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Matthew Cotten is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with an emphasis on infectious diseases.

The major subfields of study in their work include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Animal Science and Zoology

The main research topics covered in their publications are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew Cotten are:

  • "CoV-GLUE: A Web Application for Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variation," 2020, published in Preprints.org
  • "The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance," 2022, published in Science
  • "Field evaluation of the performance of a SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic test in Uganda using nasopharyngeal samples," 2020, published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 lineage A variant (A.23.1) with altered spike protein in Uganda," 2021, published in Nature Microbiology
  • "A SARS-CoV-2 lineage A variant (A.23.1) with altered spike has emerged and is dominating the current Uganda epidemic," 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors working with Matthew Cotten include:

  • My V. T. Phan
  • Charles N. Agoti
  • D. James Nokes
  • Arnold W. Lambisia
  • Pontiano Kaleebu

The scientist has published multiple articles in various venues, with a concentration of work appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Virus Evolution
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

    Abdullah Assiri;Allison McGeer;Trish M. Perl;Connie S. Price

  • Transferrin-polycation conjugates as carriers for DNA uptake into cells

    Ernst Wagner;Martin Zenke;Matt Cotten;Hartmut Beug

  • Influenza virus hemagglutinin HA-2 N-terminal fusogenic peptides augment gene transfer by transferrin-polylysine-DNA complexes: toward a synthetic virus-like gene-transfer vehicle.

    Ernst Wagner;Christian Plank;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten

  • Adenovirus enhancement of transferrin-polylysine-mediated gene delivery.

    David T. Curiel;Santosh Agarwal;Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten

  • Transferrin-polycation-DNA complexes: the effect of polycations on the structure of the complex and DNA delivery to cells.

    Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten;Roland Foisner;Max L. Birnstiel

  • Coupling of adenovirus to transferrin-polylysine/DNA complexes greatly enhances receptor-mediated gene delivery and expression of transfected genes.

    Ernst Wagner;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten;Helen Kirlappos

  • Cell cycle dependence of gene transfer by lipoplex, polyplex and recombinant adenovirus

    S Brunner;T Sauer;S Carotta;M Cotten

  • High-efficiency receptor-mediated delivery of small and large (48 kilobase gene constructs using the endosome-disruption activity of defective or chemically inactivated adenovirus particles

    Matt Cotten;Ernst Wagner;Kurt Zatloukal;Stephen Phillips

  • Transferrin-polycation-mediated introduction of DNA into human leukemic cells: stimulation by agents that affect the survival of transfected DNA or modulate transferrin receptor levels.

    Matt Cotten;Francoise Längle-Rouault;Helen Kirlappos;Ernst Wagner

  • High-efficiency gene transfer mediated by adenovirus coupled to DNA-polylysine complexes.

    David T. Curiel;Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten;Max L. Birnstiel

  • Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

    Gytis Dudas;Gytis Dudas;Luiz Max Carvalho;Trevor Bedford;Andrew J. Tatem

  • Receptor-mediated endocytosis of transferrin-polycation conjugates: an efficient way to introduce DNA into hematopoietic cells.

    Martin Zenke;Peter Steinlein;Ernst Wagner;Matthew Cotten

  • Conjugates for introducing nucleic acid into higher eucaryotic cells

    David T. Curiel;Ping-chuan Hu;Max L. Birnstiel;Matthew Cotten

  • Gene transfer into hepatocytes using asialoglycoprotein receptor mediated endocytosis of DNA complexed with an artificial tetra-antennary galactose ligand.

    Christian Plank;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten;Karl Mechtler

  • Human infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013.

    Ziad A. Memish;Matthew Cotten;Benjamin Meyer;Simon J. Watson

  • An efficient proteomics method to identify the cellular targets of protein kinase inhibitors

    Klaus Godl;Josef Wissing;Alexander Kurtenbach;Peter Habenberger

  • Composition for introducing nucleic acid complexes into higher eucaryotic cells

    David T. Curiel;Max L. Birnstiel;Matthew Cotten;Ernst Wagner

  • Transmission and evolution of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: A descriptive genomic study

    Matthew Cotten;Simon J. Watson;Paul Kellam;Abdullah A. Al-Rabeeah

  • Delivery of drugs, proteins and genes into cells using transferrin as a ligand for receptor-mediated endocytosis

    Ernst Wagner;David T. Curiel;Matt Cotten

  • Mannose polyethylenimine conjugates for targeted DNA delivery into dendritic cells

    Sandra S. Diebold;Margaretha Kursa;Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst Wagner
Ernst Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Max L. Birnstiel
Max L. Birnstiel Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Paul Kellam
Paul Kellam Imperial College London
David T. Curiel
David T. Curiel Washington University in St. Louis
Christian Plank
Christian Plank Technical University of Munich
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Sarah Rowland-Jones University of Sheffield
Hilton Whittle
Hilton Whittle London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marion Koopmans
Marion Koopmans Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lia van der Hoek
Lia van der Hoek University of Amsterdam
Alimuddin Zumla
Alimuddin Zumla University College London

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