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List of works by Eric M Leroy

2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

A chikungunya outbreak associated with the vector Aedes albopictus in remote villages of Gabon

scientific article

A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples

scientific article

A fresh look at the origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the most malignant malaria agent

Scientific Article about Malaria from PLoS Pathogens

A limited outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Etoumbi, Republic of Congo, 2005.

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

A new malaria agent in African hominids

scientific article published in May 2009

A novel rhabdovirus associated with acute hemorrhagic fever in central Africa

scientific article published in September 2012

A serological survey of Ebola virus infection in central African nonhuman primates.

scientific article

Acute dengue virus 2 infection in Gabonese patients is associated with an early innate immune response, including strong interferon alpha production

scientific article

African Non-Human Primates Host Diverse Enteroviruses

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article

African monkeys are infected by Plasmodium falciparum nonhuman primate-specific strains

scientific article

Anthrax in Western and Central African great apes

scientific article published on September 2006

Association of HLA class-I and inhibitory KIR genotypes in Gabonese patients infected by Chikungunya or Dengue type-2 viruses

scientific article

Association of KIR2DS1 and KIR2DS3 with fatal outcome in Ebola virus infection

scientific article

Bas-Congo virus: another deadly virus?

scientific article published in February 2013

Bat distribution size or shape as determinant of viral richness in african bats

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Bats worldwide carry hepatitis E virus-related viruses that form a putative novel genus within the family Hepeviridae

scientific article (publication date: September 2012)

Bats, reserves of the Ebola virus: the mystery is dissipated

scientific article

Change in salt intake affects blood pressure of chimpanzees: implications for human populations

scientific article

Characterization of a genogroup I sapovirus isolated from chimpanzees in the republic of congo

scientific article

Chikungunya virus adapts to tiger mosquito via evolutionary convergence: a sign of things to come?

scientific article

Chikungunya, a paradigm of neglected tropical disease that emerged to be a new health global risk

scientific article

Clinical forms of chikungunya in Gabon, 2010

scientific article

Co-circulation of two envelope variants for both gorilla and chimpanzee Simian Foamy Virus strains among humans and apes living in Central Africa.

scientific article

Cocirculation of Two env Molecular Variants, of Possible Recombinant Origin, in Gorilla and Chimpanzee Simian Foamy Virus Strains from Central Africa

scientific article

Comparative role of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the emergence of Dengue and Chikungunya in central Africa

scientific article published on April 2010

Complete genome sequence of mumps virus genotype g from a vaccinated child in franceville, southeastern Gabon, in 2013.

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Concurrent Chikungunya and Dengue Virus Infections during Simultaneous Outbreaks, Gabon, 2007

scientific article (publication date: April 2009)

Control of acute dengue virus infection by natural killer cells

scientific article

Correction: A Novel Rhabdovirus Associated with Acute Hemorrhagic Fever in Central Africa

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Corrigendum to "Phylogenetic analysis of a newfound bat-borne hantavirus supports a Laurasiatherian host association for ancestral mammalian hantaviruses" [Infect. Genet. Evol. 41 (2016) 113-119].

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Cross-species transmission of simian foamy virus to humans in rural Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 9 November 2011

Cutaneous manifestations of filovirus infections

scientific article published on September 2012

Detection of Ebola virus in oral fluid specimens during outbreaks of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever in the Republic of Congo.

scientific article

Detection of human bocavirus-1 in both nasal and stool specimens from children under 5 years old with influenza-like illnesses or diarrhea in Gabon

scholarly article by Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki et al published 20 July 2018 in BMC Research Notes

Development of an immunofiltration-based antigen-detection assay for rapid diagnosis of Ebola virus infection

scientific article

Discussions and decisions of the 2012–2014 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Filoviridae Study Group, January 2012–June 2013.

scientific article published on April 2014

Early introduction and delayed dissemination of pandemic influenza, Gabon

scientific article

Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fever viruses: major scientific advances, but a relatively minor public health threat for Africa.

scientific article published on July 2011

Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fever.

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Gabon, 1994-1997: epidemiologic and health control issues.

scientific article

Ebola in West Africa: the outbreak able to change many things.

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Ebola outbreaks in 2014.

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

Ebola virus antibody prevalence in dogs and human risk

scientific article

Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Emergence of G12 rotavirus diarrhea in childhood in Libreville

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Emergence of divergent Zaire ebola virus strains in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007 and 2008

scientific article published on November 2011

Epidemiology of concomitant infection due to Loa loa and Mansonella perstans in Gabon

scientific article

Evidence for Ebola virus superantigen activity

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Evidence for an Ancestral Association of Human Coronavirus 229E with Bats

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents

scientific article published in 2013

Evidence for widespread infection of African bats with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever-like viruses

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Evidence of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) in domestic mice in Gabon: risk of emergence of LCMV encephalitis in Central Africa

scientific article

Evolution in fecal bacterial/viral composition in infants of two central African countries (Gabon and Republic of the Congo) during their first month of life

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Filovirus RefSeq entries: evaluation and selection of filovirus type variants, type sequences, and names

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Filovirus research in Gabon and equatorial Africa: the experience of a research center in the heart of Africa

scientific article

First Detection of an Enterovirus C99 in a Captive Chimpanzee with Acute Flaccid Paralysis, from the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

First evidence of simultaneous circulation of three different dengue virus serotypes in Africa

scientific article

First serological evidence of West Nile virus in human rural populations of Gabon

scientific article

Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus

scientific article (publication date: December 2005)

Full-length genome analyses of two new simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strains from mustached monkeys (C. Cephus) in Gabon illustrate a complex evolutionary history among the SIVmus/mon/gsn lineage

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Genome-wide profiling of human papillomavirus DNA integration in liquid-based cytology specimens from a Gabonese female population using HPV capture technology

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Haemosporidian Parasites of Antelopes and Other Vertebrates from Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article

Haemosporidian Parasites of Reptiles and Birds from Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

High Prevalence and Diversity of Hepatitis Viruses in Suspected Cases of Yellow Fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article

High prevalence of both humoral and cellular immunity to Zaire ebolavirus among rural populations in Gabon

scientific article published in 2010

Human Ebola outbreak resulting from direct exposure to fruit bats in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007.

scientific article published on December 2009

Human fatal zaire ebola virus infection is associated with an aberrant innate immunity and with massive lymphocyte apoptosis

scientific article

Human papillomavirus detection using the Abbott RealTime high-risk HPV tests compared with conventional nested PCR coupled to high-throughput sequencing of amplification products in cervical smear specimens from a Gabonese female population

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Identification of Dengue and Chikungunya Cases Among Suspected Cases of Yellow Fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Identification of an unclassified paramyxovirus in Coleura afra: a potential case of host specificity

scientific article

Identification of continuous human B-cell epitopes in the VP35, VP40, nucleoprotein and glycoprotein of Ebola virus

scientific article

Immunoglobulin G in Ebola outbreak survivors, Gabon

scientific article published on July 2009

Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Inflammatory responses in Ebola virus-infected patients.

scientific article published on April 2002

Is Marburg virus enzootic in Gabon?

scientific article

Isolates of Zaire ebolavirus from wild apes reveal genetic lineage and recombinants

scholarly article

Large serological survey showing cocirculation of Ebola and Marburg viruses in Gabonese bat populations, and a high seroprevalence of both viruses in Rousettus aegyptiacus

scientific article

Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Killer Cells in Dengue Virus-Infected Patients in Comparison to Chikungunya and Chikungunya/Dengue Virus-Infected Patients

scientific article

Malaria continues to select for sickle cell trait in Central Africa

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Marburg virus infection detected in a common African bat

scientific article published in 2007

Men, primates, and germs: an ongoing affair

scientific article published on January 2013

Molecular analysis of human Papillomavirus detected among women positive for cervical lesions by visual inspection with acetic acid/Lugol's iodine (VIA/VILI) in Libreville, Gabon

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

Molecular characterization of Orf virus in goats in Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Molecular characterization of complete genome of a canine distemper virus associated with fatal infection in dogs in Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Molecular epidemiology of enteric viruses and genotyping of rotavirus A, adenovirus and astrovirus among children under 5 years old in Gabon

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Molecular identification of trypanosome species in trypanotolerant cattle from the south of Gabon

scientific article

Molecular systematics and phylogeography of the tribe Myonycterini (Mammalia, Pteropodidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers

scientific article

Molecular typing of PPRV strains detected during an outbreak in sheep and goats in south-eastern Gabon in 2011.

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

Multiple independent introductions of Plasmodium falciparum in South America

scientific article

New STLV-3 strains and a divergent SIVmus strain identified in non-human primate bushmeat in Gabon

scientific article

No clinical or biological difference between Chikungunya and Dengue Fever during the 2010 Gabonese outbreak

scientific article published on 03 January 2012

No evidence for ape Plasmodium infections in humans in Gabon

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

No evidence of dengue virus circulation in rural Gabon

scientific article published in August 2011

Nomenclature- and database-compatible names for the two Ebola virus variants that emerged in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014.

scientific article

Occurrence of hepatitis viruses in wild-born non-human primates: a 3 year (1998-2001) epidemiological survey in Gabon.

scientific article published on December 2003

Phyloepidemiological Analysis Reveals that Viral Divergence Led to the Paucity of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVmus/gsn/mon Infections in Wild Populations

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Phylogenetic analysis of a newfound bat-borne hantavirus supports a laurasiatherian host association for ancestral mammalian hantaviruses

scientific article

Phylogeography, risk factors and genetic history of hepatitis C virus in Gabon, central Africa

scientific article

Possibility and Challenges of Conversion of Current Virus Species Names to Linnaean Binomials

scientific article

Prevalence and molecular diversity of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus in urban and rural populations in northern Gabon in central Africa

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in asymptomatic rural Gabonese populations

scientific article

Prevalence of the sickle cell trait in Gabon: a nationwide study

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

Re-emergence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Central Africa

scientific article

Recent common ancestry of Ebola Zaire virus found in a bat reservoir

scientific article published in October 2006

Recent introduction and rapid dissemination of Chikungunya virus and Dengue virus serotype 2 associated with human and mosquito coinfections in Gabon, central Africa.

scientific article

Rift Valley fever virus seroprevalence in human rural populations of Gabon

scientific article

Risk factors for Zaire ebolavirus--specific IgG in rural Gabonese populations

scientific article published on November 2011

Robustness against serum neutralization of a poliovirus type 1 from a lethal epidemic of poliomyelitis in the Republic of Congo in 2010.

scientific article

Sequence analysis of the GP, NP, VP40 and VP24 genes of Ebola virus isolated from deceased, surviving and asymptomatically infected individuals during the 1996 outbreak in Gabon: comparative studies and phylogenetic characterization

scientific article published on January 2002

Serological Evidence for the Circulation of Rift Valley Fever Virus in Domestic Small Ruminants in Southern Gabon

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of a Mortality Event among Central African Great Apes

scientific article

Spatial and temporal patterns of Zaire ebolavirus antibody prevalence in the possible reservoir bat species.

scientific article

Surveys on seroprevalence of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis among dogs living in the Ivory Coast and Gabon and evaluation of a quick commercial test kit dot-ELISA.

scientific article published in October 2006

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: second update 2018

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

scientific article published in August 2016

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017.

scientific article

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2019

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

The acute phase of Chikungunya virus infection in humans is associated with strong innate immunity and T CD8 cell activation

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

The host specificity of ape malaria parasites can be broken in confined environments

scientific article

The natural history of Ebola virus in Africa

scientific article

Unconventional repertoire profile is imprinted during acute chikungunya infection for natural killer cells polarization toward cytotoxicity

scientific article

Viral etiology and seasonality of influenza-like illness in Gabon, March 2010 to June 2011.

scientific article

Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for filovirus strains and variants rescued from cDNA

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for laboratory animal-adapted strains and variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for natural variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

Wild animal mortality monitoring and human Ebola outbreaks, Gabon and Republic of Congo, 2001-2003

scientific article

Zika virus in Gabon (Central Africa)--2007: a new threat from Aedes albopictus?

scientific article