Category Archives: Journals

The mode and tempo of hepatitis C virus evolution within and among hosts.

BMC Evol Biol. 2011 May 19;11(1):131. [Epub ahead of print] Gray RR*, Parker J*, Lemey P, Salemi M, Katzourakis A, Pybus OG. *These authors contributed equally to this article. BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a rapidly-evolving RNA virus that … Continue reading

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Molecular epidemiology and phylogeny reveals complex spatial dynamics of endemic canine parvovirus.

J Virol. 2011 May 18. [Epub ahead of print] Clegg SR, Coyne KP, Parker J, Dawson S, Godsall SA, Pinchbeck G, Cripps PJ, Gaskell RM, Radford AD. Canine parvovirus 2 (CPV-2) is a severe enteric pathogen of dogs, causing high … Continue reading

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Generation of neutralizing antibodies and divergence of SIVmac239 in cynomolgus macaques following short-term early antiretroviral therapy.

PLoS Pathog. 2010 Sep 2;6(9):e1001084. Ozkaya Sahin G, Bowles EJ, Parker J, Uchtenhagen H, Sheik-Khalil E, Taylor S, Pybus OG, Mäkitalo B, Walther-Jallow L, Spångberg M, Thorstensson R, Achour A, Fenyö EM, Stewart-Jones GB, Spetz AL. Neutralizing antibodies (NAb) able … Continue reading

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Safety and immunogenicity of novel recombinant BCG and modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccines in neonate rhesus macaques.

J Virol. 2010 Aug;84(15):7815-21. Epub 2010 May 19. Rosario M, Fulkerson J, Soneji S, Parker J, Im EJ, Borthwick N, Bridgeman A, Bourne C, Joseph J, Sadoff JC, Hanke T Although major inroads into making antiretroviral therapy available in resource-poor … Continue reading

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Full-Length Characterization of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 3a Reveals Novel Hypervariable Regions under Positive Selection during Acute Infection

Humphreys I, Fleming V, Fabris P, Parker J, Schulenberg B, Brown A, Demetriou C, Gaudieri S, Pfafferott K, Lucas M, Collier J, Huang KH, Pybus OG, Klenerman P, Barnes E. J Virol. 2009 Nov;83(22):11456-66. Epub 2009 Sep 9. Hepatitis C … Continue reading

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Estimating the Date of Origin of An HIV-1 Circulating Recombinant Form

Virology. 2009 Apr 25;387(1):229-34. Epub 2009 Mar 9. Tee KK, Pybus OG, Parker J, Ng KP, Kamarulzaman A, Takebe Y. HIV is capable of frequent genetic exchange through recombination. Despite the pandemic spread of HIV-1 recombinants, their times of origin … Continue reading

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Correlating Viral Phenotypes With Phylogeny: Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty

Infect Genet Evol. 2008 May;8(3):239-46. Epub 2007 Aug 21. Parker J, Rambaut A, Pybus OG. Many recent studies have sought to quantify the degree to which viral phenotypic characters (such as epidemiological risk group, geographic location, cell tropism, drug resistance … Continue reading

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