagonism

    Sarah C. Gilbert;Magdalena Plebanski;Sunetra Gupta;Joanne Morris

  • T-cell control of Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells is lost during P. falciparum malaria.

    Hilton C. Whittle;Jim Brown;Kevin Marsh;Brian M. Greenwood

  • Non-specific effects of standard measles vaccine at 4.5 and 9 months of age on childhood mortality: randomised controlled trial

    Peter Aaby;Cesário L Martins;May-Lill Garly;Carlito Balé

  • Randomised controlled trial of single-dose azithromycin in treatment of trachoma

    R. L. Bailey;P. Arullendran;H. C. Whittle;D. C. W. Mabey

  • Small randomized trial among low-birth-weight children receiving bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination at first health center contact.

    Sofie Biering-Sørensen;Peter Aaby;Bitiguida Mutna Napirna;Adam Roth

  • Mature CD8+ T lymphocyte response to viral infection during fetal life

    Arnaud Marchant;Victor Appay;Marianne van der Sande;Nicolas Dulphy

  • Polyfunctional T cell responses are a hallmark of HIV-2 infection

    Melody G. Duvall;Melody G. Duvall;Melissa Lynn Precopio;David A. Ambrozak;Assan Jaye

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia : a retrospective analysis. Commentary

    Peter Byass;Serign J. Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Aaby
Peter Aaby University of Southern Denmark
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Sarah Rowland-Jones University of Sheffield
Christine Stabell Benn
Christine Stabell Benn University of Southern Denmark
Andrew J. Hall
Andrew J. Hall University of Leeds
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Tumani Corrah
Tumani Corrah Medical Research Council
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Matthew Cotten
Matthew Cotten Wellcome Sanger Institute
Arnaud Marchant
Arnaud Marchant Université Libre de Bruxelles
David Mabey
David Mabey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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