Publications

Here are some publications by researchers involved with SSI, arranged by topic (the links will open to a PDF document in a new window):

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Dengue

• 2011 Narvaez, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Submitted) "Evaluation of the Traditional and Revised WHO Classifications of Dengue Disease Severity"
• 2011 Gutierrez, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Submitted) "Unusual Dengue Virus 3 Epidemic in Nicaragua, 2009"
• 2010 Standish, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases "High Dengue Case Capture Rate in Four Years of a Cohort Study in Nicaragua Compared to National Surveillance Data"
• 2010 Reyes, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. "Index Cluster Study of Dengue Virus Infection in Nicaragua"
• 2010 Perez, et al. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal  "Severe Coinfections of Dengue and Pandemic Infuenza A H1N1 Viruses"
• 2010 Loke, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases  "Gene expression patterns of dengue virus-infected children from Nicaragua reveal a distinct signature of increased metabolism"
• 2010 Guzman, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases  "Multi-Country Evaluation of the Sensitivity and Specificity of Two Commercially-Available NS1 ELISA Assays for Dengue Diagnosis"
• 2010 Durbin, et al. Virology  "Phenotyping of peripheral blood mononuclear cells during acute dengue illness demonstrates infection and increased activation of monocytes in severe cases compared to classic dengue fever"
• 2010 Balmaseda, et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. "Trends in Patterns of Dengue Transmission over 4 Years in a Pediatric Cohort Study in Nicaragua"
• 2009 Kuan, et al. American Journal of Epidemiology "The Nicaraguan Pediatric Dengue Cohort Study: Study Design, Methods, Use of Information Technology, and Extension to Other Infectious Diseases"
• 2009 Rocha, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. "Improvement in Hospital Indicators after Changes in Dengue Case Management in Nicaragua"
• 2008 Balmaseda, et al. Journal of Clinical Virology "Evaluation of immunological markers in serum, filter-paper blood spots, and saliva for dengue diagnosis and epidemiological studies"
• 2007 Colbert, et al. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal  "Ultrasound Measurement of Gallbladder Wall Thickening as a Diagnostic Test and Prognostic Indicator for Severe Dengue in Pediatric Patients"
• 2006 Deen et al. Lancet "The WHO dengue classification and case definitions: time for a reassessment"
• 2006 Balmaseda, et al. Tropical Medicine and International Health "High seroprevalence of antibodies against dengue virus in a prospective study of schoolchildren in Managua, Nicaragua"
• 2006 Balmaseda, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. "Serotype-Specific Differences In Clinical Manifestations Of Dengue"
• 2005 Videa, et al. Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology "Immunoglobulin M Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Recombinant Polypeptides for Diagnosis of Dengue"
• 2005 Hammond, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. "Differences in Dengue Severity in Infants, Children, and Adults in a 3-Year Hospital-Based Study in Nicaragua"
• 2005 Balmaseda, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Short Report: Assessment of The World Health Organization Scheme for Classification of Dengue Severity in Nicaragua"
• 2003 Messer, et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases "Emergence and Global Spread of a Dengue Serotype 3, Subtype III Virus"
• 2003 Balmaseda, et al. Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology "Diagnosis of Dengue Virus Infection by Detection of Specific Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgA Antibodies in Serum and Saliva"
• 2003 Harris, et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases  "Fluid Intake and Decreased Risk for Hospitalization for Dengue Fever, Nicaragua"
• 2000 Harris, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Virologic Features of Dengue in the 1998 Epidemic in Nicaragua"
• 2000 Miagostovich, et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology "Rapid Subtyping of Dengue Virus Serotypes 1 and 4 by Restriction Site-Specific PCR"
• 1999 Harris, et al Virology "Rapid Subtyping of Dengue Viruses by Restriction Site-Specific (RSS)-PCR"
• 1999 Balmaseda, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Application of Molecular Typing Techniques in the 1998 Dengue Epidemic in Nicaragua"
• 1998 Harris, et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology "Typing of Dengue Viruses in Clinical Specimens and Mosquitoes by Single-Tube Multiplex Reverse Transcriptase PCR"

Influenza

• 2010 Yozwiak, et al. Journal of Virology "Human Enterovirus 109: a Novel Interspecies Recombinant Enterovirus Isolated from a Case of Acute Pediatric Respiratory Illness in Nicaragua"
• 2010 Perez, et al. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal  "Severe Coinfections of Dengue and Pandemic Influenza A H1N1 Viruses"
• 2010 Gordon, et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases "Clinical Attack Rate and Presentation of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza versus Seasonal Influenza A and B in a Pediatric Cohort in Nicaragua"
• 2010 Gordon, et al. PLoS ONE "Diagnostic Accuracy of a Rapid Influenza Test for Pandemic Influenza A H1N1"
• 2009 Gordon, et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases  "Prevalence and Seasonality of Influenza-like Illness in Children, Nicaragua, 2005–2007"
• 2009 Gordon, et al. PLoS ONE "Performance of an Influenza Rapid Test in Children in a Primary Healthcare Setting in Nicaragua"

Information Technology

• 2010 PAHO Immunization Newsletter IMeCA2010 "Reuniones subregionales sobre enfermedades prevenibles por vacunación, 2010" (en Español)
• 2009 IMeCA2009 Outcome Report "Meeting and Workshop Outcome Report Summary" (en Español)
• 2009 Kuan, et al. American Journal of Epidemiology "The Nicaraguan Pediatric Dengue Cohort Study: Study Design, Methods, Use of Information Technology, and Extension to Other Infectious Diseases"
• 2008 Aviles, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Quantitative Assessment of the Benefits of Specific Information Technologies Applied to Clinical Studies in Developing Countries"
• 2007 Aviles, et al. PLoS Medicine "Integration of Information Technologies in Clinical Studies in Nicaragua"

Leishmania

• 2007 Rodriguez, et al. Parasite Immunology "Atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis cases display elevated antigen-induced interleukin-10"
• 1999 Belli, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Widespread Atypical Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused By Leishmania (L.) Chagasi In Nicaragua"
• 1998 Harris, et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology "Single-Step Multiplex PCR Assay for Characterization of New World Leishmania Complexes"
• 1998 Belli, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Simplified Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of New World Leishmania in Clinical Specimens of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis"

Mosquito Vectors

• 2007 Hammond, et al. Journal of Medical Entomology "Characterization of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culcidae) Production Sites in Urban Nicaragua"
• 2005 Lugo, et al. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association "Identification of Aedes albopictus in Urban Nicaragua"

Scientific Capacity Building

• 2009 Harris, Coloma & Zoer The New Humanitarians  "Sustainable Sciences Institute: Developing Scientific Capacity to Address Public Health Needs Worldwide"
• 2009 Coloma & Harris PLoS Medicine "Molecular Genomic Approaches to Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Settings"
• 2009 Coloma & Harris PloS Biology  "From Construction Workers to Architects: Developing Scientific Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries"
• 2008 Coloma & Harris New York Academy of Sciences "Sustainable Transfer of Biotechnology to Developing Countries" 
• 2005 Coloma & Harris PLoS Pathogens "Open-Access Science: A Necessity for Global Public Health"
• 2004 Harris EMBO Reports "Building scientific capacity in developing countries"
• 2004 Coloma & Harris British Medical Journal "Innovative low cost technologies for biomedical research and diagnosis in developing countries"
• 2000 Harris & Tanner British Medical Journal "Health technology transfer"
• 1996 Harris Nature Medicine "Developing essential scientific capability in countries with limited resources"

UC Berkeley

• 2011 Peña & Harris Journal of Biological Chemistry "Dengue Virus Modulates the Unfolded Protein Response in a Time-dependent Manner"
• 2010 Beltramello, et al. Cell Host & Microbe "The Human Immune Response to Dengue Virus Is Dominated by Highly Cross-Reactive Antibodies Endowed with Neutralizing and Enhancing Activity"
• 2010 Balsitis, et al. PLoS Pathogens "Lethal Antibody Enhancement of Dengue Disease in Mice Is Prevented by Fc Modification"
• 2009 Polacek, et al. Journal of General Virology "Poly(A)-binding protein binds to the nonpolyadenylated 3' untranslated region of dengue virus and modulates translation efficiency" PABP 2009.pdf
• 2009 Balsitis, et al. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg "Tropism of Dengue Virus in Mice and Humans Defined by Viral Nonstructural Protein 3-Specific Immunostaining" 
• 2009 Polacek, et al. Journal of Virology "Conformational Changes in the Solution Structure of the Dengue Virus 5' End in the Presence and Absence of the 3' Untranslated Region"
• 2009 Williams, et al. New York Academy of Sciences  "A Mouse Model for Studying Dengue Virus Pathogenesis and Immune Response"
• 2008 Kyle, et al. Virology "Antibodies play a greater role than immune cells in heterologous protection against secondary dengue virus infection in a mouse model"
• 2008 Clyde, et al. Virology "The capsid-coding region hairpin element (cHP) is a critical determinant of dengue virus and West Nile virus RNA synthesis"
• 2008 Kwan, et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases  "Dermal-Type Macrophages Expressing CD209/DC-SIGN Show Inherent Resistance to Dengue Virus Growth"
• 2007 Paranjape & Harris Journal of Biological Chemistry "Y Box-binding Protein-1 Binds to the Dengue Virus 3'-Untranslated Region and Mediates Antiviral Effects" YB-1 2007.pdf
• 2007 Kyle, et al. Journal of Infectious Diseases "Dengue Virus Infects Macrophages and Dendritic Cells in a Mouse Model of Infection"
• 2006 Clyde, et al. Journal of Virology "Recent Advances in Deciphering Viral and Host Determinants of Dengue Virus Replication and Pathogenesis"
• 2006 Shresta, et al. Journal of Virology "Murine Model for Dengue Virus-Induced Lethal Disease with Increased Vascular Permeability"
• 2006 Holden, et al. Virology "Inhibition of dengue virus translation and RNA synthesis by a morpholino oligomer targeted to the top of the terminal 3V stem–loop structure"
• 2006 Edgil, et al. Journal of Virology "Dengue Virus Utilizes a Novel Strategy for Translation Initiation When Cap-Dependent Translation Is Inhibited"
• 2006 Clyde & Harris Journal of Virology "RNA Secondary Structure in the Coding Region of Dengue Virus Type 2 Directs Translation Start Codon Selection and Is Required for Viral Replication"
• 2005 Shresta, et al Journal of Immunology "Critical Roles for Both STAT1-Dependent and STAT1-Independent Pathways in the Control of Primary Dengue Virus Infection in Mice"
• 2005 Kwan, et al. Journal of Virology "Dendritic Cell Precursors Are Permissive to Dengue Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection"
• 2004 Shresta, et al. Virology "Early activation of natural killer and B cells in response to primary dengue virus infection in A/J mice"
• 2004 Shresta, et al. Journal of Virology "Interferon-Dependent Immunity Is Essential for Resistance to Primary Dengue Virus Infection in Mice, Whereas T- and B-Cell-Dependent Immunity Are Less Critical"
• 2003 Messer, et al. Emerging Infectious Diseases "Emergence and Global Spread of a Dengue Serotype 3, Subtype III Virus"
• 2003 Edgil, et al. Virology  "Translation efficiency determines differences in cellular infection among dengue virus type 2 strains"
• 2002 Diamond, et al. Virology "Mycophenolic Acid Inhibits Dengue Virus Infection by Preventing Replication of Viral RNA"
• 2001 Diamond & Harris Virology "Interferon Inhibits Dengue Virus Infection by Preventing Translation of Viral RNA through a PKR-Independent Mechanism"
• 2000 Diamond, et al. Journal of Virology "Infection of Human Cells by Dengue Virus Is Modulated by Different Cell Types and Viral Strains"
• 2000 Diamond, et al. Journal of Virology "Modulation of Dengue Virus Infection in Human Cells by Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Interferons"