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Katherine Luzuriaga is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their subfields of expertise include infectious diseases, immunology, virology, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of their work concentrate on HIV research and treatment, immune cell function and interaction, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders.

Frequent publication venues where their research appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Infectious Diseases, Annals of Internal Medicine, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, and the International Journal of Medical and Surgical Sciences.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society Global Scientific Strategy 2021, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Comparison of Rapid Antigen Tests' Performance Between Delta and Omicron Variants of SARS-CoV-2, 2022, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Performance of Rapid Antigen Tests to Detect Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2023, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • SwarmTCR: a computational approach to predict the specificity of T cell receptors, 2021, BMC Bioinformatics
  • Epstein-Barr Virus Epitope-Major Histocompatibility Complex Interaction Combined with Convergent Recombination Drives Selection of Diverse T Cell Receptor α and β Repertoires, 2020, mBio

They frequently collaborate with researchers such as Apurv Soni, Nathaniel Hafer, David D. McManus, Carly Herbert, and John Broach.

Best Publications

  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus.

    Wenhui Li;Michael J. Moore;Natalya Vasilieva;Jianhua Sui

  • Lymphocyte subsets in healthy children from birth through 18 years of age : The pediatric AIDS clinical trials group P1009 study

    William T. Shearer;Howard M. Rosenblatt;Rebecca S. Gelman;Rebecca Oyomopito

  • Absence of Detectable HIV-1 Viremia after Treatment Cessation in an Infant

    Deborah Persaud;Carrie Ziemniak;Ya Hui Chen

  • Persistence of episomal HIV-1 infection intermediates in patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy.

    Mark E. Sharkey;Ian Teo;Thomas Greenough;Natalia Sharova

  • Proposed definitions for in utero versus intrapartum transmission of HIV-1.

    Y J Bryson;K Luzuriaga;J L Sullivan;D W Wara

  • Demonstration of the Burkitt's lymphoma Epstein-Barr virus phenotype in dividing latently infected memory cells in vivo

    Donna Hochberg;Jaap M. Middeldorp;Michelle D. Catalina;John L. Sullivan

  • Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society Global Scientific Strategy 2021.

    Steven G. Deeks;Nancie Archin;Paula Cannon;Simon Collins

  • Viremic relapse after HIV-1 remission in a perinatally infected child

    Katherine Luzuriaga;Carrie Ziemniak;Keri B. Sanborn

  • Combination treatment with zidovudine, didanosine, and nevirapine in infants with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

    Katherine Luzuriaga;Yvonne J. Bryson;Paul A. Krogstad;James E. Robinson

  • Early Therapy of Vertical Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Infection: Control of Viral Replication and Absence of Persistent HIV-1-Specific Immune Responses

    Katherine Luzuriaga;Margaret M. McManus;Michelle D. Catalina;Shane Renee Mayack

  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2: a functional receptor for SARS coronavirus.

    J. H. Kuhn;W. Li;H. Choe;M. Farzan

  • Acute Infection with Epstein-Barr Virus Targets and Overwhelms the Peripheral Memory B-Cell Compartment with Resting, Latently Infected Cells

    Donna Hochberg;Tatyana Souza;Michelle D. Catalina;John L. Sullivan

  • HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in the first year of life.

    K Luzuriaga;D Holmes;A Hereema;J Wong

  • Cross-reactive influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells contribute to lymphoproliferation in Epstein-Barr virus-associated infectious mononucleosis.

    Shalyn Catherine Clute;Levi B. Watkin;Markus Cornberg;Yuri N. Naumov

  • Development and Characterization of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—Associated Coronavirus—Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibody That Provides Effective Immunoprophylaxis in Mice

    Thomas C. Greenough;Gregory J. Babcock;Anjeanette Roberts;Hector J. Hernandez

  • A Trial of Three Antiretroviral Regimens in HIV-1–Infected Children

    Katherine Luzuriaga;Margaret McManus;Lynne Mofenson;Paula Britto

  • A Polymorphism in the Regulatory Region of the CC-Chemokine Receptor 5 Gene Influences Perinatal Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 to African-American Infants

    Leondios G. Kostrikis;Avidan U. Neumann;Bruce Thomson;Bette T. Korber

  • On the dynamics of acute EBV infection and the pathogenesis of infectious mononucleosis.

    Vey Hadinoto;Michael Shapiro;Thomas C. Greenough;John L. Sullivan

  • Challenges in the Elimination of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection

    Katherine Luzuriaga;Lynne M Mofenson

  • Peripheral B cells latently infected with Epstein-Barr virus display molecular hallmarks of classical antigen-selected memory B cells.

    Tatyana A. Souza;B. David Stollar;John L. Sullivan;Katherine Luzuriaga

  • Human cytomegalovirus proteins pp65 and immediate early protein 1 are common targets for CD8+ T cell responses in children with congenital or postnatal human cytomegalovirus infection.

    Laura L. Gibson;Giampiero Piccinini;Daniele Lilleri;Maria Grazia Revello

  • Limiting dilution analysis of cytotoxic T lymphocytes to human immunodeficiency virus gag antigens in infected persons: in vitro quantitation of effector cell populations with p17 and p24 specificities.

    Richard A. Koup;Cheryl A. Pikora;Katherine Luzuriaga;Doreen B. Brettler

  • The Ariel Project: A prospective cohort study of maternal-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in the era of maternal antiretroviral therapy

    Russell B. Van Dyke;Bette T. Korber;Edwina Popek;Catherine Macken

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Liisa K. Selin
Liisa K. Selin University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Paul R. Clapham
Paul R. Clapham University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
David A. Thorley-Lawson
David A. Thorley-Lawson Tufts University
Yvonne J. Bryson
Yvonne J. Bryson University of California, Los Angeles
William Borkowsky
William Borkowsky New York University
Ram Yogev
Ram Yogev Northwestern University
Lynne M. Mofenson
Lynne M. Mofenson Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Andrew Wiznia
Andrew Wiznia Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Douglas D. Richman
Douglas D. Richman University of California, San Diego

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