Heather B Bowers
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Bassit L, Bowers H, Greenleaf M, Sabino C, Lai E, Yu G, et al.
STAR Protoc
. 2024 Jun;
5(3):103146.
PMID: 38905104
The emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha variant in 2020 demonstrated the need for reanalysis of diagnostic tests to ensure detection of emerging variants. Here,...
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Damhorst G, McLendon K, Morales E, Solis Z, Fitts E, Bowers H, et al.
J Clin Virol
. 2024 Mar;
171:105659.
PMID: 38430669
Anorectal and oropharyngeal exposures are implicated in sexual transmission of mpox, but authorized assays in the United States are only validated with cutaneous lesion swabs. Diagnostic assays for anorectal and...
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Damhorst G, Fujita A, Fitts E, Szabo B, Bowers H, Sabino C, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2023 Nov;
229(Supplement_2):S213-S218.
PMID: 38019187
The 2022 mpox outbreak primarily involved sexual transmission among men who have sex with men and disproportionately affected persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We examined viral dynamics and clinical...
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Rao A, Lin J, Parsons R, Greenleaf M, Westbrook A, Lai E, et al.
medRxiv
. 2023 Nov;
PMID: 37986832
Motivation: The motivation for this work was the need to establish a predefined cutoff based on genome copies per ml (GE/ml) rather than Ct, which can vary depending on the...
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Rao A, Westbrook A, Bassit L, Parsons R, Fitts E, Greenleaf M, et al.
J Clin Microbiol
. 2023 Sep;
61(10):e0013823.
PMID: 37728336
Rapid antigen tests (RATs) have become an invaluable tool for combating the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns have been raised regarding the ability of existing RATs to effectively detect emerging SARS-CoV-2...
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Rao A, Westbrook A, Bassit L, Parsons R, Fitts E, Greenleaf M, et al.
medRxiv
. 2023 Feb;
PMID: 36798414
Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) have become an invaluable tool for combating the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns have been raised regarding the ability of existing RATs to effectively detect emerging SARS-CoV-2...
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Frank F, Keen M, Rao A, Bassit L, Liu X, Bowers H, et al.
Cell
. 2022 Sep;
185(19):3603-3616.e13.
PMID: 36084631
The effects of mutations in continuously emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 are a major concern for the performance of rapid antigen tests. To evaluate the impact of mutations on 17 antibodies...
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Rao A, Bassit L, Lin J, Verma K, Bowers H, Pachura K, et al.
iScience
. 2022 Feb;
25(3):103968.
PMID: 35224469
As the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants brings the global pandemic to new levels, the performance of current rapid antigen tests against variants of concern and interest (VOC/I) is of significant...