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John S. Mackenzie

John S. Mackenzie

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Microbiology

D-Index
83
Citations
23416
World Ranking
1001
National Ranking
26

Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
24816
World Ranking
15148
National Ranking
502

Overview

John S. Mackenzie is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a concentration on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, Modeling and Simulation, and Parasitology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases

Among their recent papers are the following titles, along with their year of publication and publication venues:

  • "COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't," 2020, Microbiology Australia
  • "One Health: A new definition for a sustainable and healthy future," 2022, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Developing One Health surveillance systems," 2023, One Health

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • David W. Smith
  • Wanda Markotter
  • Wiku Adisasmito
  • Salama Almuhairi
  • Casey Barton Behravesh

The venues where this researcher has published most frequently are:

  • Viruses
  • Microbiology Australia
  • The Lancet
  • One Health Outlook
  • PLoS Pathogens

John S. Mackenzie has contributed to the scholarly literature with book publications through Yale University Press, including multiple editions of A Cultural History of the British Empire in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States

    R. S. Lanciotti;J. T. Roehrig;V. Deubel;J. Smith

  • Emerging flaviviruses: the spread and resurgence of Japanese encephalitis, West Nile and dengue viruses

    John S Mackenzie;Duane J Gubler;Lyle R Petersen

  • Isolation of Hendra Virus From Pteropid Bats: A Natural Reservoir of Hendra Virus

    K. Halpin;K. Halpin;P. L. Young;H. E. Field;J. S. Mackenzie

  • The One Health Approach-Why Is It So Important?

    John S Mackenzie;Martyn Jeggo

  • Ecology and Geographical Expansion of Japanese Encephalitis Virus

    Andrew F. van den Hurk;Scott A. Ritchie;John S. Mackenzie

  • COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't.

    John S Mackenzie;David W Smith

  • The natural history of Hendra and Nipah viruses.

    Hume Field;Peter Young;Johara Mohd Yob;James Mills

  • Climate change and dengue: a critical and systematic review of quantitative modelling approaches

    Suchithra Naish;Pat Dale;John S. Mackenzie;John W McBride

  • Characterization of a Novel Influenza Hemagglutinin, H15: Criteria for Determination of Influenza A Subtypes

    Carolin Röhm;Nannan Zhou;Jochen Süss;John Mackenzie

  • An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in the Torres Strait, Australia, 1995.

    J N Hanna;S A Ritchie;D A Phillips;J Shield

  • Serologic evidence for the presence in Pteropus bats of a paramyxovirus related to equine morbillivirus.

    P. L. Young;K. Halpin;P. W. Selleck

  • Japanese encephalitis in north Queensland, Australia, 1998.

    J N Hanna;S A Ritchie;D A Phillips;J M Lee

  • Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19.

    Charles Calisher;Dennis Carroll;Rita Colwell;Ronald B. Corley

  • Arboviruses causing human disease in the Australasian zoogeographic region.

    J. S. Mackenzie;M. D. Lindsay;R. J. Coelen;A. K. Broom

  • Emerging viral diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

    J.S. Mackenzie;K.B. Chua;P.W. Daniels;B.T. Eaton

  • Emerging viral diseases: an Australian perspective.

    John S. Mackenzie

  • Genetic analysis of West Nile New York 1999 encephalitis virus

    Xi-Yu Jia;Thomas Briese;Ingo Jordan;Andrew Rambaut

  • The zoonotic flaviviruses of southern, south-eastern and eastern Asia, and Australasia: the potential for emergent viruses.

    John MacKenzie;David Williams

  • The relationships between West Nile and Kunjin viruses.

    Jacqueline H. Scherret;Michael Poidinger;John S. Mackenzie;Annette K. Broom

  • Resistance to murine cytomegalovirus linked to the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse.

    Jane E. Chalmer;J. S. Mackenzie;N. F. Stanley

  • The influenza viruses

    Alan William Hampson;John Sheppard Mackenzie

  • Influence of H-2 and non-H-2 genes on resistance to murine cytomegalovirus infection.

    J E Grundy;J S Mackenzie;N F Stanley

  • Introduction: conceptualizing and partitioning the emergence process of zoonotic viruses from wildlife to humans.

    James E. Childs;Jürgen A. Richt;John S. Mackenzie

  • Genetic analysis of West Nile New York 1999 encephalitis virus (vol 354, pg 1971, 1999)

    X Y Jia;T Briese;I Jordan;A Rambaut

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy A. Hall
Roy A. Hall University of Queensland
Scott A. Ritchie
Scott A. Ritchie James Cook University
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Michael Poidinger
Michael Poidinger Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Neville Nicholls
Neville Nicholls Monash University
Kerrie Mengersen
Kerrie Mengersen Queensland University of Technology
Thomas Briese
Thomas Briese Columbia University
Richard C. Russell
Richard C. Russell University of Sydney
Hume Field
Hume Field University of Queensland
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang Duke NUS Graduate Medical School

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