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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Robert B. Tesh is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their work spans across fields including Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions to the subfields of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Genetics.

Their research concentrates on topics such as mosquito-borne diseases and control, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne animal diseases, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, zoonotic diseases and public health, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and plant virus research studies.

Recent publications by Robert B. Tesh include:

  • "Zoonotic mosquito-borne arboviruses: Spillover, spillback, and realistic mitigation strategies" (2023) in Science Translational Medicine
  • "Emergence potential of mosquito-borne arboviruses from the Florida Everglades" (2021) in PLoS ONE
  • "Characterization of Port Bolivar Virus, a Novel Entomobirnavirus (Birnaviridae) Isolated from Mosquitoes Collected in East Texas, USA" (2020) in Viruses
  • "Characteristics of Madariaga and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infections, Panama" (2024) in Emerging infectious diseases
  • "Madariaga and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus seroprevalence in rodent enzootic hosts in Eastern and Western Panama" (2023) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Robert B. Tesh frequently publishes in journals such as Emerging infectious diseases, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Science Translational Medicine, and PLoS ONE.

They have collaborated multiple times with coauthors including Nikos Vasilakis, Scott C. Weaver, Hilda Guzmán, Carlos Lezcano-Coba, and Josefrancisco Galué.

Robert B. Tesh was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Probable non-vector-borne transmission of Zika virus, Colorado, USA.

    Brian D Foy;Kevin C Kobylinski;Joy L. Chilson Foy;Bradley J. Blitvich

  • Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings

    Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Renato Souza

  • Genetic Characterization of Zika Virus Strains: Geographic Expansion of the Asian Lineage

    Andrew D. Haddow;Amy J. Schuh;Chadwick Y. Yasuda;Matthew R. Kasper

  • Leishmaniases of the New World: current concepts and implications for future research.

    Gabriel Grimaldi;Robert B. Tesh

  • Re-emergence of Chikungunya and O'nyong-nyong viruses: evidence for distinct geographical lineages and distant evolutionary relationships.

    Ann M. Powers;Aaron C. Brault;Robert B. Tesh;Scott C. Weaver

  • Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

    Peter Simmonds;Mike J. Adams;Mária Benkő;Mya Breitbart

  • Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

    Marcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes;Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Janaina Mota de Vasconcelos;Nick Golding

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

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

  • Characterization of a Novel Murine Model to Study Zika Virus

    Shannan L. Rossi;Robert B. Tesh;Sasha R. Azar;Antonio E. Muruato

  • The emergence of arthropod-borne viral diseases: A global prospective on dengue, chikungunya and zika fevers.

    Sandra V. Mayer;Robert B. Tesh;Nikos Vasilakis

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

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

  • Zika virus infection, Cambodia, 2010.

    Vireak Heang;Chadwick Y. Yasuda;Ly Sovann;Andrew D. Haddow

  • Re-emergence of epidemic Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis in South America

    Scott C. Weaver;Rosalba Salas;Rebeca Rico-Hesse;George V. Ludwig

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2019.

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;María A. Ayllón;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler

  • Phylogeography of West Nile Virus: from the Cradle of Evolution in Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas

    Fiona J. May;C. Todd Davis;Robert B. Tesh;Alan D. T. Barrett

  • Divergent Viruses Discovered in Arthropods and Vertebrates Revise the Evolutionary History of the Flaviviridae and Related Viruses

    Mang Shi;Xian Dan Lin;Nikos Vasilakis;Jun Hua Tian

  • West Nile virus infection in the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus): a model for West Nile encephalitis.

    Shu Yuan Xiao;Hilda Guzman;Hui Zhang;Amelia P.A. Travassos Da Rosa

  • Insect-Specific Virus Discovery: Significance for the Arbovirus Community

    Bethany G. Bolling;Scott C. Weaver;Robert B. Tesh;Nikos Vasilakis

  • An Infectious cDNA Clone of Zika Virus to Study Viral Virulence, Mosquito Transmission, and Antiviral Inhibitors

    Chao Shan;Xuping Xie;Antonio E. Muruato;Shannan L. Rossi

  • Variation among goegraphic strains of Aedes albopictus in susceptibility to infection with chikungunya virus.

    Robert B. Tesh;Duane J. Gubler;Leon Rosen

  • Transovarial transmission of dengue viruses by mosquitoes: Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti

    Leon Rosen;Donald A. Shroyer;Robert B. Tesh;Jerome E. Freier

  • Phylogenetic analysis of North American West Nile virus isolates, 2001-2004: evidence for the emergence of a dominant genotype.

    C. Todd Davis;Gregory D. Ebel;Robert S. Lanciotti;Aaron C. Brault

  • Persistent Infection with West Nile Virus Years after Initial Infection

    Kristy Murray;Christopher Walker;Emily Herrington;Jessica A. Lewis

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

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

  • A method for the isolation and identification of dengue viruses, using mosquito cell cultures

    Robert B. Tesh

  • A live-attenuated Zika virus vaccine candidate induces sterilizing immunity in mouse models

    Chao Shan;Antonio E. Muruato;Bruno T.D. Nunes;Bruno T.D. Nunes;Huanle Luo

  • A novel rhabdovirus associated with acute hemorrhagic fever in central Africa.

    Gilda Grard;Joseph N. Fair;Deanna Lee;Elizabeth Slikas

  • Mayaro Virus Disease: An Emerging Mosquito-Borne Zoonosis in Tropical South America

    Robert B. Tesh;Douglas M. Watts;Kevin L. Russell;Chitra Damodaran

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Rhabdoviridae.

    Peter J. Walker;Kim R. Blasdell;Charles H. Calisher;Ralf G. Dietzgen

  • New arenavirus isolated in Brazil

    T. L M Coimbra;E. S. Nassar;L. T M de Souza;I. B. Ferreira

  • Immunization with heterologous flaviviruses protective against fatal West Nile encephalitis.

    Robert B. Tesh;Amelia P.A. Travassos da Rosa;Hilda Guzman;Tais P. Araujo

  • Host feeding pattern of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) and its role in transmission of West Nile virus in Harris County, Texas.

    Goudarz Molaei;Theodore G. Andreadis;Philip M. Armstrong;Rudy Bueno

  • An animal model for studying the pathogenesis of chikungunya virus infection

    Sarah A. Ziegler;Liang Lu;Amelia P A Travassos Da Rosa;Shu Yuan Xiao

  • Vertical Transmission of Zika Virus in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

    Saravanan Thangamani;Jing Huang;Charles E. Hart;Hilda Guzman

  • A new Genotype of Japanese Encephalitis Virus from Indonesia

    Woan-Ru Chen;Rebeca Rico-Hesse;Robert B. Tesh

  • Efficacy of Killed Virus Vaccine, Live Attenuated Chimeric Virus Vaccine, and Passive Immunization for Prevention of West Nile virus Encephalitis in Hamster Model

    Robert B. Tesh;Juan Arroyo;Amelia P.A. Travassos da Rosa;Hilda Guzman

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilda Guzman
Hilda Guzman The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Amelia P. A. Travassos da Rosa
Amelia P. A. Travassos da Rosa The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Karl M. Johnson
Karl M. Johnson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shu-Yuan Xiao
Shu-Yuan Xiao University of Chicago
Amy C. Morrison
Amy C. Morrison University of California, Davis
Scott Leslie O'Neill
Scott Leslie O'Neill Monash University
Alan D.T. Barrett
Alan D.T. Barrett The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Theodore G. Andreadis
Theodore G. Andreadis Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Douglas M. Watts
Douglas M. Watts The University of Texas at El Paso

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