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Stéphan Zientara

Stéphan Zientara

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Microbiology

D-Index
58
Citations
12436
World Ranking
3415
National Ranking
197

Overview

Stéphan Zientara is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant focus on Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Epidemiology.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Frequent coauthors in their research network include Emmanuel Bréard, Corinne Sailleau, Gaëlle Gonzalez, Damien Vitour, and Labib Bakkali-Kassimi.

Their publications are often featured in journals such as Viruses, Virologie, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Bulletin de l Académie vétérinaire de France, and Equine Veterinary Journal.

Recent papers by Stéphan Zientara include:

  • The Genome Segments of Bluetongue Virus Differ in Copy Number in a Host-Specific Manner, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • First detection and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in an infected cat in France, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • The antibody response induced FMDV vaccines in sheep correlates with early transcriptomic responses in blood, 2020, npj Vaccines
  • Contrasted Epidemiological Patterns of West Nile Virus Lineages 1 and 2 Infections in France from 2015 to 2019, 2020, Pathogens
  • A One-Health Approach to Investigating an Outbreak of Alimentary Tick-Borne Encephalitis in a Non-endemic Area in France (Ain, Eastern France): A Longitudinal Serological Study in Livestock, Detection in Ticks, and the First Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Isolation and Molecular Characterisation, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • The atomic structure of the bluetongue virus core

    Jonathan M. Grimes;J. Nicholas Burroughs;Patrice Gouet;Jonathan M. Diprose;Jonathan M. Diprose

  • Bluetongue virus detection by two real-time RT-qPCRs targeting two different genomic segments.

    J.F. Toussaint;C. Sailleau;E. Breard;S. Zientara

  • West Nile outbreak in horses in Southern France, 2000: the return after 35 years.

    Bernadette Murgue;Séverine Murri;Stephan Zientara;Benoît Durand

  • Bluetongue virus: virology, pathogenesis and immunity.

    Isabelle Schwartz-Cornil;Peter P C Mertens;Vanessa Contreras;Behzad Hemati

  • West Nile: worldwide current situation in animals and humans

    Gwenaëlle Dauphin;Stéphan Zientara;Hervé Zeller;Bernadette Murgue

  • First detection and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in an infected cat in France.

    Corinne Sailleau;Marine Dumarest;Jessica Vanhomwegen;Manon Delaplace

  • Vaccines against bluetongue in Europe

    Giovanni Savini;N. James MacLachlan;José-Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaino;Stéphan Zientara

  • Sequence analysis of bluetongue virus serotype 8 from the Netherlands 2006 and comparison to other European strains

    Sushila Maan;Narender S. Maan;Natalie Ross-smith;Carrie A. Batten

  • The highly ordered double-stranded RNA genome of bluetongue virus revealed by crystallography

    P. Gouet;J. M. Diprose;J. M. Grimes;R. Malby

  • West Nile virus: recent trends in diagnosis and vaccine development.

    G. Dauphin;S. Zientara

  • Flaviviruses in Europe: complex circulation patterns and their consequences for the diagnosis and control of West Nile disease.

    Cécile Beck;Miguel Angel Jimenez-Clavero;Agnès Leblond;Benoît Durand

  • Novel Bluetongue Virus in Goats, Corsica, France, 2014

    Stéphan Zientara;Corinne Sailleau;Cyril Viarouge;Dirck Höper

  • West Nile virus outbreak in horses, southern France, 2000: results of a serosurvey.

    Benoit Durand;Véronique Chevalier;Régis Pouillot;Jacques Labie

  • Widespread Reassortment Shapes the Evolution and Epidemiology of Bluetongue Virus following European Invasion.

    Kyriaki Nomikou;Joseph Hughes;Rachael Wash;Paul Kellam

  • Control of bluetongue in Europe

    Stéphan Zientara;José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno

  • Isolation and Characterization of an Equine Foamy Virus

    Joelle Tobaly-Tapiero;Patricia Bittoun;Manuel Neves;Marie-Claude Guillemin

  • The antibody response induced FMDV vaccines in sheep correlates with early transcriptomic responses in blood

    Luc Jouneau;David J Lefebvre;Fleur Costa;Aurore Romey

  • Epidemiology, molecular virology and diagnostics of Schmallenberg virus, an emerging orthobunyavirus in Europe

    Virginie Doceul;Estelle Lara;Corinne Sailleau;Guillaume Belbis

  • Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006.

    Jean-François Toussaint;Corinne Sailleau;Jan Mast;Philippe Houdart

  • The genome segments of Bluetongue virus differ in copy number in a host-specific manner.

    Yannis Moreau;Patricia Gil;Antoni Exbrayat;Ignace Rakotoarivony

  • First detection and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in an infected cat in France

    Corinne Sailleau;Marine Dumarest;Jessica Vanhomwegen;Manon Delaplace

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter P. C. Mertens
Peter P. C. Mertens University of Nottingham
Benoit Durand
Benoit Durand French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety
Martin Beer
Martin Beer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Anette Bøtner
Anette Bøtner University of Copenhagen
Christine Fourichon
Christine Fourichon INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Mariano Domingo
Mariano Domingo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Antonio Velarde
Antonio Velarde Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Preben Willeberg
Preben Willeberg Safoso (Switzerland)
Simon J. More
Simon J. More University College Dublin
Sandra A. Edwards
Sandra A. Edwards Newcastle University

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