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William M. Switzer is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within medicine and immunology, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, epidemiology, and virology. Their work also touches on agronomy and crop science as a subfield, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including HIV research and treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, and the intersection of HIV with drug use and sexual risk. Additional areas of study involve animal disease management and epidemiology, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, T-cell and retrovirus studies, and vector-borne animal diseases.

William M. Switzer has a significant body of published research, frequently appearing in multiple scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Viruses
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • UNC Libraries
  • Public Health Reports
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Their recent papers illustrate active engagement in diverse aspects of virology and public health. Examples of recent publications include:

  • Accurate assembly of minority viral haplotypes from next-generation sequencing through efficient noise reduction, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • MicrobeTrace: Retooling molecular epidemiology for rapid public health response, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Trends in HIV-2 Diagnoses and Use of the HIV-1/HIV-2 Differentiation Test - United States, 2010-2017, 2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • CD4 receptor diversity represents an ancient protection mechanism against primate lentiviruses, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Koala retrovirus diversity, transmissibility, and disease associations, 2020, Retrovirology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, indicating an active collaborative research environment. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Anupama Shankar
  • Ellsworth M. Campbell
  • Huiyuan Zheng
  • Philip J. Peters
  • Sergey Knyazev

William M. Switzer's research reflects a multidisciplinary focus on infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, while involving advanced molecular epidemiology techniques and viral genetics. This work contributes to public health understanding and intervention strategies in these fields.

Best Publications

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

    Khazal Paradis;Gillian Langford;Zhifeng Long;Walid Heneine

  • HIV Infection Linked to Injection Use of Oxymorphone in Indiana, 2014-2015.

    Philip J. Peters;Pamela Pontones;Karen W. Hoover;Monita R. Patel

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Identification of a Human Population Infected With Simian Foamy Viruses

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

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

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

  • Identification and biologic characterization of an acutely lethal variant of simian immunodeficiency virus from sooty mangabeys (SIV/SMM).

    Patricia N. Fultz;Harold M. McCLURE;Daniel C. Anderson;William M. Switzer

  • 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

  • Evolutionary and Functional Analyses of the Interaction between the Myeloid Restriction Factor SAMHD1 and the Lentiviral Vpx Protein

    Nadine Laguette;Nadia Rahm;Bijan Sobhian;Christine Chable-Bessia

  • Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products

    Kristine M. Smith;Kristine M. Smith;Simon J. Anthony;Simon J. Anthony;William M. Switzer;Jonathan H. Epstein

  • Chimpanzee adenovirus antibodies in humans, sub-Saharan Africa.

    Zhiquan Xiang;Yan Li;Ann Cun;Wei Yang

  • Male-to-female transmission of human T-cell lymphotropic virus types I and II: association with viral load. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study Group.

    Jonathan E. Kaplan;Rima F. Khabbaz;Edward L. Murphy;Sigurd Hermansen

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

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

  • Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018

    Charles Alpren;Erica L. Dawson;Betsey John;Kevin Cranston

  • 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

  • An exogenous retrovirus isolated from koalas with malignant neoplasias in a US zoo

    Wenqin Xu;Cynthia K. Stadler;Kristen Gorman;Nathaniel Jensen

  • Molecular ecology and natural history of Simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees

    Weimin Liu;Michael Worobey;Yingying Li;Brandon F. Keele

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) in Portugal: clinical spectrum, circulating subtypes, virus isolation, and plasma viral load.

    Vincent Soriano;Perpétua Gomes;Walid Heneine;Africa Holguín

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid Heneine
Walid Heneine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas M. Folks
Thomas M. Folks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nathan D. Wolfe
Nathan D. Wolfe Global Viral
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Tony L. Goldberg
Tony L. Goldberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yury Khudyakov
Yury Khudyakov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Renu B. Lal
Renu B. Lal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Donald S. Burke
Donald S. Burke University of Pittsburgh
Michael P. Busch
Michael P. Busch University of California, San Francisco
Bharat Parekh
Bharat Parekh Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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