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Overview

Myra O. McClure is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to the subfields of Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Modeling and Simulation, Virology, and Hematology.

Their main research topics encompass:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Among their recent papers are several published in prominent journals, including:

  • "Cross-reactive memory T cells associate with protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in COVID-19 contacts" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "Clinical and laboratory evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for use in a national COVID-19 seroprevalence survey" (2020) in Thorax
  • "SARS-CoV-2 can recruit a heme metabolite to evade antibody immunity" (2021) in Science Advances
  • "Antiretroviral therapy alone versus antiretroviral therapy with a kick and kill approach, on measures of the HIV reservoir in participants with recent HIV infection (the RIVER trial): a phase 2, randomised trial" (2020) in The Lancet
  • "SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for possible use in national covid-19 seroprevalence surveys (React 2): diagnostic accuracy study" (2021) in BMJ

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Richard S. Tedder
  • Eleanor Parker
  • Carolina Rosadas
  • Graham P. Taylor
  • Maryam Khan

They have published multiple papers in several key scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Virological Methods
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of Infection
  • Scientific Reports

Myra O. McClure's scholarly output demonstrates active engagement in infectious disease research, particularly related to SARS-CoV-2 and HIV/AIDS. Their work frequently addresses diagnostic assay evaluation, immunological mechanisms, and epidemiological study designs, reflecting a broad approach to understanding and managing viral infections through clinical and laboratory investigations.

Best Publications

  • Human immunodeficiency virus infection of CD4-bearing cells occurs by a pH-independent mechanism.

    M. O. McClure;M. Marsh;R. A. Weiss

  • No evidence of pig DNA or retroviral infection in patients with short-term extracorporeal connection to pig kidneys.

    Clive Patience;Gillian S Patton;Yasuhiro Takeuchi;Robin A Weiss

  • Identification of Gammaretroviruses Constitutively Released from Cell Lines Used for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Research

    Yasuhiro Takeuchi;Myra O. McClure;Massimo Pizzato

  • The pH independence of mammalian retrovirus infection.

    Myra O. McClure;Maja A. Sommerfelt;Mark Marsh;Robin A. Weiss

  • D-type retroviral vectors, based on mpmv

    Myra Olga Mcclure;Richard Geoffrey Vile

  • Foamy Virus Bet Proteins Function as Novel Inhibitors of the APOBEC3 Family of Innate Antiretroviral Defense Factors

    Rebecca A. Russell;Heather L. Wiegand;Michael D. Moore;Alexandra Schäfer

  • Delayed anti-HCV antibody response in HIV-positive men acutely infected with HCV.

    Emma C Thomson;Eleni Nastouli;Janice Main;Peter Karayiannis

  • Human foamy virus reverse transcription that occurs late in the viral replication cycle.

    A Moebes;J Enssle;P D Bieniasz;M Heinkelein

  • Function of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in corneal allograft rejection and prolongation of allograft survival by over-expression

    Sven C. Beutelspacher;Radhakrishna Pillai;Martin P. Watson;Peng H. Tan

  • Predicting spontaneous clearance of acute hepatitis C virus in a large cohort of HIV-1-infected men

    Emma C Thomson;Vicki M Fleming;Janice Main;Paul Klenerman

  • A one-step SYBR Green I-based product-enhanced reverse transcriptase assay for the quantitation of retroviruses in cell culture supernatants.

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  • Reductions in HIV transmission risk behaviour following diagnosis of primary HIV infection: a cohort of high-risk men who have sex with men.

    Julie Fox;Peter J White;Peter J White;Neil Macdonald;Jonathan Weber

  • Inhibition of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication in Primary Macrophages by Using Tat- or CCR5-Specific Small Interfering RNAs Expressed from a Lentivirus Vector

    Ming-Ta M. Lee;Glen A. Coburn;Myra O. McClure;Bryan R. Cullen

  • Modulation of human dendritic-cell function following transduction with viral vectors: implications for gene therapy.

    Peng H. Tan;Sven C. Beutelspacher;Shao-An Xue;Yao-He Wang

  • Mouse DNA contamination in human tissue tested for XMRV

    Mark J Robinson;Otto W Erlwein;Steve Kaye;Jonathan Weber

  • Comparative response of African HIV-1-infected individuals to highly active antiretroviral therapy.

    Alexander J Frater;David T Dunn;Alison J Beardall;Koya Ariyoshi

  • HIV infection of primate lymphocytes and conservation of the CD4 receptor

    Myra O. McClure;Quentin J. Sattentau;Peter C. L. Beverley;John P. Hearn

  • Clinical and laboratory evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for use in a national COVID-19 seroprevalence survey.

    Barnaby Flower;Jonathan C Brown;Bryony Simmons;Maya Moshe

  • SARS-CoV-2 can recruit a heme metabolite to evade antibody immunity.

    Annachiara Rosa;Valerie E. Pye;Carl Graham;Luke Muir

  • Cell cycle dependence of foamy retrovirus infection.

    P D Bieniasz;R A Weiss;M O McClure

  • Pgp3 Antibody Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, a Sensitive and Specific Assay for Seroepidemiological Analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection

    Gillian S. Wills;Patrick J. Horner;Rosy Reynolds;Anne M. Johnson

  • Duration of HIV-1 viral suppression on cessation of antiretroviral therapy in primary infection correlates with time on therapy.

    Wolfgang Stöhr;Sarah Fidler;Myra McClure;Jonathan Weber

  • B-cell depletion reveals a role for antibodies in the control of chronic HIV-1 infection.

    Kuan-Hsiang G Huang;David Bonsall;Aris Katzourakis;Emma C Thomson

  • A Comparative Study of Higher Primate Foamy Viruses, Including a New Virus from a Gorilla

    Paul D. Bieniasz;Axel Rethwilm;Richard Pitman;Muthiah D. Daniel

  • Ubiquitin-dependent virus particle budding without viral protein ubiquitination

    Maria Zhadina;Myra O. McClure;Marc C. Johnson;Paul D. Bieniasz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Weber
Jonathan Weber Imperial College London
Robin A. Weiss
Robin A. Weiss University College London
Axel Rethwilm
Axel Rethwilm University of Würzburg
Mark C. Poznansky
Mark C. Poznansky Harvard University
Graham P. Taylor
Graham P. Taylor Imperial College London
Mark Marsh
Mark Marsh University College London
Thomas F. Schulz
Thomas F. Schulz Hannover Medical School
Adriano Aguzzi
Adriano Aguzzi University of Zurich
Paul T. Francis
Paul T. Francis University of Exeter
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford

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