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Eric M. Leroy is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on infectious diseases, animal science and zoology, epidemiology, genetics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work covers multiple research topics including animal virus infections studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, viral infections and vectors, zoonotic diseases and public health, virus-based gene therapy research, and viral infections and outbreaks research.

Eric M. Leroy has contributed to numerous publications, including the following recent papers:

  • The risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to pets and other wild and domestic animals strongly mandates a one-health strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, One Health)
  • High prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in pets from COVID-19+ households (2020, One Health)
  • Infection with SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 detected in a group of dogs and cats with suspected myocarditis (2021, Veterinary Record)
  • Myocarditis in naturally infected pets with the British variant of COVID-19 (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • At Least Seven Distinct Rotavirus Genotype Constellations in Bats with Evidence of Reassortment and Zoonotic Transmissions (2021, mBio)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Viruses, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the Bulletin de l'Académie vétérinaire de France.

Regular collaborators include Matthieu Fritz, Pierre Becquart, Gaël Darren Maganga, Illich Manfred Mombo, and Serge G. Rosolen.

Best Publications

  • Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus

    Eric M. Leroy;Brice Kumulungui;Xavier Pourrut;Pierre Rouquet

  • Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife

    Eric M. Leroy;Pierre Rouquet;Pierre Formenty;Sandrine Souquière

  • Zika Virus in Gabon (Central Africa) – 2007: A New Threat from Aedes albopictus?

    Gilda Grard;Mélanie Caron;Illich Manfred Mombo;Dieudonné Nkoghe

  • Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

  • Human Ebola Outbreak Resulting from Direct Exposure to Fruit Bats in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007

    Eric M. Leroy;Alain Epelboin;Vital Mondonge;Xavier Pourrut

  • Defective humoral responses and extensive intravascular apoptosis are associated with fatal outcome in Ebola virus-infected patients.

    Sylvain Baize;Eric M. Leroy;M.-C. Georges-Courbot;Monique Capron

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

    Claudio L. Afonso;Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Krisztián Bányai;Yīmíng Bào

  • Human asymptomatic Ebola infection and strong inflammatory response.

    E M Leroy;S Baize;V E Volchkov;S P Fisher-Hoch

  • A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples

    Samia N. Naccache;Scot Federman;Narayanan Veeraraghavan;Matei Zaharia

  • Human Fatal Zaire Ebola Virus Infection Is Associated with an Aberrant Innate Immunity and with Massive Lymphocyte Apoptosis

    Nadia Wauquier;Pierre Becquart;Cindy Padilla;Sylvain Baize

  • Marburg virus infection detected in a common African bat

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

  • Inflammatory responses in Ebola virus-infected patients

    S. Baize;E. M. Leroy;A. J. Georges;M.-C. Georges-Courbot

  • Wild animal mortality monitoring and human Ebola outbreaks, Gabon and Republic of Congo, 2001-2003.

    Pierre Rouquet;Jean-Marc Froment;Magdalena Bermejo;Annelisa Kilbourn

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos;Ashley C. Banyard;Christopher F. Basler

  • The natural history of Ebola virus in Africa.

    Xavier Pourrut;Brice Kumulungui;Tatiana Wittmann;Ghislain Moussavou

  • Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreaks in Gabon, 1994–1997: Epidemiologic and Health Control Issues

    Alain Jean Georges;Eric M. Leroy;André A. Renaut;Carol Tevi Benissan

  • Large serological survey showing cocirculation of Ebola and Marburg viruses in Gabonese bat populations, and a high seroprevalence of both viruses in Rousettus aegyptiacus

    Xavier Pourrut;Marc Souris;Jonathan S. Towner;Pierre E. Rollin

  • Chikungunya virus adapts to tiger mosquito via evolutionary convergence: a sign of things to come?

    Xavier de Lamballerie;Eric Leroy;Rémi N Charrel;Konstantin Ttsetsarkin

  • Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Gaël D. Maganga;Jimmy Kapetshi;Nicolas Berthet;Benoît Kebela Ilunga

  • Comparative role of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the emergence of Dengue and Chikungunya in central Africa.

    Christophe Paupy;Benjamin Ollomo;Basile Kamgang;Sara Moutailler

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler;Sina Bavari

  • Corrigendum: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Gonzalez
Jean-Paul Gonzalez Georgetown University
Jan Felix Drexler
Jan Felix Drexler Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian Drosten
Christian Drosten Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Janusz T. Paweska
Janusz T. Paweska National Health Laboratory Service
Jonathan S. Towner
Jonathan S. Towner Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
François Renaud
François Renaud University of Montpellier
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
John M. Dye
John M. Dye United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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