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Erna Geessien Kroon is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on areas such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research mainly covers topics including mosquito-borne diseases and control, herpesvirus infections and treatments, poxvirus research and outbreaks, viral infections and vectors, malaria research and control, Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research, as well as insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Frequent publication venues where Kroon's work has appeared include:

  • Viruses
  • Journal of Medical Virology
  • Virology Journal
  • Pathogens
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Kroon's collaborations involve coauthors such as Betânia Paiva Drumond, Giliane de Souza Trindade, Jônatas Santos Abrahão, Aline Almeida Bentes, and Marco Antônio Campos.

Recent papers associated with this researcher include:

  • Here, There, and Everywhere: The Wide Host Range and Geographic Distribution of Zoonotic Orthopoxviruses, 2020, Viruses
  • Mosquito vector competence for dengue is modulated by insect-specific viruses, 2023, Nature Microbiology
  • Re-Emergence of Yellow Fever in Brazil during 2016-2019: Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Perspectives, 2020, Viruses
  • Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on public surfaces in a densely populated urban area of Brazil: A potential tool for monitoring the circulation of infected patients, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Neighbor danger: Yellow fever virus epizootics in urban and urban-rural transition areas of Minas Gerais state, during 2017-2018 yellow fever outbreaks in Brazil, 2020, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Best Publications

  • Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

    N. R. Faria;M. U. G. Kraemer;M. U. G. Kraemer;M. U. G. Kraemer;S. C. Hill;J. Goes de Jesus

  • Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere

    Jônatas Abrahão;Jônatas Abrahão;Lorena Silva;Lorena Silva;Ludmila Santos Silva;Ludmila Santos Silva;Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil

  • Interferons: Signaling, antiviral and viral evasion

    Cláudio A. Bonjardim;Paulo C.P. Ferreira;Erna G. Kroon

  • Here, There, and Everywhere: The Wide Host Range and Geographic Distribution of Zoonotic Orthopoxviruses

    Natalia Ingrid Oliveira Silva;Jaqueline Silva de Oliveira;Erna Geessien Kroon;Giliane de Souza Trindade

  • Araçatuba virus: a vaccinialike virus associated with infection in humans and cattle.

    Giliane de Souza Trindade;Flávio Guimarães da Fonseca;João Trindade Marques;Maurício Lacerda Nogueira

  • Mosquito vector competence for dengue is modulated by insect-specific viruses

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  • The vaccinia virus-stimulated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is required for virus multiplication.

    Anderson A. Andrade;Patrícia N. G. Silva;Anna C. T. C. Pereira;Lirlândia P. de Sousa

  • Brazilian vaccinia viruses and their origins.

    Giliane S. Trindade;Ginny L. Emerson;Darin S. Carroll;Erna G. Kroon

  • Essential role of platelet-activating factor receptor in the pathogenesis of Dengue virus infection.

    Danielle G. Souza;Caio T. Fagundes;Lirlandia P. Sousa;Flavio A. Amaral

  • Sequence-independent characterization of viruses based on the pattern of viral small RNAs produced by the host.

    Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar;Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar;Roenick Proveti Olmo;Roenick Proveti Olmo;Simona Paro;Flavia Viana Ferreira

  • Activation of the PI3K/Akt Pathway Early during Vaccinia and Cowpox Virus Infections Is Required for both Host Survival and Viral Replication

    Jamária A. P. Soares;Flávia G. G. Leite;Luciana G. Andrade;Alice A. Torres

  • Passatempo virus, a vaccinia virus strain, Brazil.

    Juliana A. Leite;Betânia P. Drumond;Giliane S. Trindade;Zélia I.P. Lobato

  • A mitogenic signal triggered at an early stage of vaccinia virus infection: implication of MEK/ERK and protein kinase A in virus multiplication.

    José C. de Magalhães;Anderson A. Andrade;Patrícia N.G. Silva;Lirlândia P. Sousa

  • Diversity and bioprospection of fungal community present in oligotrophic soil of continental Antarctica

    Valéria M. Godinho;Vívian N. Gonçalves;Iara F. Santiago;Hebert M. Figueredo

  • One more piece in the VACV ecological puzzle: could peridomestic rodents be the link between wildlife and bovine vaccinia outbreaks in Brazil?

    Jônatas S. Abrahão;Maria Isabel M. Guedes;Giliane S. Trindade;Flávio G. Fonseca

  • Short report: Isolation of two vaccinia virus strains from a single bovine vaccinia outbreak in rural area from Brazil: Implications on the emergence of zoonotic orthopoxviruses.

    Giliane S. Trindade;Zélia I. P. Lobato;Betânia P. Drumond;Juliana A. Leite

  • Lethal encephalitis in myeloid differentiation factor 88-deficient mice infected with herpes simplex virus 1.

    Daniel S. Mansur;Erna G. Kroon;Maurício L. Nogueira;Rosa M.E. Arantes

  • Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon

    Rafael Kroon Campos;Paulo V. Boratto;Felipe L. Assis;Eric R.G.R. Aguiar

  • Natural human infections with Vaccinia virus during bovine vaccinia outbreaks.

    André Tavares Silva-Fernandes;André Tavares Silva-Fernandes;Carlos Eurico Pires Ferreira Travassos;Jaqueline Maria Siqueira Ferreira;Jônatas Santos Abrahão

  • Persistence of Yellow fever virus outside the Amazon Basin, causing epidemics in Southeast Brazil, from 2016 to 2018.

    Izabela Maurício de Rezende;Lívia Sacchetto;Érica Munhoz de Mello;Pedro Augusto Alves

  • Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR9 expressed in trigeminal ganglia are critical to viral control during herpes simplex virus 1 infection.

    Graciela Kunrath Lima;Guilherme Pimenta Zolini;Daniel Santos Mansur;Bráulio Henrique Freire Lima

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard La Scola
Bernard La Scola Aix-Marseille University
Maurício Lacerda Nogueira
Maurício Lacerda Nogueira Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto
Mauro M. Teixeira
Mauro M. Teixeira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Lirlândia P. Sousa
Lirlândia P. Sousa Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho
Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Jean-Luc Imler
Jean-Luc Imler University of Strasbourg
Philippe Colson
Philippe Colson Aix-Marseille University
Olindo Assis Martins-Filho
Olindo Assis Martins-Filho Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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