Investigators and Program Directors

Select Publications

• Kramer LD and Ebel GD. 2008. West Nile virus: Molecular epidemiology and diversity. M Diamond [Ed]. In: West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection: Viral Pathogenesis and the Host Immune Response Springer press. pp1-24.
• Kramer LD, Styer LM, Ebel GD. 2008. A global perspective on West Nile virus. In: Annual Review of Entomology. Jul 23 [Epub ahead of print] 53:61-81.
• Moudy, R., Zhang B., Shi, P.Y., Kramer, L.D. 2009. West Nile virus envelope protein glycosylation is required for efficient viral transmission by Culex vectors. Virology in press
• Gomez, A., L. Kramer, A. Dupuis, A.M. Kilpatrick, L. Davis, M. Jones, P. Daszak, A. Aguirre, Experimental infection of eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) with West Nile virus. Am J Trop Med Hyg Sep;79(3):447-51.
• Chotkowski H.L., A. T. Ciota, Y. Jia, F. Puig-Basagoiti, L.D, Kramer, P.Y. Shi, R. Glaser. West Nile virus infection of Drosophila melanogaster induces a protective RNAi response. Virology. 2008 Jul 20;377(1):197-206. Epub 2008 May 23.
• Kilpatrick, A.M., M.A, Meola, R.M. Moudy, L.D. Kramer. Temperature, viral genetics, and the transmission of West Nile virus by Culex pipiens mosquitoes. PLoS Pathog. 2008 Jun 27;4(6):e1000092. Selected for citation by Faculty of 1000, June 2008
• Gómez A., A.M. Kilpatrick, L.D. Kramer, A.P. Dupuis 2nd, J.G. Maffei, S.J. Goetz, P.P. Marra, P. Daszak, A.A. Aguirre. (2008). Land use and West Nile virus seroprevalence in wild mammals. Emerg Infect Dis.14(6):962-965.
• Ciota AT, Lovelace AO, Y Jia, LJ Davis, DS Young, and LD Kramer (2008). Characterization of mosquito-adapted West Nile Virus, J Gen Virol. 89: 1633-1642.
• Jerzak G, Brown I, Shi P-Y, Kramer LD, Ebel GD (2008). Genetic diversity and purifying selection in West Nile virus are maintained during host switching. Virology 374: 256-260.
• Young, D.S., L.D. Kramer, J.G. Maffei, R.J. Dusek, P.B. Backenson, C.N. Mores, K.A. Bernard, and G.D. Ebel (2008). Molecular epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis virus epizootics in New York State, Emerg Infect Dis 14(3): 454-460.
• Dawson JR, Stone WB, Ebel GD, Young DS, Galinski, DS, Therrien JT, Franke MA, Eidson M, Kramer LD (2007). West Nile Virus mortality in American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos). Emerg Infect Dis. 13: 1912-1914.
• Kilpatrick AM, Kramer LD, Jones MJ, Marra PP, Daszak P, Fonseca DM. (2007). Genetic influences on mosquito feeding behavior and the emergence of zoonotic pathogens. Am J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 77(4):667-671
• Styer LM, Kent KA, Albright RG, Bennett CJ, Kramer LD, and Bernard KA. 2007. Mosquitoes inoculate high doses of West Nile virus as they probe and feed on live hosts, PLoS Pathogens, 3(9):1262-70.
• Jia Y, Moudy RM, Dupuis AP II, Ngo KA, Maffei JG, Jerzak GV, Franke MA, Kauffman EB, Kramer LD. 2007. Characterization of a small plaque variant of West Nile virus isolated in New York in 2000. Virology 77(2):365-70.
• Ciota AT, Lovelace AO, Jones SA, Payne A, Kramer LD. Differences in mosquito cell adaptated flaviviruses correlate with differences in genetic diversity . J. Gen Virology, 88: 865-874.
• Styer LM, Meola M, Kramer LD. West Nile virus infection decreases fecundity of Culex tarsalis females. J Med Entomology, 44: 1074-1085.
• Moudy RM, Meola M, Morin LL, Ebel GD, Kramer LD. 2007. A newly emergent genotype of West Nile virus is transmitted earlier and more efficiently by Culex mosquitoes, likely due to a difference in viral replication in the mosquito midgut. Am J Trop Med Hyg. Aug;77(2):365-70. Selected for citation by Faculty if 1000, 2007.

Contact Information

E-mail:kramer@wadsworth.org.