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Overview

Walid Heneine is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS, particularly in the development of drug treatments, interventions, and epidemiological studies.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including infectious diseases, virology, epidemiology, microbiology, and physiology.

Research topics frequently explored by Walid Heneine include:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Development and Treatment
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Reproductive Tract Infections Research
  • Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • T-cell and Retrovirus Studies

Walid Heneine has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • J. Gerardo García-Lerma
  • Chuong Dinh
  • James Mitchell
  • Angela Holder
  • Charles Dobard

The scientist's work has appeared in several notable publication venues, with the highest number of articles in EBioMedicine, followed by UNC Libraries, Nature Communications, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, and AIDS.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Walid Heneine include:

  • Transmitted Drug Resistance Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 Diagnoses in the United States, 2014-2018 (2021), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Single Oral Dose for HIV Pre or Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: User Desirability and Biological Efficacy in Macaques (2020), EBioMedicine
  • Ultra-long-acting In-situ Forming Implants With Cabotegravir Protect Female Macaques Against Rectal SHIV Infection (2023), Nature Communications
  • Single Dose Topical Inserts Containing Tenofovir Alafenamide Fumarate and Elvitegravir Provide Pre- and Post-Exposure Protection Against Vaginal SHIV Infection in Macaques (2022), EBioMedicine
  • Pharmacokinetics of Single Dose Doxycycline in the Rectum, Vagina, and Urethra: Implications for Prevention of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections (2024), EBioMedicine

This body of research reflects a focus on both biological efficacy of HIV prevention methods and pharmacokinetics relevant to sexually transmitted infections. The combination of laboratory-based studies and epidemiological approaches underscores a comprehensive approach to addressing infectious diseases within the context of public health.

Best Publications

  • Updated U.S. Public Health Service guidelines for the management of occupational exposures to HIV and recommendations for postexposure prophylaxis.

    Adelisa L Panlilio;Denise M Cardo;Lisa A Grohskopf;Walid Heneine

  • Drug Resistance Mutations for Surveillance of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug-Resistance: 2009 Update

    Diane E. Bennett;Ricardo J. Camacho;Dan Otelea;Daniel R. Kuritzkes

  • Search for Cross-Species Transmission of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus in Patients Treated with Living Pig Tissue

    Khazal Paradis;Gillian Langford;Zhifeng Long;Walid Heneine

  • Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters

    Nathan D. Wolfe;Walid Heneine;Jean K. Carr;Albert D. Garcia

  • Naturally acquired simian retrovirus infections in central African hunters

    Nathan D Wolfe;William M Switzer;Jean K Carr;Vinod B Bhullar

  • Minority HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations Are Present in Antiretroviral Treatment–Naïve Populations and Associate with Reduced Treatment Efficacy

    Jeffrey A Johnson;Jin-Fen Li;Xierong Wei;Jonathan Lipscomb

  • No evidence of infection with porcine endogenous retrovirus in recipients of porcine islet-cell xenografts

    Walid Heneine;Annika Tibell;William M Switzer;Paul Sandstrom

  • Prevention of rectal SHIV transmission in macaques by daily or intermittent prophylaxis with emtricitabine and tenofovir.

    J. Gerardo García-Lerma;Ron A. Otten;Shoukat H. Qari;Eddie Jackson

  • Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis

    David T. Kuhar;David K. Henderson;Kimberly A. Struble;Walid Heneine

  • Susceptibility of HIV-2, SIV and SHIV to various anti-HIV-1 compounds: Implications for treatment and postexposure prophylaxis

    Myriam Witvrouw;Christophe Pannecouque;William M Switzer;Thomas M Folks

  • The epidemiology of antiretroviral drug resistance among drug-naive HIV-1-infected persons in 10 US cities.

    Hillard S. Weinstock;Irum Zaidi;Walid Heneine;Diane Bennett

  • Identification of a Human Population Infected With Simian Foamy Viruses

    Walid Heneine;William M. Switzer;Paul Sandstrom;Jennifer Brown

  • Prevalence of transmitted drug resistance associated mutations and HIV-1 subtypes in new HIV-1 diagnoses, U.S.-2006.

    William Wheeler;Rebecca Ziebell;Helena Zabina;Danuta Pieniazek

  • Ancient co-speciation of simian foamy viruses and primates.

    William M. Switzer;Marco Salemi;Vedapuri Shanmugam;Feng Gao

  • 1970s and ‘Patient 0’ HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America

    Michael Worobey;Thomas D. Watts;Richard A. McKay;Marc A. Suchard

  • Complete protection from repeated vaginal simian-human immunodeficiency virus exposures in macaques by a topical gel containing tenofovir alone or with emtricitabine.

    Urvi M. Parikh;Charles Dobard;Sunita Sharma;Mian Er Cong

  • Emergence of Drug-Resistant HIV-1 after Intrapartum Administration of Single-Dose Nevirapine Is Substantially Underestimated

    Jeffrey A. Johnson;Jin Fen Li;Lynn Morris;Neil Martinson

  • Multiple Groups of Novel Retroviral Genomes in Pigs and Related Species

    Clive Patience;William M. Switzer;Yasuhiro Takeuchi;David J. Griffiths

  • Frequent Simian Foamy Virus Infection in Persons Occupationally Exposed to Nonhuman Primates

    William M. Switzer;Vinod Bhullar;Vedapuri Shanmugam;Mian Er Cong

  • Intermittent Prophylaxis with Oral Truvada Protects Macaques from Rectal SHIV Infection

    J. Gerardo García-Lerma;Mian Er Cong;James Mitchell;Ae S. Youngpairoj

  • Brief report: infection of a laboratory worker with simian immunodeficiency virus.

    Rima F. Khabbaz;Walid Heneine;J. Richard George;Bharat Parekh

  • Increased ability for selection of zidovudine resistance in a distinct class of wild-type HIV-1 from drug-naive persons

    J G Garcia-Lerma;S Nidtha;K Blumoff;H Weinstock

  • Absence of evidence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus infection in persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy controls in the United States.

    William M Switzer;Hongwei Jia;Oliver Hohn;HaoQiang Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Switzer
William M. Switzer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas M. Folks
Thomas M. Folks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Debra L. Hanson
Debra L. Hanson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Paul Sandstrom
Paul Sandstrom Public Health Agency of Canada
Nathan D. Wolfe
Nathan D. Wolfe Global Viral
Donald S. Burke
Donald S. Burke University of Pittsburgh
Jonathan E. Kaplan
Jonathan E. Kaplan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bharat Parekh
Bharat Parekh Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Vincent Soriano
Vincent Soriano Universidad Internacional De La Rioja
Renu B. Lal
Renu B. Lal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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