2009 Publications of the Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University

2011 Publications

Publication of research on showing ivermectin mass drug administrations in Senegal disrupts malaria transmission highlighted in Science, July 15, 2011,Vol 333, 6040:273-4, “Antiparasitic drug has bonus effect on mosquitoes”, broadcast stories by: VOA, CSU, BBC Afrique, CO Public Radio, NIH podcast; Print & Online: Science, ScienceNow, NYTimes, BMJ, Denver Post, The Guardian, PBS Newshour, and many other blogs, healthnews sources, international press and new pickups

Publication of research on probable sexual transmission of an arbovirus (Zika virus) highlighted in Science, April 15, 2011,Vol 332, 6027:290, “Sex after a field trip yield scientific first”, reviewed by the Faculty of 1000, featured on a podcast by the CDC, and featured in numerous articles and websites in the popular press.

Bonizzoni M., Dunn W.A., Campbell C.L., Olson K.E., Dimon M.T., Marinotti O., and James, A.A. (2011). RNA-seq analyses of blood-induced changes in gene expression in the mosquito vector species Aedes aegypti. BMC Genomics. Accepted.

Hess, A.M., Prasad, A., Ptitsyn, A., Ebel, G.D., Olson, K.E., Barbacioru, C., Monighetti, C. and Campbell, C.L. (2011). Small RNA profiling of Dengue virus-mosquito interactions implicates the PIWI RNA pathway in antiviral defense. BMC Microbiology. 11:45.

Franz, A.W.E. Isaacs, A.T., Sanchez-Vargas, I., Smith, M.R., Khoo, C.H., Heersink, M.S., James, A.A. and Olson, K.E. (2011). A comparison of phenotypes and genotypes in transgenic Aedes aegypti generated by mariner Mos1 transposition and ϕC31 site-directed recombination. Insect Mol Biol. 2011 Jun 24. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01089.x. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21699593

Steel J.J., Henderson B.R., Lama S.B., Olson K.E., Geiss B.J. (2011). Infectious alphavirus production from a simple plasmid transfection. Virology Journal. PMID: 21771308.

Bonizzoni, M, Dunn, W.A., Campbell, C.L., Olson, K.E., Marinotti, O. and James, A.A. (2012). Strain Variation in the Transcriptome of the Dengue Fever Vector, Aedes aegypti. Genes/Genomes/Genetics (G3), 2:103-114.

Olson, K.E. and Blair C.D. (2012). Chapter 14. Flavivirus-vector Interactions in "Molecular Virology and Control of Flaviviruses. (Pei-Yong Shi, editor) Caister Academic Press. Norfolk, UK. pp 297-334.

Franz, A.W.E., Jasinskiene, N., Sanchez-Vargas, I., Isaacs, A.T., Smith, M.R., Khoo, C.C.H., Heersink, M.S., James, A.A., Olson, K.E. (2011). Comparison of transgene expression in Aedes aegypti generated by mariner Mos1 transposition and PhiC31 site-directed recombination. Insect Molecular Biology [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01089.x]. NIH RMRCE Diagnosis and prognosis of dengue infections 2009-2011

Calisher, C.H., Mills, J.N., Root, J.J., Doty, J.B., and Beaty, B.J. The relative abundance of deer mice with antibody to Sin nombre virus corresponds to the occurrence of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in nearby humans. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 11:577- 82, 2011.

Ledermann, JP, Lorono-Pino, MA, Ellis, C, Shaw, K, Blitvich, BJ, Beaty, BJ, Bowen, RA, and Powers, AM. Evaluation of widely used diagnostic tests to detect West Nile virus infections in horses previously infected with St. Louis encephalitis virus or dengue virus type 2. Journal of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 18:580-587, 2011.

Garcia-Rejon, JE, Lorono-Pino, MA, Farfan-Ale, JA, Flores-Flores, LF, Lopez-Uribe, MP, Najera-Vazquez, MDR, Nunez-Ayala, G, Beaty, BJ, and Eisen, L. Mosquito infestation and dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti females in schools in Merida. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 84:489-496, 2011.

Garcia-Rejon, JE., Lopez-Uribe, MP., Lorono-Pino, MA., Farfan-Ale, JA., Najera-Vazquez, R., Lozano-Fuentes, S., Beaty, BJ., Eisen, L. Productive container types for Aedes aegypti immatures in Merida, Mexico. Journal of Medical Entomology, 48:644-650, 2011.

Diaz-Baillo, A., Bolling, BG, Perez-Ramirez, G., Moore, CG., Martinez-Munoz, JP., Padilla-Viveros, AA., Camacho-Nuez, M., Diaz-Perez, A., Beaty, BJ, and Munoz. ML the distribution of poential West Nile virus vectors, Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera : Culicidae), in Mexico City. Parasites and Vectors, in press, 2011.

Wise de Valdez, M.R., D. Nimmo, J. Betz, H-F Gong, A.A. James, L. Alphey and W. C. Black IV. (2011). Genetic elimination of dengue vector mosquitoes. Proceedings of the Natl Acad. Sci.. 108: 4772-4775

Black, W.C. IV, Alphey, L. and A. A. James. 2011. Why RIDL is not SIT. Trends in Parasitology (in press)

Doty, J., J. Dragoo, W. C. Black IV, B. J. Beaty, and C. H. Calisher. 2011. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in eastern Colorado: a subspecies with lower susceptibility to Sin Nombre virus infection? Journal of Mammalogy (in press)

Saavedra-Rodriguez, K., A.F. Suarez, I. F. Salas, C.Strode, H. Ranson, J. Hemingway and W.C. Black IV. 2011. Transcription of detoxification genes following permethrin selection in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Insect Molecular Biology)

Bernhardt SA, Simmons MP, Geiss, B., Blair CD, Sylla M,.Olson KE, Beaty BJ, Black WC. 2011. Intraspecific evolution of miRNA and siRNA genes in the mosquito arboviral vector Aedes aegypti Molecular Biology and Evolution (submitted)

Butrapet, Siritorn, Thomas Childers, Kelley J. Moss, Steven M. Erb, Betty E. Luy, Amanda E. Calvert, Carol D. Blair, John T. Roehrig, and Claire Y.-H. Huang. 2011. Amino acid changes within the E protein hinge region that affect dengue virus type 2 infectivity and fusion, Virology 413,118-27. Epub 2011 Feb 24.

Hunt, Ann R., Richard A. Bowen, Shana Frederickson, Toshiaki Maruyama, John T. Roehrig, and Carol D. Blair. 2011. Treatment of mice with human monoclonal antibody 24 hours after lethal aerosol challenge with virulent Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus prevents disease but not infection, Virology 414, 146-152.

Blair, Carol D. 2011. Mosquito RNAi is the major innate immune pathway controlling arbovirus infection and transmission. Future Microbiology, 6, 265-277. doi:10.2217/fmb.11.11

Bolling, Bethany G., Lars Eisen, Chester G. Moore and Carol D. Blair. 2011. Insect-specific Flaviviruses from Culex Mosquitoes in Colorado, with Evidence of Vertical Transmission, in press, Amer J Trop Med Hyg. 85: 169-177.

Tyler, Shaun, Bethany G. Bolling, Carol D. Blair, Aaron C. Brault, Kanti Pabbaraju, M.Veronica Armijos, David C. Clark, Charles H. Calisher, and Michael A. Drebot. 2011. Distribution and phylogenetic comparisons of a novel mosquito flavivirus sequence present in Culex tarsalis mosquitoes from western Canada with viruses isolated in California and Colorado, Amer J Trop Med Hyg. 85, 162-168

Book chapter
Olson, K.E. and C.D. Blair. 2011. Flavivirus-Vector Interactions. In: Molecular Virology and Control of Flaviviruses, Pei-Yong Shi, ed., Horizon Scientific Press.

Ibarra-Juarez, L., L. Eisen, B.G. Bolling, B.J. Beaty, B.J. Blitvich, R.M. Sanchez-Casas, Y.O. Ayala-Sulca, and I. Fernandez-Salas. 2011. West Nile virus in horses and mosquitoes in northern Mexico, 2006-2007. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 25: In Press.

Bolling, B.G., L. Eisen, C.G. Moore, and C. D. Blair. 2011. Insect-specific flaviviruses from Culex mosquitoes in Colorado, with evidence of vertical transmission. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 85: 169-177

García-Rejón, J.E., M.P. López-Uribe, M.A. Loroño-Pino, J.A. Farfán-Ale, M.R. Najera-Vazquez, S. Lozano-Fuentes, B.J. Beaty, and L. Eisen. 2011. Productive container types for Aedes aegypti immatures in Mérida, México. Journal of Medical Entomology 48: 644-650.

Eisen, L., M. Coleman, S. Lozano-Fuentes, N. McEachen, M. Orlans, and M. Coleman. 2011. Multi-disease data management system platform for vector-borne diseases. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5: e1016.

García-Rejón, J.E., M.A. Loroño-Pino, J.A. Farfán-Ale, L.F. Flores-Flores, M.P. López-Uribe, M.R. Najera-Vazquez, G. Nuñez-Ayala, B.J. Beaty, and L. Eisen. 2011. Mosquito infestation and dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti females in schools in Mérida, México. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 84: 489-496.

Foy BD, Kobylinski KC, Marques da Silva I, Rasgon JL, Sylla M. Endectocides for malaria control. Trends Parasitol. 2011 Jul 2.

Kobylinski KC, Sylla M, Chapman PL, Sarr MD, Foy BD. Ivermectin mass drug administration to humans disrupts malaria parasite transmission in Senegalese villages. AJTMH. 2011 Jul ;85(1):3-5.

Campbell CL, Lehmann CJ, Gill S, Dunn WA, James AA, Foy BD. A role for endosomal proteins in alphavirus dissemination in mosquitoes. Insect Mol Biol. 2011 Apr 18. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01078.x. [Epub ahead of print]

Foy, BD, Kobylinski KC, Chilson Foy JL, Blitvich BJ, Travassos da Rosa A, Haddow AD, Lanciotti RS, Tesh RB. Probable non-vector-borne transmission of Zika virus, Colorado, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 May; 17(5)880-2.

Bolling, B.G., L. Eisen, C.G. Moore, and C.D. Blair. Insect-specific flaviviruses from Culex mosquitoes in Colorado, with evidence of vertical transmission. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 85(1):169-177; 2011.

Díaz-Badillo, A., B.G. Bolling, G. Pérez-Ramírez, C.G. Moore, J.P. Martínez-Muñoz, A.A. Padilla-Viveros, M. Camacho-Nuez, A. Díaz-Pérez, B.J. Beaty and M.deL. Muñoz. The distribution of potential West Nile virus vectors, Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae), in Mexico City. Parasites & Vectors 4(70):1-12; 2011.

Behrens, J.J and C.G. Moore. Using geographic information systems to analyze the distribution and abundance of Aedes aegypti in Africa: The potential role of human travel in determining the intensity of mosquito infestation. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (In Press).

Moore, C.G. and J.E. Freier. Geospatial Technologies and Spatial Data Analysis. In: Infectious Disease Surveillance, 2nd ed. N. Mikanatha, R. Lynfield, C. Van Beneden and H. de Valk, eds. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell (In Press).