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Brian H. Bird is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, United States. Their research engages primarily with medicine and agricultural and biological sciences sectors, reflecting a collaboration of interdisciplinary approaches.

Their published works focus extensively on infectious diseases, with a significant concentration on viral infections, outbreaks, and zoonotic diseases that impact public health. Other notable subfields in their research include public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, agronomy and crop science, and modeling and simulation.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Brian H. Bird include:

  • Jonna A. K. Mazet
  • James Bangura
  • David J. Wolking
  • Bruno M. Ghersi
  • Woutrina Smith

Their works have appeared in several publication venues, most notably:

  • Archives of Virology
  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Representing some of their recent publications:

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales (2020, Archives of Virology)
  • Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa (2020, Nature Communications)
  • 2021 Taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales (2021, Archives of Virology)
  • Bridging the gap: Using reservoir ecology and human serosurveys to estimate Lassa virus spillover in West Africa (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • Towards a Sustainable One Health Approach to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Prevention: Focus Areas and Gaps in Knowledge (2020, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease)

Best Publications

  • Rift Valley fever virus (Bunyaviridae: Phlebovirus): an update on pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, vectors, diagnostics and prevention

    Michel Pépin;Michèle Bouloy;Brian H. Bird;Alan C. Kemp

  • Rift Valley fever virus

    Brian H. Bird;Thomas G. Ksiazek;Thomas G. Ksiazek;Stuart T. Nichol;N. James MacLachlan

  • Marburg virus infection detected in a common African bat

    Jonathan S. Towner;Xavier Pourrut;César G. Albariño;Chimène Nze Nkogue

  • The discovery of Bombali virus adds further support for bats as hosts of ebolaviruses

    Tracey Goldstein;Simon J. Anthony;Simon J. Anthony;Aiah Gbakima;Brian H. Bird

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

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

  • Complete Genome Analysis of 33 Ecologically and Biologically Diverse Rift Valley Fever Virus Strains Reveals Widespread Virus Movement and Low Genetic Diversity due to Recent Common Ancestry

    Brian H. Bird;Brian H. Bird;Marina L. Khristova;Pierre E. Rollin;Thomas G. Ksiazek

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Rift Valley Fever Virus Lacking the NSs and NSm Genes Is Highly Attenuated, Confers Protective Immunity from Virulent Virus Challenge, and Allows for Differential Identification of Infected and Vaccinated Animals

    Brian H. Bird;Brian H. Bird;César G. Albariño;Amy L. Hartman;Bobbie Rae Erickson

  • Batai and Ngari viruses: M segment reassortment and association with severe febrile disease outbreaks in East Africa.

    Thomas Briese;Brian Bird;Brian Bird;Vishal Kapoor;Stuart T. Nichol

  • ORAL SHEDDING OF MARBURG VIRUS IN EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED EGYPTIAN FRUIT BATS (ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS)

    Brian R. Amman;Megan E. B. Jones;Megan E. B. Jones;Tara K. Sealy;Luke S. Uebelhoer;Luke S. Uebelhoer

  • Highly Sensitive and Broadly Reactive Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay for High-Throughput Detection of Rift Valley Fever Virus

    Brian H. Bird;Brian H. Bird;Darcy A. Bawiec;Thomas G. Ksiazek;Trevor R. Shoemaker

  • Genomic analysis of filoviruses associated with four viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012

    C.G. Albariño;T. Shoemaker;M.L. Khristova;J.F. Wamala

  • Multiple Virus Lineages Sharing Recent Common Ancestry Were Associated with a Large Rift Valley Fever Outbreak among Livestock in Kenya during 2006-2007

    Brian H. Bird;Jane W. K. Githinji;Joseph M. Macharia;Jacqueline L. Kasiiti

  • Inhibition of IRF-3 activation by VP35 is critical for the high level of virulence of ebola virus.

    Amy L. Hartman;Brian H. Bird;Jonathan S. Towner;Zoi-Anna Antoniadou

  • The NSm proteins of Rift Valley fever virus are dispensable for maturation, replication and infection

    Sonja R. Gerrard;Brian H. Bird;Brian H. Bird;Cesar G. Albariño;Stuart T. Nichol

  • Rift Valley Fever Virus Vaccine Lacking the NSs and NSm Genes Is Safe, Nonteratogenic, and Confers Protection from Viremia, Pyrexia, and Abortion following Challenge in Adult and Pregnant Sheep

    Brian H. Bird;Louis H. Maartens;Shelley Campbell;Baltus J. Erasmus

  • Npro of classical swine fever virus is an antagonist of double-stranded RNA-mediated apoptosis and IFN-α/β induction

    Nicolas Ruggli;Brian H. Bird;Luzia Liu;Oliver Bauhofer

  • Detection of Emerging Zoonotic Pathogens: An Integrated One Health Approach

    Brian H Bird;Jonna A K Mazet

  • Rift Valley fever virus lacking NSm proteins retains high virulence in vivo and may provide a model of human delayed onset neurologic disease.

    Brian H. Bird;César G. Albariño;Stuart T. Nichol

  • Ancient common ancestry of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.

    Serena A. Carroll;Brian H. Bird;Pierre E. Rollin;Stuart T. Nichol

  • Breaking the chain: Rift Valley fever virus control via livestock vaccination

    Brian H Bird;Stuart T Nichol

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart T. Nichol
Stuart T. Nichol Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Christina F. Spiropoulou
Christina F. Spiropoulou Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jonathan S. Towner
Jonathan S. Towner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas G. Ksiazek
Thomas G. Ksiazek The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Jonna A. K. Mazet
Jonna A. K. Mazet University of California, Davis
Ute Ströher
Ute Ströher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Pierre E. Rollin
Pierre E. Rollin Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sherif R. Zaki
Sherif R. Zaki Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Aaron C. Brault
Aaron C. Brault Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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