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  1. Zika Virus: From Obscurity to Potentially Devastating International Threat

    Article • Clinical Chemistry, August 2016, AACC

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  2. Mesoniviruses are mosquito-specific viruses with extensive geographic distribution and host range

    Article • Virology Journal, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis, Professor Elodie Ghedin

  3. GeneSV – an Approach to Help Characterize Possible Variations in Genomic and Protein Sequences

    Article • Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, January 2014, Libertas Academica, Ltd.

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  4. Fever versus fever: The role of host and vector susceptibility and interspecific competition in shaping the current and future distributions of the sylvatic cycles of dengue virus and yellow fever virus

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas P. Monath, Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  5. Niakha virus: A novel member of the family Rhabdoviridae isolated from phlebotomine sandflies in Senegal

    Article • Virology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis, Professor Elodie Ghedin

  6. Characterization of Farmington virus, a novel virus from birds that is distantly related to members of the family Rhabdoviridae

    Article • Virology Journal, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis, Professor Walter Ian Lipkin

  7. Identification of a new newcastle disease virus isolate from Indonesia represents an ancestral lineage of class II genotype XIII

    Article • Virus Genes, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  8. Emergence potential of sylvatic dengue virus type 4 in the urban transmission cycle is restrained by vaccination and homotypic immunity

    Article • Virology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  9. Malpais spring virus is a new species in the genus vesiculovirus

    Article • Virology Journal, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  10. Factors shaping the adaptive landscape for arboviruses: implications for the emergence of disease

    Article • Future Microbiology, February 2013, Future Medicine

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  11. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of sylvatic dengue virus type 4 strains

    Article • Virology, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  12. Dengue — Quo tu et quo vadis?

    Article • Viruses, September 2011, MDPI AG

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  13. Fever from the forest: prospects for the continued emergence of sylvatic dengue virus and its impact on public health

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  14. Molecular evolution of dengue viruses: Contributions of phylogenetics to understanding the history and epidemiology of the preeminent arboviral disease

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  15. Mosquitoes Put the Brake on Arbovirus Evolution: Experimental Evolution Reveals Slower Mutation Accumulation in Mosquito Than Vertebrate Cells

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2009, PLOS

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  16. Differential stepwise evolution of SARS coronavirus functional proteins in different host species

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Zhengli Shi, Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  17. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of sylvatic dengue virus type 2 strains

    Article • Virology, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis, Eric Bertrand Fokam

  18. Sylvatic Dengue Virus Type 2 Activity in Humans, Nigeria, 1966

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 2008, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  19. Chapter 1 The History and Evolution of Human Dengue Emergence

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  20. Potential of ancestral sylvatic dengue-2 viruses to re-emerge

    Article • Virology, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis, Eric Bertrand Fokam

  21. Transfection-independent production of alphavirus replicon particles based on poxvirus expression vectors

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, July 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  22. Enhanced genetic rescue of negative-strand RNA viruses: use of an MVA-T7 RNA polymerase vector and DNA replication inhibitors

    Article • Journal of Virological Methods, July 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis

  23. Expression of a foreign gene by recombinant canine distemper virus recovered from cloned DNAs

    Article • Virus Research, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Nikos Vasilakis