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Susan Wong

Susan J. Wong

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Bacterial Disease
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Postdoctoral training, University of Liverpool, U.K. and University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

E-mail: SJW03@health.state.ny.us

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  • O'Connor, K. C., H. Appel, L. Bregoli, M.E. Call, I. Catz, J.A. Chan, N.H. Moore, K.G. Warren, S.J. Wong, D.A. Hafler, and K.W. Wucherpfennig. 2005. Antibodies from Inflamed Central Nervous System Tissue recognize Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein.. Journal of Immunology. 175:1974-1982.
  • De la Fuente, J., R.F. Massung, S.J. Wong, F.K. Chu, H. Lutz, M. Meli, F.D. von Loewenich, A. Grzeszczuk, A. Torina, S. Caracappa, A.J. Mangold, V. Naranjo, S. Stuen, and K.M. Kocan. Sequence Analysis of the msp4 Gene of Anaplasma phagocytophila Strains. 2005. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43:1309-1317.
  • Kumar, D., M.A. Drebot, S.J. Wong, G. Lim, H. Artsob, P. Buck, and A. Humar. 2004. A Seroprevalence Study of West Nile Virus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Am J. Transplantation. 4:1296-1301.
  • Wong, S.J., V.L. Demarest, R.H. Boyle, T. Wang, M. Ledizet, K. Kar, L.D. Kramer, E. Fikrig, and R.A. Koski. 2004. Detection of Human Anti-Flavivirus Antibodies with a West Nile Virus Recombinant Antigen Microsphere Immunoassay. J. Clin. Microbiol. 42:65-72.
  • Shi, P.-Y. and Wong, S.J. 2003. Serologic Diagnosis of West Nile virus infection. Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 3(6):89-97.
  • Wong, S.J., R. H. Boyle, V. L. Demarest, A. N. Woodmansee, L.D. Kramer, H. Li, M. Drebot, R. A. Koski, E. Fikrig, D. A. Martin, and P.-Y. Shi. 2003. Immunoassay Targeting Nonstructural Protein 5 to Differentiate West Nile Virus Infection from Dengue and St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infections and from Flavivirus Vaccination. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:4217-4223.
  • Barbet, A.F., P.F.M. Meus, M. Belanger, M.V. Bowie, J. Yi, A.M. Lundgren, A.R. Alleman, S.J. Wong, F.K. Chu, U.G. Munderloh, and S.D. Jauron. 2003. Expression of Multiple Outer Membrane Protein Sequence Variants from a Single Genomic locus of Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Infect. Immun. 71:1706-1718.
  • Lux, J.Z., D. Weiss, J.V. Linden, D. Kessler, B.L. Herwaldt, S.J. Wong, J. Keithly, P. Della-Latta and B.E. Scully. 2003. Transfusion-Associated Babesiosis after Heart Transplant. Emerging Inf. Dis. 9:116-119.
  • Wang, T. L.A. Magnarelli, J.F. Anderson, L.H. Gould, S.L. Buschmich, S.J. Wong and E. Fikrig. 2002. A Recombinant Envelope Protein-Based Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay for West Nile Virus Serodiagnosis. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Dis. 2:105-109.
  • CDC (S. Wong, contributor). 2002. Intrauterine West Nile Virus Infection - New York, 2002. MMWR 51:1135-1136.
  • Fine, A.D., C.B. Bridges, A.M. De Guzman, L. Glover, B. Zeller, S.J. Wong, I. Baker, H. Regnery, and K. Fukuda. 2001. Influenza A among patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An Outbreak of Infection at a Residential Facility in New York City. Clinical Infectious Diseases 32:1784-91.
  • Wang, T., J.F. Anderson, L.A. Magnarelli, S.J. Wong, R.A. Koski and E. Fikrig. 2001. Immunization of Mice Against West Nile Virus with Recombinant Envelope Protein. The Journal of Immunology 167:5273-5277.
  • Nash, D., F. Mostashari, A. Fine, J. Miller, D.O'Leary K. Murray, A. Huang, A. Rosenberg, A. Greenberg, M. Sherman, S. Wong, M. Layton et al. 2001. An outbreak of West Nile virus infection, New York City Area, 1999. N Eng J Med 334:1807-14.
  • Wang T, JF Anderson, LA Magnarelli, S Bushmich, S Wong, R Koski, and E Fikrig. 2001. West Nile Envelope Protein: Role in Diagnosis and Immunity. Ann. NY Academy Sciences. 951:325-327.
  • Wong SJ and SJ Seligman. 2001. Long Term Stability of West Nile Virus IgM and IgG Antibodies in Diluted Sera Stored at 4 C. Ann NY Acad. Sciences. 951:369-372.
  • Kulas K, V Demarest, and SJ Wong. 2001. Use of an Arboviral Immunofluorescent Assay in Screening for West Nile Virus. Ann. NY Acad. Sciences 951:357-360.

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E-mail: SJW03@health.state.ny.us