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Margo A. Brinton is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, with a primary focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work frequently addresses subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Animal Science and Zoology, and Genetics.

The scientist's main research topics include the study and control of mosquito-borne diseases, viral infections and outbreaks, viral infections and vectors, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, animal virus infections studies, and virus-based gene therapy research.

Margo A. Brinton has contributed to various frequent publication venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Virology
  • Viruses
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Biotechnology

The scientist has several notable recent papers, including:

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arteriviridae 2021, 2021, Journal of General Virology
  • Neuroinvasion and Encephalitis Following Intranasal Inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18-hACE2 Mice, 2021, Viruses
  • Treatment of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections via mRNA-encoded Cas13a in rodents, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Neuroinvasion and encephalitis following intranasal inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18-hACE2 mice, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zika Virus RNA Persistence in Sewage, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Margo A. Brinton include:

  • Ralph S. Baric
  • Mukesh Kumar
  • Mausumi Basu
  • Heather A. Vatter
  • Eric Donaldson

Best Publications

  • The Molecular Biology of West Nile Virus: A New Invader of the Western Hemisphere

    Margo A. Brinton

  • Interaction of TIA-1/TIAR with West Nile and dengue virus products in infected cells interferes with stress granule formation and processing body assembly

    Mohamed M. Emara;Margo A. Brinton

  • Positional cloning of the murine flavivirus resistance gene.

    Andrey A. Perelygin;Svetlana V. Scherbik;Igor B. Zhulin;Bronislava M. Stockman

  • Neuroinvasion and Encephalitis Following Intranasal Inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18-hACE2 Mice.

    Pratima Kumari;Hussin A Rothan;Janhavi P Natekar;Shannon Stone

  • Translation elongation factor-1 alpha interacts with the 3' stem-loop region of West Nile virus genomic RNA.

    J L Blackwell;M A Brinton

  • The 3'-nucleotides of flavivirus genomic RNA form a conserved secondary structure.

    Margo A. Brinton;Annabellee V. Fernandez;Janice H. Dispoto

  • Sequence and secondary structure analysis of the 5'-terminal region of flavivirus genome RNA.

    Margo A. Brinton;Janice H. Dispoto

  • Cell Proteins TIA-1 and TIAR Interact with the 3′ Stem-Loop of the West Nile Virus Complementary Minus-Strand RNA and Facilitate Virus Replication

    W. Li;Y. Li;N. Kedersha;P. Anderson

  • Treatment of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections via mRNA-encoded Cas13a in rodents.

    Emmeline L. Blanchard;Daryll Vanover;Swapnil Subhash Bawage;Pooja Munnilal Tiwari

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arteriviridae 2021.

    Margo A. Brinton;Anastasia A. Gulyaeva;Udeni B. R. Balasuriya;Magda Dunowska

  • BHK cell proteins that bind to the 3' stem-loop structure of the West Nile virus genome RNA.

    J L Blackwell;M A Brinton

  • Replication cycle and molecular biology of the West Nile virus.

    Margo A. Brinton

  • RNase L Plays a Role in the Antiviral Response to West Nile Virus

    Svetlana V. Scherbik;Jayashree M. Paranjape;Bronislava M. Stockman;Robert H. Silverman

  • Interaction between the Cellular Protein eEF1A and the 3′-Terminal Stem-Loop of West Nile Virus Genomic RNA Facilitates Viral Minus-Strand RNA Synthesis

    William G. Davis;Jerry L. Blackwell;Jerry L. Blackwell;Pei-Yong Shi;Margo A. Brinton

  • Complete Genomic Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Lactate Dehydrogenase-Elevating Virus (LDV)

    E.K. Godeny;L. Chen;S.N. Kumar;S.L. Methven

  • Replication of Flaviviruses

    Margo A. Brinton

  • Dengue virus-specific, human CD4+ CD8- cytotoxic T-cell clones: multiple patterns of virus cross-reactivity recognized by NS3-specific T-cell clones.

    Ichiro Kurane;Margo A. Brinton;Annette L. Samson;Francis A. Ennis

  • Evidence for the existence of a pseudoknot structure at the 3' terminus of the flavivirus genomic RNA.

    Pei-Yong Shi;Margo A. Brinton;James M. Veal;James M. Veal;Yi Yi Zhong

  • Case of Yellow Fever Vaccine-associated Viscerotropic Disease with Prolonged Viremia, Robust Adaptive Immune Responses, and Polymorphisms in CCR5 and RANTES Genes

    Bali Pulendran;Joseph Miller;Joseph Miller;Troy D. Querec;Rama Akondy

  • Dominant recognition by human CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes of dengue virus nonstructural proteins NS3 and NS1.2a.

    Anuja Mathew;Ichiro Kurane;Alan L. Rothman;Ling Ling Zeng

  • An infectious clone of the West Nile flavivirus.

    Vladimir F. Yamshchikov;Gerd Wengler;Andrey A. Perelygin;Margo A. Brinton

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis A. Ennis
Francis A. Ennis University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ichiro Kurane
Ichiro Kurane National Institutes of Health
Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Ralph S. Baric
Ralph S. Baric University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric F. Donaldson
Eric F. Donaldson Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Harold S. Margolis
Harold S. Margolis Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert H. Silverman
Robert H. Silverman Kent State University
Robert S. Lanciotti
Robert S. Lanciotti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Neal Nathanson
Neal Nathanson University of Pennsylvania
Frank Sicheri
Frank Sicheri Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

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