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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

William J. Britt is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with notable contributions to epidemiology, infectious diseases, neurology, genetics, and parasitology.

Their work addresses several main topics including:

  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Herpesvirus infections and treatments
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Toxoplasma gondii research studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Respiratory viral infections research

Britt has published extensively in scientific venues such as:

  • Viruses
  • Journal of Virology
  • JCI Insight
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Britt include:

  • Suresh B. Boppana (10 publications)
  • Michael Mach (9 publications)
  • Verónica Sánchez (8 publications)
  • Luz Helena Gutierrez Sanchez (6 publications)
  • Henry Shiau (6 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A Case Series of Children with Acute Hepatitis and Human Adenovirus Infection" (2022), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children - Alabama, October 2021-February 2022" (2022), published in MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • "Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Cytomegalovirus Infection and Inflammation in Developing Brain" (2021), published in Viruses
  • "Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection" (2021), published in Emerging Infectious Diseases

William J. Britt has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The Outcome of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in Relation to Maternal Antibody Status

    Karen B. Fowler;Sergio Stagno;Robert J. Pass;William J. Britt

  • Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy: Incidence, Transmission to Fetus, and Clinical Outcome

    S. Stagno;R. F. Pass;G. Cloud;W. J. Britt

  • Intrauterine Transmission of Cytomegalovirus to Infants of Women With Preconceptional Immunity

    Suresh B. Boppana;Lisa B. Rivera;Karen B. Fowler;Michael Mach

  • Human cytomegalovirus infection and expression in human malignant glioma.

    Charles S Cobbs;Lualhati Harkins;Minu Samanta;G Yancey Gillespie

  • Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection: neonatal morbidity and mortality

    Suresh B. Boppana;Robert F. Pass;William J. Britt;Sergio Stagno

  • Identification of Proteins in Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) Particles: the HCMV Proteome

    Susan M. Varnum;Daniel N. Streblow;Matthew E. Monroe;Patricia Smith

  • Progressive and fluctuating sensorineural hearing loss in children with asymptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection

    Karen B. Fowler;Faye P. McCollister;Arthur J. Dahle;Suresh Boppana

  • Congenital cytomegalovirus infection following first trimester maternal infection: Symptoms at birth and outcome

    Robert F. Pass;Karen B. Fowler;Suresh B. Boppana;William J. Britt

  • Saliva Polymerase-Chain-Reaction Assay for Cytomegalovirus Screening in Newborns

    Suresh B. Boppana;Shannon A. Ross;Masako Shimamura;April L. Palmer

  • Longitudinal investigation of hearing disorders in children with congenital cytomegalovirus.

    A J Dahle;K B Fowler;J D Wright;S B Boppana

  • Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection in infants born to mothers with preexisting immunity to cytomegalovirus

    Suresh B. Boppana;Karen B. Fowler;William J. Britt;Sergio Stagno

  • Specific localisation of human cytomegalovirus nucleic acids and proteins in human colorectal cancer

    Lualhati Harkins;Andrea L Volk;Minu Samanta;Ivan Mikolaenko

  • Accumulation of Virion Tegument and Envelope Proteins in a Stable Cytoplasmic Compartment during Human Cytomegalovirus Replication: Characterization of a Potential Site of Virus Assembly

    Veronica Sanchez;Kenneth D. Greis;Elizabeth Sztul;William J. Britt

  • Congenital and Perinatal Cytomegalovirus Infections

    Charles A. Alford;Sergio Stagno;Robert F. Pass;William J. Britt

  • Manifestations of human cytomegalovirus infection: proposed mechanisms of acute and chronic disease.

    W. Britt

  • Cell surface expression of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) gp55-116 (gB): use of HCMV-recombinant vaccinia virus-infected cells in analysis of the human neutralizing antibody response.

    W J Britt;L Vugler;E J Butfiloski;E B Stephens

  • High prevalence of human cytomegalovirus in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and prostatic carcinoma.

    Minu Samanta;Lualhati Harkins;Katrin Klemm;William J. Britt

  • Ganciclovir treatment of symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection: results of a phase II study. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Group.

    Richard J. Whitley;Gretchen Cloud;William Gruber;Gregory A. Storch

  • Dried Blood Spot Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays to Screen Newborns for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection

    Suresh B. Boppana;Shannon A. Ross;Zdenek Novak;Masako Shimamura

  • Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Association between Virus Burden in Infancy and Hearing Loss

    Suresh B. Boppana;Karen B. Fowler;Robert F. Pass;Lisa B. Rivera

Frequent Co-Authors

Suresh B. Boppana
Suresh B. Boppana University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert F. Pass
Robert F. Pass University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael Mach
Michael Mach University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Sergio Stagno
Sergio Stagno University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stipan Jonjić
Stipan Jonjić University of Rijeka
Karen B. Fowler
Karen B. Fowler University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jay A. Nelson
Jay A. Nelson Oregon Health & Science University
Phillip D. Smith
Phillip D. Smith University of Alabama at Birmingham
Don J. Diamond
Don J. Diamond City Of Hope National Medical Center
Jeffrey D. Jensen
Jeffrey D. Jensen Arizona State University

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