List of works by Aaron C. Brault

A Zika Vaccine Targeting NS1 Protein Protects Immunocompetent Adult Mice in a Lethal Challenge Model

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

A naturally occurring mutation within the probe-binding region compromises a molecular-based West Nile virus surveillance assay for mosquito pools (Diptera: Culicidae).

scientific article published on July 2012

A novel bacterium-free method for generation of flavivirus infectious DNA by circular polymerase extension reaction allows accurate recapitulation of viral heterogeneity

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

A single positively selected West Nile viral mutation confers increased virogenesis in American crows

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

Acute encephalitis, polyarthritis, and myocarditis associated with West Nile virus infection in a dog.

scientific article published on September 2006

Allele-specific qRT-PCR demonstrates superior detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms as genetic markers for West Nile virus compared to Luminex® and quantitative sequencing

scientific article

An ex vivo avian leukocyte culture model for West Nile virus infection

scientific article

Arbovirus evolution in vivo is constrained by host alternation

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2008)

Avian hosts for West Nile virus in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 2002.

scientific article

Avian hosts of West Nile virus in Arizona

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Avian virulence and thermostable replication of the North American strain of West Nile virus

scientific article published on December 2006

Bunyavirus Taxonomy: Limitations and Misconceptions Associated with the Current ICTV Criteria Used for Species Demarcation.

scientific article

Changing patterns of West Nile virus transmission: altered vector competence and host susceptibility

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Characterization of a novel insect-specific flavivirus from Brazil: potential for inhibition of infection of arthropod cells with medically important flaviviruses

scientific article

Chikungunya and Zika Viruses: Global Emerging Health Threats

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Comparative Vector Competence of North American and for African and European Lineage 2 West Nile Viruses

Comparative pathogenesis of epidemic and enzootic Chikungunya viruses in a pregnant Rhesus macaque model

scientific article

Comparative thermostability of West Nile, St. Louis encephalitis, and western equine encephalomyelitis viruses during heat inactivation for serologic diagnostics

scientific article

Comparing competitive fitness of West Nile virus strains in avian and mosquito hosts

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Continued Need for Comprehensive Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Viruses: Benefits of Complementing Sequence Analyses with Functional Determinations.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Detection of persistent west nile virus RNA in experimentally and naturally infected avian hosts

scientific article

Development and Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against the Nucleoprotein of Heartland Virus

scientific article

Development and Characterization of Recombinant Virus Generated from a New World Zika Virus Infectious Clone

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Development of diagnostic microsphere-based immunoassays for Heartland virus

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Differential Neurovirulence of African and Asian Genotype Zika Virus Isolates in Outbred Immunocompetent Mice

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Differential virulence of West Nile strains for American crows

scientific article

Distribution and phylogenetic comparisons of a novel mosquito flavivirus sequence present in Culex tarsalis Mosquitoes from western Canada with viruses isolated in California and Colorado

scientific article

Duration of seminal Zika viral RNA shedding in immunocompetent mice inoculated with Asian and African genotype viruses

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Ebola Virus Diagnostics: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Sierra Leone, August 2014 to March 2015.

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Ebola Virus Disease Diagnostics, Sierra Leone: Analysis of Real-time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Values for Clinical Blood and Oral Swab Specimens

scientific article

Ebola Virus Epidemiology, Transmission, and Evolution during Seven Months in Sierra Leone

scientific article

Engineered single nucleotide polymorphisms in the mosquito MEK docking site alter Plasmodium berghei development in Anopheles gambiae

scientific article

Envelope and pre-membrane protein structural amino acid mutations mediate diminished avian growth and virulence of a Mexican West Nile virus isolate

scientific article

Envelope glycoprotein mutations mediate equine amplification and virulence of epizootic venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

scientific article published on July 2005

Erratum for Weger-Lucarelli et al., "Development and Characterization of Recombinant Virus Generated from a New World Zika Virus Infectious Clone".

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Evidence for co-evolution of West Nile Virus and house sparrows in North America

scientific article

Evidence of efficient transovarial transmission of Culex flavivirus by Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae).

scientific article published in September 2011

Experimental evolution of an RNA virus in wild birds: evidence for host-dependent impacts on population structure and competitive fitness

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Fatal Human Infection with Evidence of Intrahost Variation of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus, Alabama, USA, 2019

scientific article published on 01 July 2021

Frequent Zika Virus Sexual Transmission and Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding in an Immunodeficient Mouse Model

scientific article (publication date: February 2017)

Generation of a Lineage II Powassan Virus (Deer Tick Virus) cDNA Clone: Assessment of Flaviviral Genetic Determinants of Tick and Mosquito Vector Competence

scholarly article by Joan L Kenney et al published July 2018 in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Genetic and phenotypic characterization of manufacturing seeds for a tetravalent dengue vaccine (DENVax).

scientific article

Genetic determinants of differential oral infection phenotypes of West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viruses in Culex spp. mosquitoes

scientific article

Genetic relationships among Mayaro and Una viruses suggest distinct patterns of transmission.

scientific article

Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Analyses of Chikungunya Virus Reveal Independent Emergences of Recent Epidemics and Various Evolutionary Rates

scientific article published on 6 May 2011

Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses of chikungunya virus reveal independent emergences of recent epidemics and various evolutionary rates

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Genotype-specific variation in West Nile virus dispersal in California

scientific article

Glycosaminoglycan binding properties of natural venezuelan equine encephalitis virus isolates

scientific article

Heartland Virus Epidemiology, Vector Association, and Disease Potential

scholarly article by Aaron C. Brault published in September 2018

Host competence and helicase activity differences exhibited by West Nile viral variants expressing NS3-249 amino acid polymorphisms

scientific article

Identification of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in a hybrid zone of West Nile virus transmission in Fresno County, California.

scientific article

Ilheus virus isolation in the Pantanal, west-central Brazil

scientific article

Increases in the competitive fitness of West Nile virus isolates after introduction into California

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Infection of epididymal epithelial cells and leukocytes drives seminal shedding of Zika virus in a mouse model

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Introductions of West Nile virus strains to Mexico

scientific article

Lack of evidence for Zika virus transmission by Culex mosquitoes

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Limited interdecadal variation in mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) and avian host competence for Western equine encephalomyelitis virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus).

scientific article published in April 2008

MicroRNA reduction of neuronal West Nile virus replication attenuates and affords a protective immune response in mice

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Modes of Transmission of Zika Virus

scientific article published in December 2017

Molecular, serological and in vitro culture-based characterization of Bourbon virus, a newly described human pathogen of the genus Thogotovirus

scientific article

Multiplex qRT-PCR for the Detection of Western Equine Encephalomyelitis, St. Louis Encephalitis, and West Nile Viral RNA in Mosquito Pools (Diptera: Culicidae)

scientific article

Mutations present in a low-passage Zika virus isolate result in attenuated pathogenesis in mice

scientific article published on 7 February 2019

N-linked glycosylation of the West Nile virus envelope protein is not a requisite for avian virulence or vector competence

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

North American West Nile virus genotype isolates demonstrate differential replicative capacities in response to temperature

scientific article

Overwintering of West Nile virus in Southern California.

scientific article

Pathogenesis and sexual transmission of Spondweni and Zika viruses

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Persistence of IgM Antibodies after Vaccination with Live Attenuated Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Phylogenetic analysis of North American West Nile virus isolates, 2001-2004: evidence for the emergence of a dominant genotype

scientific article published on 31 August 2005

Positively charged amino acid substitutions in the e2 envelope glycoprotein are associated with the emergence of venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

scientific article

Potential for Co-Infection of a Mosquito-Specific Flavivirus, Nhumirim Virus, to Block West Nile Virus Transmission in Mosquitoes

scientific article

Prognostic Indicators for Ebola Patient Survival

scientific article

Programmed ribosomal frameshift alters expression of west nile virus genes and facilitates virus replication in birds and mosquitoes

scientific article

Rapid West Nile virus antigen detection

scientific article

Rapid and specific detection of Asian- and African-lineage Zika viruses

scientific article

Recombinant Rift Valley fever vaccines induce protective levels of antibody in baboons and resistance to lethal challenge in mice

scientific article

Reduced avian virulence and viremia of West Nile virus isolates from Mexico and Texas

scientific article

Replication of the primary dog kidney-53 dengue 2 virus vaccine candidate in Aedes aegypti is modulated by a mutation in the 5' untranslated region and amino acid substitutions in nonstructural proteins 1 and 3.

scientific article published on February 2011

Rescue and Characterization of Recombinant Virus from a New World Zika Virus Infectious Clone

scientific article published on 07 June 2017

Restriction of Zika virus infection and transmission in Aedes aegypti mediated by an insect-specific flavivirus

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Sequence analyses of 2012 West Nile virus isolates from Texas fail to associate viral genetic factors with outbreak magnitude

scientific article published on July 2013

Serological investigation of heartland virus (Bunyaviridae: Phlebovirus) exposure in wild and domestic animals adjacent to human case sites in Missouri 2012-2013

scientific article

Seroprevalence of Powassan virus in New England deer, 1979-2010

scientific article published on 08 April 2013

Sexual transmission of Zika virus enhances in utero transmission in a mouse model

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Stone Lakes virus (family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus), a variant of Fort Morgan virus isolated from swallow bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) west of the Continental Divide

scientific article

Structural gene (prME) chimeras of St Louis encephalitis virus and West Nile virus exhibit altered in vitro cytopathic and growth phenotypes

scientific article

Susceptibility of Carrion Crows to Experimental Infection with Lineage 1 and 2 West Nile Viruses

scientific article published in August 2015

Susceptibility of European jackdaws (Corvus monedula) to experimental infection with lineage 1 and 2 West Nile viruses

scientific article

The Development of Small Animal Models for Zika Virus Vaccine Efficacy Testing and Pathological Assessment

scientific article

The contribution of rodent models to the pathological assessment of flaviviral infections of the central nervous system

scientific article

The role of environmental, virological and vector interactions in dictating biological transmission of arthropod-borne viruses by mosquitoes

scientific article published on January 2014

Transmission Incompetence of Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex pipiens pipiens from North America for Zika Virus

scientific article

Variation in virulence of West Nile virus strains for house sparrows (Passer domesticus).

scientific article published on January 2005

Variation in western equine encephalomyelitis viral strain growth in mammalian, avian, and mosquito cells fails to explain temporal changes in enzootic and epidemic activity in California

scientific article

Vector infection determinants of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus reside within the E2 envelope glycoprotein

scientific article

Venezuelan equine encephalitis emergence: enhanced vector infection from a single amino acid substitution in the envelope glycoprotein

scholarly article

Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus in the guinea pig model: evidence for epizootic virulence determinants outside the E2 envelope glycoprotein gene.

scientific article published in March 2005

Vertebrate Host Susceptibility to Heartland Virus

scientific article

Virulence and Evolution of West Nile Virus, Australia, 1960-2012

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Virulence variation among isolates of western equine encephalitis virus in an outbred mouse model

scientific article

West Nile Virus Temperature Sensitivity and Avian Virulence Are Modulated by NS1-2B Polymorphisms

scientific article

West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viral genetic determinants of avian host competence

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

West Nile virus detection in nonvascular feathers from avian carcasses

scientific article published on September 2009

West Nile virus growth is independent of autophagy activation

scientific article

West Nile virus in North America: perspectives on epidemiology and intervention

scientific article published on July 2007

West Nile virus infection in a green-winged macaw (Ara chloropterus).

scientific article published on March 2010

West Nile virus infection of birds, Mexico

scientific article published in December 2011

West Nile virus isolated from a Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in northwestern Missouri, USA, 2012.

scientific article published on 6 August 2014

Zika Virus Shedding in Semen of Symptomatic Infected Men.

scientific article published in April 2018