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Jürg Böni is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research portfolio focused primarily on Medicine, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Virology, and Epidemiology. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields including Immunology and Microbiology, with a detailed focus on subfields such as Hepatology and General Health Professions.

The scientist's main research topics include HIV Research and Treatment, encompassing HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, as well as HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment. Other prominent areas of focus cover HIV, Drug Use, and Sexual Risk behaviors, along with SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research and detection. Additionally, they have contributed to the study of Hepatitis C virus research.

Jürg Böni has published extensively in various scientific venues. Some of the most frequent journals where their work appears include:

  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Viruses
  • Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Böni include Roger D. Kouyos, Huldrych F. Günthard, Enos Bernasconi, Dominique L. Braun, and Matthias Cavassini.

Some recent representative publications of Jürg Böni are:

  • Cohort Profile Update: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS), 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands, 2022, Science
  • A Treatment-as-Prevention Trial to Eliminate Hepatitis C Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • High Efficacy of Saliva in Detecting SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR in Adults and Children, 2021, Microorganisms
  • Multifactorial seroprofiling dissects the contribution of pre-existing human coronaviruses responses to SARS-CoV-2 immunity, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A human endogenous retroviral superantigen as candidate autoimmune gene in type I diabetes.

    Bernard Conrad;Richard Nicolas Weissmahr;Jürg Böni;Rosanna Arcari

  • HIV rebounds from latently infected cells, rather than from continuing low-level replication.

    Beda Joos;Marek Fischer;Herbert Kuster;Satish K. Pillai

  • Ultrasensitive retrovirus detection by a reverse transcriptase assay based on product enhancement.

    Halina Pyra;Jurg Boni;Jorg Schupbach

  • Phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of caprine and ovine lentiviruses based on 104 new isolates: evidence for regular sheep-to-goat transmission and worldwide propagation through livestock trade.

    Cyril Shah;Jürg Böni;Jon B Huder;Hans-Rudolf Vogt

  • Estimating the Basic Reproductive Number from Viral Sequence Data

    Tanja Stadler;Roger Kouyos;Viktor von Wyl;Sabine Yerly

  • Molecular Epidemiology Reveals Long-Term Changes in HIV Type 1 Subtype B Transmission in Switzerland

    Roger D. Kouyos;Viktor von Wyl;Sabine Yerly;Jürg Böni

  • Determinants of HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibody induction

    Peter Rusert;Roger D Kouyos;Claus Kadelka;Hanna Ebner

  • Determinants of HIV-1 reservoir size and long-term dynamics during suppressive ART.

    Nadine Bachmann;Chantal von Siebenthal;Valentina Vongrad;Teja Turk

  • Direct Evidence for Natural Transmission of Small-Ruminant Lentiviruses of Subtype A4 from Goats to Sheep and Vice Versa

    Cyril Shah;Jon B. Huder;Jürg Böni;Marietta Schönmann

  • Transmission of HIV-1 drug resistance in Switzerland: a 10-year molecular epidemiology survey

    Sabine Yerly;Viktor von Wyl;Bruno Ledergerber;Jürg Böni

  • Ambiguous Nucleotide Calls From Population-based Sequencing of HIV-1 are a Marker for Viral Diversity and the Age of Infection

    Roger D Kouyos;Viktor von Wyl;Sabine Yerly;Jürg Böni

  • Emergence of HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Previously Untreated Patients Initiating Combination Antiretroviral Treatment: A Comparison of Different Regimen Types

    Viktor von Wyl;Sabine Yerly;Jürg Böni;Philippe Bürgisser

  • Low-frequency drug-resistant HIV-1 and risk of virological failure to first-line NNRTI-based ART: a multicohort European case–control study using centralized ultrasensitive 454 pyrosequencing

    Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri;Marc Noguera-Julian;Francesca Di Giallonardo;Rob Schuurman

  • Phylogenetic Approach Reveals That Virus Genotype Largely Determines HIV Set-Point Viral Load

    Samuel Alizon;Viktor von Wyl;Tanja Stadler;Roger D. Kouyos

  • Rapid feline immunodeficiency virus provirus quantitation by polymerase chain reaction using the TaqMan fluorogenic real-time detection system.

    Christian M Leutenegger;D Klein;Regina Hofmann-Lehmann;Caroline N Mislin

  • Heat-mediated immune complex dissociation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay signal amplification render p24 antigen detection in plasma as sensitive as HIV-1 RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction

    J Schüpbach;M Flepp;D Pontelli;Z Tomasik

  • Inferring epidemic contact structure from phylogenetic trees.

    Gabriel E. Leventhal;Roger D. Kouyos;Tanja Stadler;Viktor von Wyl

  • Prospective Evaluation of Amplification-Boosted ELISA for Heat-Denatured p24 Antigen for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Pediatric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection

    David Nadal;Jürg Böni;Christian Kind;Oliviero E. Varnier

  • Performance of five different assays for the quantification of viral load in persons infected with various subtypes of HIV-1.

    Philippe Bürgisser;Pietro Vernazza;Markus Flepp;Jürg Böni

  • high Frequency of Non-b Subtypes in Newly Diagnosed Hiv-1 Infections in Switzerland

    Jürg Böni;Halina Pyra;Martin Gebhardt;Luc Perrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Huldrych F. Günthard
Huldrych F. Günthard University of Zurich
Thomas Klimkait
Thomas Klimkait University of Basel
Sabine Yerly
Sabine Yerly University of Geneva
Enos Bernasconi
Enos Bernasconi Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Roger D. Kouyos
Roger D. Kouyos University of Zurich
Jörg Schüpbach
Jörg Schüpbach University of Zurich
Matthias Cavassini
Matthias Cavassini University of Lausanne
Manuel Battegay
Manuel Battegay University Hospital of Basel
Pietro Vernazza
Pietro Vernazza University of St. Gallen
Andri Rauch
Andri Rauch University of Bern

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