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Overview

Christina F. Spiropoulou is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Subfields also include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their scientific work cover a broad spectrum related to viral infections and their control, including:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

The scientist has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Antiviral Research
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • npj Vaccines

Some of the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Christina F. Spiropoulou include:

  • "Remdesivir targets a structurally analogous region of the Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 polymerases" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Towards a Sustainable One Health Approach to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Prevention: Focus Areas and Gaps in Knowledge" (2020) published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • "Griffithsin Inhibits Nipah Virus Entry and Fusion and Can Protect Syrian Golden Hamsters From Lethal Nipah Virus Challenge" (2020) published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "An introduction to the Marburg virus vaccine consortium, MARVAC" (2022) published in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Differential neutralization and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 variants by antibodies elicited by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines" (2022) published in Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Christina F. Spiropoulou has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Joel M. Montgomery
  • Jessica R. Spengler
  • Stephen R. Welch
  • Éric Bergeron
  • JoAnn D. Coleman-McCray

Best Publications

  • Therapeutic efficacy of the small molecule GS-5734 against Ebola virus in rhesus monkeys

    Travis K. Warren;Robert Jordan;Michael K. Lo;Adrian S. Ray

  • Genetic identification of a hantavirus associated with an outbreak of acute respiratory illness

    Stuart T. Nichol;Christina F. Spiropoulou;Sergey Morzunov;Pierre E. Rollin

  • Rapid Diagnosis of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever by Reverse Transcription-PCR in an Outbreak Setting and Assessment of Patient Viral Load as a Predictor of Outcome

    Jonathan S. Towner;Pierre E. Rollin;Daniel G. Bausch;Anthony Sanchez

  • Serologic and Genetic Identification of Peromyscus maniculatus as the Primary Rodent Reservoir for a New Hantavirus in the Southwestern United States

    James E. Childs;Thomas G. Ksiazek;Christina F. Spiropoulou;John W. Krebs

  • GS-5734 and its parent nucleoside analog inhibit Filo-, Pneumo-, and Paramyxoviruses.

    Michael K. Lo;Robert Jordan;Aaron Arvey;Jawahar Sudhamsu

  • Transferrin receptor 1 is a cellular receptor for New World haemorrhagic fever arenaviruses

    Sheli R. Radoshitzky;Jonathan Abraham;Christina F. Spiropoulou;Jens H. Kuhn;Jens H. Kuhn

  • Clinical Care of Two Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in the United States

    G. Marshall Lyon;Aneesh K. Mehta;Jay B. Varkey;Kent Brantly

  • Defining antigen-specific plasmablast and memory B cell subsets in human blood after viral infection or vaccination

    Ali H Ellebedy;Katherine J. L Jackson;Haydn T Kissick;Helder Takashi Imoto Nakaya

  • Human Ebola virus infection results in substantial immune activation

    Anita K. McElroy;Rama S. Akondy;Carl W. Davis;Ali H. Ellebedy

  • Remdesivir (GS-5734) protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge

    Michael K. Lo;Friederike Feldmann;Joy M. Gary;Robert Jordan

  • New World Arenavirus Clade C, but Not Clade A and B Viruses, Utilizes α-Dystroglycan as Its Major Receptor

    Christina F. Spiropoulou;Stefan Kunz;Pierre E. Rollin;Kevin P. Campbell

  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

    Adam MacNeil;Stuart T. Nichol;Christina F. Spiropoulou

  • Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Novel Biomarker Correlates of Clinical Outcome

    Anita K. McElroy;Bobbie R. Erickson;Timothy D. Flietstra;Pierre E. Rollin

  • Identification of a new North American hantavirus that causes acute pulmonary insufficiency

    Thomas G. Ksiazek;C. J. Peters;Pierre E. Rollin;Sherif Zaki

  • Utilization of autopsy RNA for the synthesis of the nucleocapsid antigen of a newly recognized virus associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

    Heinz Feldmann;Anthony Sanchez;Sergey Morzunov;Christina F. Spiropoulou

  • Genome Structure and Variability of a Virus Causing Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

    Christina F. Spiropoulou;Sergey Morzunov;Heinz Feldmann;Anthony Sanchez

  • The Use of TKM-100802 and Convalescent Plasma in 2 Patients With Ebola Virus Disease in the United States

    Colleen S. Kraft;Angela L. Hewlett;Scott Koepsell;Anne M. Winkler

  • Isolation of the causative agent of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

    L. H. Elliott;Thomas Ksiazek;P. E. Rollin;C. F. Spiropoulou

  • A newly recognized virus associated with a fatal case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Louisiana.

    S P Morzunov;Heinz Feldmann;C F Spiropoulou;V A Semenova

  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: CD8+ and CD4+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes to epitopes on Sin Nombre virus nucleocapsid protein isolated during acute illness.

    Francis A Ennis;John Cruz;Christina F Spiropoulou;Douglas Waite

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart T. Nichol
Stuart T. Nichol Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Pierre E. Rollin
Pierre E. Rollin Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Brian H. Bird
Brian H. Bird University of California, Davis
Sherif R. Zaki
Sherif R. Zaki Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Clarence J. Peters
Clarence J. Peters The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Thomas G. Ksiazek
Thomas G. Ksiazek The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Ute Ströher
Ute Ströher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jonathan S. Towner
Jonathan S. Towner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stefan Kunz
Stefan Kunz University of Lausanne
John D. Klena
John D. Klena Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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