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  1. Detection of Dobrava hantavirus RNA inApodemusmice in Bulgaria

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  2. Foreword to the Virus Research Special issue on “Hantaviruses”

    Article • Virus Research, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  3. Evolution of hantaviruses: Co-speciation with reservoir hosts for more than 100MYR

    Article • Virus Research, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  4. Co-Circulation of Multiple Hemorrhagic Fever Diseases with Distinct Clinical Characteristics in Dandong, China

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2014, PLOS

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  5. Ongoing Spillover of Hantaan and Gou Hantaviruses from Rodents Is Associated with Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) in China

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 2013, PLOS

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  6. Pet rat harbouring Seoul hantavirus in Sweden, June 2013

    Article • Eurosurveillance, July 2013, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  7. Pet rat harbouring Seoul hantavirus in Sweden, June 2013

    Article • Eurosurveillance, July 2013, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  8. Microevolution of Puumala hantavirus during a Complete Population Cycle of Its Host, the Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus)

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  9. Hantavirus infection: an emerging infectious disease causing acute renal failure

    Article • Kidney International, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  10. Analysis of Complete Puumala Virus Genome, Finland

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, December 2012, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  11. Dynamics of hantavirus infections in humans and animals in Wuhan city, Hubei, China

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  12. Analysis of Complete Puumala Virus Genome, Finland

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2012, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  13. Mutational analysis of positively charged amino acid residues of Uukuniemi phlebovirus nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Virus Research, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin, Dr Alexander N Freiberg

  14. Genetic characterization of seoul hantavirus originated from norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) captured in Belgium

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  15. Microevolution of Puumala hantavirus during a complete population cycle of its host, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus)

    Article • International Journal of Infectious Diseases, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  16. Searching for Cellular Partners of Hantaviral Nonstructural Protein NSs: Y2H Screening of Mouse cDNA Library and Analysis of Cellular Interactome

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2012, PLOS

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  17. Co-circulation of two Puumala hantavirus lineages in Latvia: A russian lineage described previously and a novel Latvian lineage

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  18. A new subtype of Thottapalayam virus carried by the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) in China

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  19. Young male patients are at elevated risk of developing serious central nervous system complications during acute Puumala hantavirus infection

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  20. Genetic evidence for the presence of two distinct hantaviruses associated with Apodemus mice in Croatia and analysis of local strains

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  21. Oligomerization of Uukuniemi virus nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Virology Journal, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin, Dr Alexander N Freiberg

  22. Hantavirus Infections in Humans and Animals, China

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 2010, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin, Dr Zhen F Fu

  23. Interaction between hantaviral nucleocapsid protein and the cytoplasmic tail of surface glycoprotein Gn

    Article • Virus Research, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  24. Central nervous system-related symptoms and findings are common in acute Puumala hantavirus infection

    Article • Annals of Medicine, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  25. Hantaviruses in small mammals and humans in the coastal region of Zhejiang Province, China

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, May 2010, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  26. Tula hantavirus NSs protein accumulates in the perinuclear area in infected and transfected cells

    Article • Archives of Virology, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  27. Co-circulation of three pathogenic hantaviruses: Puumala, Dobrava, and Saaremaa in Hungary

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  28. Hantaviruses in Rodents and Humans, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, June 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  29. Seoul Virus and Hantavirus Disease, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, February 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  30. A newly recognized hantavirus in the Asian house rat (Rattus tanezumi) in Indonesia

    Article • Journal of General Virology, January 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  31. Genetic analysis of hantaviruses carried by reed voles Microtus fortis in China

    Article • Virus Research, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  32. Unique signature amino acid substitution in Baltic tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains within the Siberian TBEV subtype

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  33. Oligomerization of hantaviral nucleocapsid protein: charged residues in the N-terminal coiled-coil domain contribute to intermolecular interactions

    Article • Journal of General Virology, September 2008, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  34. Pathology of Puumala Hantavirus Infection in Macaques

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2008, PLOS

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  35. How to diagnose hantavirus infections and detect them in rodents and insectivores

    Article • Reviews in Medical Virology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  36. Quasispecies dynamics and fixation of a synonymous mutation in hantavirus transmission

    Article • Journal of General Virology, May 2008, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  37. New Genetic Lineage of Tula Hantavirus in Microtus arvalis obscurus in Eastern Kazakhstan

    Article • The Open Virology Journal, April 2008, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  38. Nucleocapsid Protein of Hantaviruses ( Bunyaviridae ): Structure and Functions

    Article • January 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  39. Tula hantavirus isolate with the full-length ORF for nonstructural protein NSs survives for more consequent passages in interferon-competent cells than the isolate having truncated NSs ORF

    Article • Virology Journal, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  40. Genetic analysis of hantaviruses carried by Myodes and Microtus rodents in Buryatia

    Article • Virology Journal, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  41. Isolation and genetic characterization of hantaviruses carried byMicrotus voles in China

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  42. Characterization of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Caused by Hantaviruses, Estonia

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2007, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  43. Puumala virus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid in a patient with uncomplicated nephropathia epidemica

    Article • Journal of Clinical Virology, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  44. Puumala and Tula hantaviruses in France

    Article • Virus Research, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  45. Puumala hantavirus in Slovenia: Analyses of S and M segment sequences recovered from patients and rodents

    Article • Virus Research, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  46. Tula and Puumala hantavirus NSs ORFs are functional and the products inhibit activation of the interferon-beta promoter

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin, Friedemann Weber

  47. Oligomerization of Hantavirus Nucleocapsid Protein: Analysis of the N-Terminal Coiled-Coil Domain

    Article • Journal of Virology, September 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  48. Tickborne Encephalitis Virus, Norway and Denmark

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2006, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  49. Genetic analysis of Puumala hantavirus strains from Austria

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  50. Oligomerization and RNA binding capacity of Uukuniemi Bunyavirus nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Journal of Clinical Virology, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  51. Real-time PCR detection of Puumala Hantavirus RNA in nephropathia epidemica patients

    Article • Journal of Clinical Virology, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  52. Hantavirus nucleocapsid protein: a multifunctional molecule with both housekeeping and ambassadorial duties

    Article • Archives of Virology, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  53. Oligomerization of Hantavirus N Protein: C-Terminal α-Helices Interact To Form a Shared Hydrophobic Space

    Article • Journal of Virology, December 2004, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  54. L protein, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of hantaviruses

    Article • Archives of Virology, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  55. Characterization of tick-borne encephalitis virus from Estonia

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, October 2004, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  56. Saaremaa hantavirus in Denmark

    Article • Journal of Clinical Virology, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  57. Identification of Seoul Hantavirus in Rattus norvegicus in Indonesia

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  58. Genetic analysis of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Iran

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  59. Hantavirus infections in Europe — Authors' reply

    Article • The Lancet Infectious Diseases, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  60. Mapping of the Regions Involved in Homotypic Interactions of Tula Hantavirus N Protein

    Article • Journal of Virology, October 2003, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  61. Characterisation of human tick-borne encephalitis virus from Sweden

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  62. Hantavirus Infections in Europe

    Article • The Lancet Infectious Diseases, October 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  63. Non-covalent interaction between nucleocapsid protein of Tula hantavirus and small ubiquitin-related modifier-1, SUMO-1

    Article • Virus Research, March 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  64. Corrigendum to “Phylogenetic evidence for host switching in the evolution of the hantaviruses carried by Apodemus mice”

    Article • Virus Research, March 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  65. Genetic characterization of new Dobrava hantavirus isolate from Greece

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  66. Phylogenetic evidence for host switching in the evolution of hantaviruses carried by Apodemus mice

    Article • Virus Research, December 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  67. Hantaviruses in Estonia

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, October 2002, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  68. Hantavirus Infections in Latvia

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, August 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  69. Hypophyseal Hemorrhage and Panhypopituitarism during Puumala Virus Infection: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Detection of Viral Antigen in the Hypophysis

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, July 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  70. TBE foci in Estonia

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, June 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  71. Genetics of hantaviruses: implications to taxonomy

    Article • Archives of Virology, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  72. Tula hantavirus in Belgium

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, April 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  73. Transfection-mediated generation of functionally competent Tula hantavirus with recombinant S RNA segment

    Article • The EMBO Journal, March 2002, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  74. Distribution of Puumala Hantavirus in Denmark: Analysis of Bank Voles ( Clethrionomys glareolus ) from Fyn and Jutland

    Article • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, March 2002, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  75. Serological divergence of Dobrava and Saaremaa hantaviruses: evidence for two distinct serotypes

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, February 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  76. Wild-Type Puumala Hantavirus Infection Induces Cytokines, C-Reactive Protein, Creatinine, and Nitric Oxide in Cynomolgus Macaques

    Article • Journal of Virology, January 2002, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  77. Molecular Epidemiology of Hantavirus Infections

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  78. Molecular Evolution of Puumala Hantavirus

    Article • Journal of Virology, December 2001, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  79. Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus in Lithuania

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, December 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  80. Isolation of Dobrava Virus from Apodemus flavicollis in Greece

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, ASM Journals

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  81. Hantavirus infections in Europe

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  82. Characterization of tick-borne encephalitis virus from latvia: Evidence for co-circulation of three distinct subtypes

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  83. Virus Evolution and Genetic Diversity of Hantaviruses and Their Rodent Hosts

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  84. Hantavirus Infections Among Mammalogists Studied by Focus Reduction Neutralisation Test

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, November 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  85. Antigenic properties and diagnostic potential of recombinant Dobrava virus nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  86. Antigenic properties and diagnostic potential of recombinant Dobrava virus nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  87. A neutralizing recombinant human antibody Fab fragment against Puumala hantavirus

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, April 2000, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  88. Dobrava hantavirus in Russia

    Article • The Lancet, January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  89. Human Dobrava hantavirus infections in Estonia

    Article • The Lancet, August 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  90. Dobrava hantavirus outbreak in Russia

    Article • The Lancet, September 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  91. Sequence analysis of the Puumala hantavirus Sotkamo strain L segment

    Article • Virus Research, September 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  92. Dobrava hantavirus in Estonia: does the virus exist throughout Europe?

    Article • The Lancet, May 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  93. Alexander Plyusnin

    Article • The Lancet, April 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  94. Characterization of Tula virus antigenic determinants defined by monoclonal antibodies raised against baculovirus-expressed nucleocapsid protein

    Article • Virus Research, November 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  95. Hantaviruses: genome structure, expression and evolution

    Article • Journal of General Virology, November 1996, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  96. Newly recognised hantavirus in Siberian lemmings

    Article • The Lancet, June 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  97. Unique and conserved features of tula hantavirus M gene encoding envelope glycoproteins G1 and G2

    Article • Virus Genes, January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  98. Genetic variation in Tula hantaviruses: sequence analysis of the S and M segments of strains from Central Europe

    Article • Virus Research, December 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  99. Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the M and S genome segments of a Swedish Puumala virus isolate

    Article • Virus Research, December 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  100. Genetic variation of wild Puumala viruses within the serotype, local rodent populations and individual animal

    Article • Virus Research, September 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  101. Human B-cell epitopes of puumala virus nucleocapsid protein, the major antigen in early serological response

    Article • Journal of Medical Virology, August 1995, Wiley

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  102. Hantavirus antibodies in European mammalogists

    Article • The Lancet, June 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  103. PCR-amplification of influenza A virus specific sequences

    Article • Archives of Virology, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  104. Hybridization properties of 4S RNA of influenza virions

    Article • Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, November 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin

  105. A study of influenza virus 4S RNA as primer for RNA-dependent DNA synthesis

    Article • Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, April 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexander Plyusnin