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Laura Kramer

Laura D. Kramer

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Zoonotic Disease and Clinical Virology
Associate Professor, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Ph.D., Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell Medical School
Postdoctoral training, University of California, Berkeley

E-mail:kramer@wadsworth.org

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  • Dawson JR, Stone WB, Ebel GD, Young DS, Galinski, DS, Therrien JT, Franke MA, Eidson M, Kramer LD. 2007. Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) mortality due to West Nile virus during winter. Emerg Infect Dis. In press.
  • Styer LM, Kent KA, Albright RG, Bennett CJ, Kramer LD, and Bernard KA. 2007. Mosquitoes inoculate high doses of West Nile virus while probing and feeding on live hosts. PLoS Pathogens, In press.
  • Newman SH, Padula VM, Cray C, Kramer LD. 2007. Health assessment of black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) of the New York harbor estuary. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, In press.
  • Ciota AT, Lovelace AO, Jones SA, Payne A, Kramer LD. 2007.Differences in mosquito cell adaptated flaviviruses correlate with differences in genetic diversity . J Gen Virol. In press.
  • Styer LM, Meola M, Kramer LD. 2007. West Nile virus infection decreases fecundity of Culex tarsalis females. Am J Trop Med Hyg. In press.
  • Kramer LD. 2007. West Nile virus. In: The Encyclopedia of Virology. Elseveirs. In press.
  • 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.
  • 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. 77(2):365-70.
  • Ciota AT, Lovelace AO, Ngo KA, Le AN, Maffei JG, Franke MA, Payne AF, Jones, SA, Kauffman EB, Kramer LD. 2007. Cell-specific adaptation of two flaviviruses following serial passage in mosquito cell culture. Virology. 357(2):165-74. [Epub ahead of print] 2006 Sep 11.
  • Jerzak GV, Bernard K, Kramer LD, Shi PY, Ebel GD. 2007. The West Nile virus mutant spectrum is host-dependant and a determinant of mortality in mice. Virology. 360(2):469-76. 2006 Nov 28 [Epub ahead of print].
  • Snapinn KW, Holmes EC, Young DS, Bernard KA, Kramer LD, Ebel GD. 2007. Declining growth rate of West Nile virus in North America. J Virol. 81(5):2531-4. Epub 2006 Dec 20.
  • Kramer LD, Li J, Shi PY. 2007. West Nile virus. Lancet Neurol. 6(2):171-81.
  • Ciota AT, Ngo KA, Lovelace AO, Payne AF, Zhou Y, Shi PY, Kramer LD. 2007 Role of the mutant spectrum in adaptation and replication of West Nile virus. J Gen Virol. 88(Pt 3):865-74.
  • Tavakoli NP, Tobin EH, Wong SJ, Dupuis AP 2nd, Glasheen B, Kramer LD, Bernard KA. 2007. Identification of dengue virus in respiratory specimens from a patient who had recently traveled from a region where dengue virus infection is endemic. J Clin Microbiol. 45(5):1523-7. Mar 21 [Epub ahead of print].
  • Deas TS, Bennett CJ, Jones SA, Tilgner M, Ren P, Behr MJ, Stein DA, Iversen PL, Kramer LD, Bernard KA, Shi PY. 2007. In Vitro Resistance Selection and In Vivo Efficacy of Morpholino Oligomers against West Nile Virus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 51(7):2470-82. May 7 [Epub ahead of print].
  • Bosch I, Herrera F, Navarro JC, Lentino M, Dupuis A, Maffei J, Jones M, Fernandez E, Perez N, Perez-Eman J, Guimaraes AE, Barrera R, Valero N, Ruiz J, Velasquez G, Martinez J, Comach G, Komar N, Spielman A, Kramer L. 2007. West Nile virus, Venezuela. Emerg Infect Dis. 13(4):651-3.
  • Kramer LD, Styer LM, Ebel GD. 2007. A Global Perspective on the Epidemiology of West Nile Virus. Annu Rev Entomol. Jul 23; [Epub ahead of print].
  • Ciota AT, Ngo KA, Lovelace AO, Payne AF, Zhou Y, Shi P-Y, and Kramer LD. 2007. Role of the mutant spectrum in adaptation and replication of West Nile virus, J Gen Virology 88: 865-874.
  • Kilpatrick AM, Daszak P, Jones MJ, Marra PP, Kramer LD. 2006. Host heterogeneity dominates West Nile virus transmission. Proc. Biol. Sci 273(1599):2327-33.
  • Kilpatrick AM, Kramer LD, Jones MJ, Marra PP, Daszak P. 2006. West Nile virus epidemics in North America are driven by shifts in mosquito feeding behavior. PLoS. Biol. 4(4):e82. Feb 28; [Epub ahead of print].
  • Styer LM, Bernard KA, Kramer LD. 2006. Enhanced early West Nile virus infection in young chickens infected by mosquito bite: effect of viral dose. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Aug;75(2):337-45.

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E-mail:kramer@wadsworth.org.