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Aaron C. Brault is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions in infectious diseases and public health. Their work spans subfields including infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, parasitology, and epidemiology.

Their publications include both original research articles and book contributions. Notable recent papers are:

  • Comparison of Home Antigen Testing With RT-PCR and Viral Culture During the Course of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2022, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • "Submergence" of Western equine encephalitis virus: Evidence of positive selection argues against genetic drift and fitness reductions, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Oropouche Virus Disease Among U.S. Travelers - United States, 2024, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Global Perspectives on Arbovirus Outbreaks: A 2020 Snapshot, 2020, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Combating West Nile Virus Disease - Time to Revisit Vaccination, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

They have contributed to book publications, including a title released by the Pan American Health Organization: Recommendations for Laboratory Detection and Diagnosis of Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas (2023).

The main research topics explored by Aaron C. Brault include:

  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral infections and vectors
  • Viral infections and outbreaks research
  • Vector-borne animal diseases
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Malaria research and control
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • J. Erin Staples
  • Holly R. Hughes
  • Jason O. Velez
  • Emily H. Davis
  • Carolyn V. Gould

Aaron C. Brault has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Best Publications

  • West Nile Virus: Review of the Literature

    Lyle R. Petersen;Aaron C. Brault;Roger S. Nasci

  • Re-emergence of Chikungunya and O'nyong-nyong viruses: evidence for distinct geographical lineages and distant evolutionary relationships.

    Ann M. Powers;Aaron C. Brault;Robert B. Tesh;Scott C. Weaver

  • Evolutionary Relationships and Systematics of the Alphaviruses

    Ann M. Powers;Aaron C. Brault;Yukio Shirako;Ellen G. Strauss

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

    Sara M. Volk;Sara M. Volk;Rubing Chen;Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin;A. Paige Adams

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

    Aaron C. Brault;Claire Y.-H. Huang;Stanley A. Langevin;Richard M. Kinney

  • Ebola RNA Persistence in Semen of Ebola Virus Disease Survivors — Final Report

    Deen Gf;Broutet N;Xu W;Knust B

  • Ebola virus epidemiology, transmission, and evolution during seven months in Sierra Leone

    Daniel J. Park;Gytis Dudas;Shirlee Wohl;Shirlee Wohl;Augustine Goba

  • Genetic and Fitness Changes Accompanying Adaptation of an Arbovirus to Vertebrate and Invertebrate Cells

    Scott C. Weaver;Aaron C. Brault;Wenli Kang;John J. Holland

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

    C. Todd Davis;Gregory D. Ebel;Robert S. Lanciotti;Aaron C. Brault

  • Zika Virus Shedding in Semen of Symptomatic Infected Men

    Paul S. Mead;Nisha K. Duggal;Sarah A. Hook;Mark Delorey

  • Differential virulence of West Nile strains for American crows.

    Aaron C. Brault;Stanley A. Langevin;Richard A. Bowen;Nicholas A. Panella

  • Arbovirus evolution in vivo is constrained by host alternation

    Lark L. Coffey;Nikos Vasilakis;Nikos Vasilakis;Aaron C. Brault;Aaron C. Brault;Ann M. Powers

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

    Aaron C. Brault;Ann M. Powers;Ann M. Powers;Diana Ortiz;Jose G. Estrada-Franco

  • Comparison of Home Antigen Testing With RT-PCR and Viral Culture During the Course of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

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  • Overwintering of West Nile virus in Southern California.

    William K. Reisen;William K. Reisen;Ying Fang;Hugh D. Lothrop;Vincent M. Martinez

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

    Silvina Goenaga;Joan L Kenney;Nisha K Duggal;Mark Delorey

  • Evolutionary relationship between Old World West Nile virus strains: Evidence for viral gene flow between africa, the middle east, and europe

    R. N. Charrel;Aaron Brault;P. Gallian;J. J. Lemasson

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

    Nisha K. Duggal;Jana M. Ritter;Samuel E. Pestorius;Sherif R. Zaki

  • Genetic and antigenic diversity among eastern equine encephalitis viruses from North, Central, and South America.

    Aaron C. Brault;Ann M. Powers;Cesar Luis Villarreal Chavez;Roberto Navarro Lopez

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

    Joan L. Kenney;Owen D. Solberg;Stanley A. Langevin;Aaron C. Brault

  • Repeated emergence of epidemic/epizootic Venezuelan equine encephalitis from a single genotype of enzootic subtype ID virus.

    A M Powers;M S Oberste;A C Brault;R Rico-Hesse

Frequent Co-Authors

William K. Reisen
William K. Reisen University of California, Davis
Richard A. Bowen
Richard A. Bowen Colorado State University
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Gregory D. Ebel
Gregory D. Ebel Colorado State University
Nicholas Komar
Nicholas Komar Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ann M. Powers
Ann M. Powers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alan D.T. Barrett
Alan D.T. Barrett The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Harry M. Savage
Harry M. Savage Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard M. Kinney
Richard M. Kinney Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert B. Tesh
Robert B. Tesh The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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