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Peter Henrik Andersen

Peter Henrik Andersen

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Immunology

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Citations
19325
World Ranking
4019
National Ranking
39

Overview

Peter Henrik Andersen is affiliated with the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, immunology, and microbiology, focusing particularly on infectious diseases and immune system responses.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Within these, their work is concentrated in subfields such as:

  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Microbiology

The core topics of their research cover:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Cervical Cancer and HPV Research

They have published extensively in a variety of research venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • npj Vaccines
  • Source(s) - Arts Civilisation et Histoire de l'Europe
  • Nature Communications
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Henrik Andersen include:

  • A Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific subunit vaccine that provides synergistic immunity upon co-administration with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A phase 1b randomized study of the safety and immunological responses to vaccination with H4:IC31, H56:IC31, and BCG revaccination in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-uninfected adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa, 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • Vaccine Adjuvants Differentially Affect Kinetics of Antibody and Germinal Center Responses, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Chitin-derived polymer deacetylation regulates mitochondrial reactive oxygen species dependent cGAS-STING and NLRP3 inflammasome activation, 2021, Biomaterials
  • Parenteral vaccination protects against transcervical infection with Chlamydia trachomatis and generate tissue-resident T cells post-challenge, 2020, npj Vaccines

Among frequent collaborative partners are:

  • Ida Rosenkrands
  • Dennis Christensen
  • Rasmus Mortensen
  • Frank Follmann
  • Helena Strand Clemmensen

Best Publications

  • Specific immune-based diagnosis of tuberculosis

    P Andersen;ME Munk;JM Pollock;TM Doherty

  • The success and failure of BCG - implications for a novel tuberculosis vaccine.

    Peter Andersen;T. Mark Doherty

  • Purification and characterization of a low-molecular-mass T-cell antigen secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Anne L. Sørensen;Sadamu Nagai;Gunnar Houen;Peter Andersen

  • Comparison of T-cell-based assay with tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a school tuberculosis outbreak

    Katie Ewer;Jonathan Deeks;Lydia Alvarez;Gerry Bryant

  • Evidence for occurrence of the ESAT-6 protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and virulent Mycobacterium bovis and for its absence in Mycobacterium bovis BCG.

    M Harboe;T Oettinger;H G Wiker;I Rosenkrands

  • A multistage tuberculosis vaccine that confers efficient protection before and after exposure

    Claus Aagaard;Truc Hoang;Jes Dietrich;Pere-Joan Cardona

  • Effective vaccination of mice against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection with a soluble mixture of secreted mycobacterial proteins.

    P Andersen

  • Failure of the Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine: some species of environmental mycobacteria block multiplication of BCG and induction of protective immunity to tuberculosis

    Lise Brandt;Joana Feino Cunha;Anja Weinreich Olsen;Ben Chilima;Ben Chilima

  • Comparison of tuberculin skin test and new specific blood test in tuberculosis contacts

    Inger Brock;Karin Weldingh;Troels Lillebaek;Frank Follmann

  • Cutting edge: Mincle is essential for recognition and adjuvanticity of the mycobacterial cord factor and its synthetic analog trehalose-dibehenate.

    Hanne Schoenen;Barbara Bodendorfer;Kelly Hitchens;Silvia Manzanero

  • T Cell Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    I M Orme;P Andersen;W H Boom

  • Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Based on the Two Specific Antigens ESAT-6 and CFP10

    Laurens A. H. van Pinxteren;Pernille Ravn;Else Marie Agger;John Pollock

  • Recall of long-lived immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice.

    P Andersen;A B Andersen;A L Sørensen;S Nagai

  • Control of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is dependent on CD8 T cells

    Laurens A.H. van Pinxteren;Joseph P. Cassidy;Birgitte H. C. Smedegaard;Else M. Agger

  • ESAT-6 Subunit Vaccination against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Lise Brandt;Martin Elhay;Ida Rosenkrands;Erik B. Lindblad

  • Protection of Mice with a Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccine Based on a Fusion Protein of Antigen 85B and ESAT-6

    Anja Weinreich Olsen;Laurens A. H. van Pinxteren;Limei Meng Okkels;Peter Birk Rasmussen

  • Human T Cell Responses to the ESAT-6 Antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Pernille Ravn;Abebech Demissie;Tewodros Eguale;Hailu Wondwosson

  • Proteins released from Mycobacterium tuberculosis during growth.

    P Andersen;D Askgaard;L Ljungqvist;J Bennedsen

  • Comparative evaluation of low-molecular-mass proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis identifies members of the ESAT-6 family as immunodominant T-cell antigens.

    Rikke Louise Vinther Skjøt;Thomas Oettinger;Ida Rosenkrands;Pernille Ravn

  • ESAT-6 proteins: protective antigens and virulence factors?

    Priscille Brodin;Ida Rosenkrands;Peter Andersen;Stewart T. Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Else Marie Agger
Else Marie Agger University of Copenhagen
Ida Rosenkrands
Ida Rosenkrands Statens Serum Institut
Jon S. Friedland
Jon S. Friedland St George's, University of London
T. Mark Doherty
T. Mark Doherty Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Marie Norredam
Marie Norredam University of Copenhagen
Gary K. Schoolnik
Gary K. Schoolnik Stanford University
Abu Salim Mustafa
Abu Salim Mustafa Kuwait University
John M. Pollock
John M. Pollock Government of the United Kingdom
Kåre Mølbak
Kåre Mølbak Statens Serum Institut
Lars Peter Nielsen
Lars Peter Nielsen Aarhus University

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