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Kirsten St. George

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Zoonotic Disease and Clinical Virology

M.App.Sc., University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Email: kxs16@health.state.ny.us

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  • Sampath R, Russell KL, Massire C, Eshoo MW, Harpin V, Blyn LB, Melton R, Ivy C, Pennella T, Li F, Levene H, Hall TA, Libby B, Fan N, Walcott DJ, Ranken R, Pear M, Schink A, Drader J, Moore D, Metzgar D, Addington L, Rothman R, Gaydos CA, Yang S, St. George K, Fuschino M, Dean AB, Stallknecht D, Goekjian G, Yingst S, Monteville M, Saad MD, Whitehouse CA, Baldwin C, Rudnick KH, Hofstadler SA, Lemon SM, Ecker DJ: Rapid surveillance of the global spread of emerging influenza virus genotypes by mass spectrometry. PLoS ONE 2007, 2(5): e489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000489.
  • Dare R, Sanghavi S, Bullotta A, Keightley M-C, St. George K, Wadowsky RM, Paterson D, McCurry KR, Reinhart TA, Husain S, Rinaldo CR: Detection of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection in immunosuppressed lung transplant recipients and children evaluated for pertussis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2007, 45, 548-52.
  • St. George K, Hoji A and Rinaldo CR Jr.: Cytomegalovirus. In: Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology, 7th edition. Detrick B, Hamilton RG and Folds JD (eds) 2006, ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
  • Nelson MI, Simonsen L, Viboud C, Miller MA, Taylor J, St. George K, Griesemer SB, Ghedin E, Sengamalay NA, Spiro DJ, Volkov I, Grenfell BT, Lipman DJ, Taubenberger JK, Holmes EC: Stochastic processes are key determinants of short-term evolution in influenza A virus. PLoS Pathogens 2006, 2(12): e125. doi:10.1371/juurnal.ppat 0020125.
  • Keightley M-C, Bullotta A, Dauber J, Rinaldo C, St. George K: Clinical utility of CMV early and late transcript detection with NASBA in bronchoalveolar lavages. Journal of Clinical Virology 2006, 37, 258-264.
  • Lamson D, Renwick N, Kapoor V, Liu Z, Palacios G, Ju J, Dean A, St. George K, Briese T, Lipkin WI: MassTag PCR detection of respiratory pathogens, including a new rhinovirus genotype, causing influenza-like illness in New York State, 2004-2005. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2006, 194, 1398-1402.
  • Keightley M-C, Sillekens P, Schippers W, Rinaldo C, St. George K: Real-time NASBA detection of SARS-associated coronavirus and comparison with real-time reverse transcription PCR. J Med Virol 2005 77: 602-608.
  • Ghedin E, Miller NA, Shumway M, Zaborsky J, Feldblyum T, Subbu V, Spiro D, Sitz J, Koo H, Bolotov P, Dernovoy D, Tatusova T, Bao Y, St. George K, Taylor J, Lipman DJ, Fraser CM, Taubenberger JK, and Salzberg SL: Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the dynamic nature of viral genome evolution. Nature, advance online publication, 5 October 2005 (doi: 10.1038/nature04239), 437, 1162-1166.
  • Holmes EC, Ghedin E, Miller N, Taylor J, Bao Y, St. George K, Grenfell BT, Salzberg SL, Fraser CM, Lipman DJ, Taubenberger JK: Whole genome analysis of human influenza A virus reveals multiple persistent lineages and reasssortment events among recent H3N2 viruses. PLoS Biology 2005 Vol. 3, No. 9, e300.

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Email: kxs16@health.state.ny.us