Diagnostic Publications

Rudd RJ, Appler KA, Wong SJ. Presence of cross-reactions with other viral encephalitides in the indirect fluorescent-antibody test for diagnosis of rabies. J Clin Microbiol. 2013; 51 (12): 4079-4082.
Rudd RJ, Smith JS, Yager PA, Orciari LA, Trimarchi CV. A need for standardized rabies virus diagnostic procedures: effect of cover glass mountant on the reliability of antigen detection by the fluorescent antibody test. Virus Research. 2005; (111): 83-88.
Trimarchi CV, Rudd RJ. Rabies In: American Society of Microbiology. Clinical Virology Manual. 2005; 4
Trimarchi CV, Rudd RJ, Safford M Jr. An in vitro virus neutralization test for rabies antibody. Laboratory Techniques in Rabies. 1996; 4
Rudd RJ, Trimarchi CV. Development and evaluation of an in-vitro virus isolation procedure as a replacement for the mouse inoculation test in rabies diagnosis. J Clin Microbiol. 1989; 27 (11): 2522-2528.

Research Publications

Morgan MD, Pouliott CE, Rudd RJ, Davis AD. Antigen detection, rabies virus isolation, and q-PCR in the quantification of viral load in a natural infection of the North American beaver, Castor Canadensis. J. Wildl Dis. 2015; (1): 287-289.
Zhang T, Victor TR, Rajkumar SS, Li X, Okoniewski JC, Hicks AC, Davis AD, Broussard K, LaDeau SL, Chaturvedi S, Chaturvedi V. Mycobiome of the bat white nose syndrome affected caves and mines reveals diversity of fungi and local adaptation by the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus (Geomyces) destructans. PLoS ONE. 2014; 9 (12): e116149.
Davis AD, Jarvis JA, Pouliott CE, Shannon MDM, Rudd RJ. Susceptibility and Pathogenesis of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) to Heterologous and Homologous Rabies Viruses. Journal of Virology. 2013; 87 (16): 9008-9015.
Davis A, Jarvis J, Pouliott C, Rudd R. Rabies virus infection in Eptesicus fuscus bats born in captivity (Naïve Bats). PLos ONE. 2013; 8 (5): e64808.
Davis AD, Gordy PA, Rudd, RJ, Bowen RA. Effects of aerosolized rabies virus exposure on bats and mice. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2007; 195 (8): 1144-1150.

Rabies

Combs M, Marcinkiewicz AL, Dupuis AP 2nd, Davis AD, Lederman P, Nowak TA, Stout JL, Strle K, Fingerle V, Margos G, Ciota AT, Diuk-Wasser MA, Kolokotronis SO, Lin YP. Phylogenomic Diversity Elucidates Mechanistic Insights into Lyme Borreliae-Host Association. mSystems. 2022; 7 (4): e0048822. DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00488-22
Lin YP, Tufts DM, Combs M, Dupuis AP 2nd, Marcinkiewicz AL, Hirsbrunner AD, Diaz AJ, Stout JL, Blom AM, Strle K, Davis AD, Kramer LD, Kolokotronis SO, Diuk-Wasser MA. Cellular and immunological mechanisms influence host-adapted phenotypes in a vector-borne microparasite. Proc Biol Sci. 2022; 289 (1969): 20212087. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2087
Tufts DM, Goodman LB, Benedict MC, Davis AD, VanAcker MC, Diuk-Wasser M. Association of the invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis tick with vertebrate hosts, other native tick vectors, and tick-borne pathogens in New York City, USA. Int J Parasitol. 2021; 51 (2-3): 149-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.08.008
Hirsbrunner A, Rodriguez-Duran A, Jarvis JA, Rudd RJ, Davis AD. Detection of rabies viral neutralizing antibodies in the Puerto Rican Brachyphylla cavernarum. Infect Ecol Epidemiol. 2020; 10 (1): 1840773. DOI: 10.1080/20008686.2020.1840773
Frank CL, Davis AD, Herzog C. The evolution of a bat population with white-nose syndrome (WNS) reveals a shift from an epizootic to an enzootic phase. Front Zool. 2019; 16 40. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-019-0340-y
Jarvis JA, Brown KT, Appler KA, Fitzgerald DP, Davis AD. Rabies Necropsy Techniques in Large and Small Animals. J Vis Exp. 2019; (149): DOI: 10.3791/59574
Appler K, Brunt S, Jarvis JA, Davis AD. Clarifying Indeterminate Results on the Rabies Direct Fluorescent Antibody Test Using Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction. Public Health Rep. 2019; 134 (1): 57-62. DOI: 10.1177/0033354918810776
Gigante CM, Dettinger L, Powell JW, Seiders M, Condori REC, Griesser R, Okogi K, Carlos M, Pesko K, Breckenridge M, Simon EMM, Chu MYJV, Davis AD, Brunt SJ, Orciari L, Yager P, Carson WC, Hartloge C, Saliki JT, Sanchez S, Deldari M, Hsieh K, Wadhwa A, Wilkins K, Peredo VY, Rabideau P, Gruhn N, Cadet R, Isloor S, Nath SS, Joseph T, Gao J, Wallace R, Reynolds M, Olson VA, Li Y. Multi-site evaluation of the LN34 pan-lyssavirus real-time RT-PCR assay for post-mortem rabies diagnostics. PLoS One. 2018; 13 (5): e0197074. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197074
Lee, W.T., D.D. Jones, J.L. Yates, G. M. Winslow, A.D. Davis, R.J. Rudd, C.T. Barron, and C. Cowan. Identification of secreted and membrane-bound bat immunoglobulin using a Microchiropteran-specific mouse monoclonal antibody. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 2016; 65 114-123. DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2016.06.024
Davis AD, Morgan SM, Dupuis M, Poulliott CE, Jarvis JA, Franchini R, Clobridge A, Rudd RJ. Overwintering of Rabies Virus in Silver Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans). PLoS One. 2016; 11 (5): e0155542. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155542
Jarvis JA, Franke MA, Davis AD. Rabies direct fluorescent antibody test does not inactivate rabies or eastern equine encephalitis viruses. J Virol Methods. 2016; 234 52-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2016.04.005