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Douglas M. Watts to Animals

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  1. Valdez KR, Mendell NL, Esc?rcega-?vila AM, de la Mora-Covarrubias A, Jim?nez-Vega F, Waldrup KA, Suarez V, Morrill JC, Weldon CT, Bouyer DH, Walker DH, Weaver SC, Blanton LS, Palermo PM, Watts DM. Survey of Fleas and Ticks for Rickettsia rickettsii and Rickettsia typhi in the El Paso Community and Other Areas in Texas, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025 Sep 03; 113(3):659-665.
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    Score: 0.070
  2. Valdez K, Aguilar PV, Fernandez D, Bamunuarachchi G, Boon ACM, Morrill JC, Palermo PM, Watts DM. Surveillance for Serological Evidence of Bourbon and Heartland Virus Infection in White-Tailed Deer and Feral Swine in Texas. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2025 04; 25(4):295-302.
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    Score: 0.069
  3. Vera AJ, Soliz AG, Vera KR, Ortega OJ, Jeon S, Su X, de la Mora-Covarubbias A, Lavretsky P, Watts DM. Environmental influences on Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) population densities across 2 urban communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. J Med Entomol. 2025 Mar 17; 62(2):449-457.
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    Score: 0.069
  4. Walker WE, Garcia LF, Palermo PM, Hakim N, Goswami DG, Dwivedi AK, Watts DM. Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 Exacerbates the Severity of COVID-19 in Mice. Crit Care Explor. 2025 Mar; 7(3):e1225.
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    Score: 0.069
  5. Vera AJ, Soliz AG, de la Mora-Covarrubias A, Watts DM. Aedes aegypti oviposition in urban communities in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. J Vector Borne Dis. 2024 Oct-Dec 01; 61(4):626-629.
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    Score: 0.067
  6. Watts DM, Westover JLB, Palermo PM, Bailey KW, Morrill JC, Bettinger GE, Monath TP, Smith DR, Peters CJ, Pittman PR, Orbegozo J, Gowen BB. Estimation of the Minimal Rift Valley Fever Virus Protective Neutralizing Antibody Titer in Human Volunteers Immunized with MP-12 Vaccine Based on Protection in a Mouse Model of Disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 11 14; 107(5):1091-1098.
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    Score: 0.058
  7. Palermo PM, Orbegozo J, Morrill JC, Watts DM. Serological Evidence of West Nile Virus Infection in White-Tailed Deer in Central Texas. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2020 11; 20(11):850-854.
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    Score: 0.050
  8. Salekwa LP, Wambura PN, Matiko MK, Watts DM. Circulation of Rift Valley Fever Virus Antibody in Cattle during Inter-Epizootic/Epidemic Periods in Selected Regions of Tanzania. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 08; 101(2):459-466.
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    Score: 0.047
  9. Turell MJ, Gozalo AS, Guevara C, Schoeler GB, Carbajal F, L?pez-Sifuentes VM, Watts DM. Lack of Evidence of Sylvatic Transmission of Dengue Viruses in the Amazon Rainforest Near Iquitos, Peru. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2019 09; 19(9):685-689.
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    Score: 0.046
  10. Nyundo S, Adamson E, Rowland J, Palermo PM, Matiko M, Bettinger GE, Wambura P, Morrill JC, Watts DM. Safety and immunogenicity of Rift Valley fever MP-12 and arMP-12?NSm21/384 vaccine candidates in goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) from Tanzania. Onderstepoort J Vet Res. 2019 Jan 31; 86(1):e1-e8.
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    Score: 0.045
  11. Cardenas VM, Jaime J, Ford PB, Gonzalez FJ, Carrillo I, Gallegos JE, Watts DM. Yard flooding by irrigation canals increased the risk of West Nile disease in El Paso, Texas. Ann Epidemiol. 2011 Dec; 21(12):922-9.
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    Score: 0.027
  12. Siirin MT, Travassos da Rosa AP, Newman P, Weeks-Levy C, Coller BA, Xiao SY, Lieberman MM, Watts DM. Evaluation of the efficacy of a recombinant subunit West Nile vaccine in Syrian golden hamsters. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Dec; 79(6):955-62.
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    Score: 0.022
  13. Watts DM, Tesh RB, Siirin M, Rosa AT, Newman PC, Clements DE, Ogata S, Coller BA, Weeks-Levy C, Lieberman MM. Efficacy and durability of a recombinant subunit West Nile vaccine candidate in protecting hamsters from West Nile encephalitis. Vaccine. 2007 Apr 12; 25(15):2913-8.
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    Score: 0.019
  14. Bamouh Z, Hamdi J, Elkarhat Z, Kichou F, Fellahi S, Watts DM, Elharrak M. Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of camel contagious ecthyma virus in Morocco. Microb Pathog. 2025 Jan; 198:107130.
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    Score: 0.017
  15. Torres JR, Russell KL, Vasquez C, Barrera R, Tesh RB, Salas R, Watts DM. Family cluster of Mayaro fever, Venezuela. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Jul; 10(7):1304-6.
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    Score: 0.016
  16. Vera AJ, Soliz AG, Khatchikian CE, de la Mora-Covarrubias A, Watts DM, Lavretsky P. Genomic Analysis of Aedes aegypti in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert of Texas and Mexico. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2024 10; 24(10):673-681.
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    Score: 0.016
  17. Hearst S, Palermo PM, Watts DM, Campbell K, Ivey R, Young C, Yarbrough W, Facundus E, Spears J, Mills S, McNeely KA, Ray P, Burnett GC, Bates GT, Bates JT. Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody in Mississippi White-Tailed Deer. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2024 10; 24(10):682-688.
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    Score: 0.016
  18. Palermo PM, Orbegozo J, Watts DM, Morrill JC. Serosurveillance for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody in Feral Swine and White-Tailed Deer in Texas. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2023 07; 23(7):397-400.
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    Score: 0.015
  19. Bamouh Z, Hamdi J, Elkarhat Z, Fellahi S, Omari Tadlaoui K, Watts DM, Fassi Fihri O, Elharrak M. Attenuation and genetic characteristics of a Moroccan strain of Camel pox virus. Vaccine. 2022 10 26; 40(45):6471-6480.
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    Score: 0.015
  20. Palermo PM, Orbegozo J, Watts DM, Morrill JC. SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies in White-Tailed Deer from Texas. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2022 01; 22(1):62-64.
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    Score: 0.014
  21. Rodriguez F, Luna BS, Calderon O, Manriquez-Roman C, Amezcua-Winter K, Cedillo J, Garcia-Vazquez R, Tejeda IA, Romero A, Waldrup K, Watts DM, Khatchikian C, Maldonado RA. Surveillance of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Triatomine vectors, feral dogs and cats, and wild animals in and around El Paso county, Texas, and New Mexico. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 02; 15(2):e0009147.
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    Score: 0.013
  22. Padilla SL, Prieto K, Dohm DJ, Turell MJ, Klein TA, Fern?ndez R, Watts DM, Lowen RG, Palacios GF, Pitt ML, Wiley MR, Nasar F. Complete genomic sequences of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus subtype IIID isolates from mosquitoes. Arch Virol. 2020 Jul; 165(7):1715-1717.
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    Score: 0.012
  23. Diallo D, Diagne CT, Buenemann M, Ba Y, Dia I, Faye O, Sall AA, Faye O, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Hanley KA, Diallo M. Biodiversity Pattern of Mosquitoes in Southeastern Senegal, Epidemiological Implication in Arbovirus and Malaria Transmission. J Med Entomol. 2019 02 25; 56(2):453-463.
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    Score: 0.011
  24. Althouse BM, Guerbois M, Cummings DAT, Diop OM, Faye O, Faye A, Diallo D, Sadio BD, Sow A, Faye O, Sall AA, Diallo M, Benefit B, Simons E, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Hanley KA. Role of monkeys in the sylvatic cycle of chikungunya virus in Senegal. Nat Commun. 2018 03 13; 9(1):1046.
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    Score: 0.011
  25. Guzman H, Contreras-Gutierrez MA, Travassos da Rosa APA, Nunes MRT, Cardoso JF, Popov VL, Young KI, Savit C, Wood TG, Widen SG, Watts DM, Hanley KA, Perera D, Fish D, Vasilakis N, Tesh RB. Characterization of Three New Insect-Specific Flaviviruses: Their Relationship to the Mosquito-Borne Flavivirus Pathogens. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 02; 98(2):410-419.
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    Score: 0.010
  26. Wang X, Zhang J, Baylink DJ, Li CH, Watts DM, Xu Y, Qin X, Walter MH, Tang X. Targeting Non-classical Myelin Epitopes to Treat Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. Sci Rep. 2016 10 31; 6:36064.
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    Score: 0.010
  27. Althouse BM, Hanley KA, Diallo M, Sall AA, Ba Y, Faye O, Diallo D, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Cummings DA. Impact of climate and mosquito vector abundance on sylvatic arbovirus circulation dynamics in Senegal. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Jan; 92(1):88-97.
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    Score: 0.008
  28. Bente DA, Forrester NL, Watts DM, McAuley AJ, Whitehouse CA, Bray M. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: history, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical syndrome and genetic diversity. Antiviral Res. 2013 Oct; 100(1):159-89.
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    Score: 0.008
  29. Beasley DW, Morin M, Lamb AR, Hayman E, Watts DM, Lee CK, Trent DW, Monath TP. Adaptation of yellow fever virus 17D to Vero cells is associated with mutations in structural and non-structural protein genes. Virus Res. 2013 Sep; 176(1-2):280-4.
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    Score: 0.008
  30. Xu W, Watts DM, Costanzo MC, Tang X, Venegas LA, Jiao F, Sette A, Sidney J, Sewell AK, Wooldridge L, Makino S, Morrill JC, Peters CJ, Kan-Mitchell J. The nucleocapsid protein of Rift Valley fever virus is a potent human CD8+ T cell antigen and elicits memory responses. PLoS One. 2013; 8(3):e59210.
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    Score: 0.007
  31. Vasilakis N, Forrester NL, Palacios G, Nasar F, Savji N, Rossi SL, Guzman H, Wood TG, Popov V, Gorchakov R, Gonz?lez AV, Haddow AD, Watts DM, da Rosa AP, Weaver SC, Lipkin WI, Tesh RB. Negevirus: a proposed new taxon of insect-specific viruses with wide geographic distribution. J Virol. 2013 Mar; 87(5):2475-88.
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    Score: 0.007
  32. Althouse BM, Lessler J, Sall AA, Diallo M, Hanley KA, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Cummings DA. Synchrony of sylvatic dengue isolations: a multi-host, multi-vector SIR model of dengue virus transmission in Senegal. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012; 6(11):e1928.
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    Score: 0.007
  33. Diallo D, Sall AA, Buenemann M, Chen R, Faye O, Diagne CT, Faye O, Ba Y, Dia I, Watts D, Weaver SC, Hanley KA, Diallo M. Landscape ecology of sylvatic chikungunya virus and mosquito vectors in southeastern Senegal. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012; 6(6):e1649.
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    Score: 0.007
  34. Reinbold-Wasson DD, Sardelis MR, Jones JW, Watts DM, Fernandez R, Carbajal F, Pecor JE, Calampa C, Klein TA, Turell MJ. Determinants of Anopheles seasonal distribution patterns across a forest to periurban gradient near Iquitos, Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Mar; 86(3):459-63.
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    Score: 0.007
  35. Arrigo NC, Adams AP, Watts DM, Newman PC, Weaver SC. Cotton rats and house sparrows as hosts for North and South American strains of eastern equine encephalitis virus. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep; 16(9):1373-80.
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    Score: 0.006
  36. Monath TP, Lee CK, Julander JG, Brown A, Beasley DW, Watts DM, Hayman E, Guertin P, Makowiecki J, Crowell J, Levesque P, Bowick GC, Morin M, Fowler E, Trent DW. Inactivated yellow fever 17D vaccine: development and nonclinical safety, immunogenicity and protective activity. Vaccine. 2010 May 14; 28(22):3827-40.
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    Score: 0.006
  37. Yoshikawa N, Yoshikawa T, Hill T, Huang C, Watts DM, Makino S, Milligan G, Chan T, Peters CJ, Tseng CT. Differential virological and immunological outcome of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in susceptible and resistant transgenic mice expressing human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. J Virol. 2009 Jun; 83(11):5451-65.
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    Score: 0.006
  38. Turell MJ, Sardelis MR, Jones JW, Watts DM, Fernandez R, Carbajal F, Pecor JE, Klein TA. Seasonal distribution, biology, and human attraction patterns of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in a rural village and adjacent forested site near Iquitos, Peru. J Med Entomol. 2008 Nov; 45(6):1165-72.
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    Score: 0.006
  39. Arrigo NC, Watts DM, Frolov I, Weaver SC. Experimental infection of Aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric Sindbis/Eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Jan; 78(1):93-7.
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    Score: 0.005
  40. Lokugamage KG, Yoshikawa-Iwata N, Ito N, Watts DM, Wyde PR, Wang N, Newman P, Kent Tseng CT, Peters CJ, Makino S. Chimeric coronavirus-like particles carrying severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SCoV) S protein protect mice against challenge with SCoV. Vaccine. 2008 Feb 06; 26(6):797-808.
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    Score: 0.005
  41. Aguilar PV, Robich RM, Turell MJ, O'Guinn ML, Klein TA, Huaman A, Guevara C, Rios Z, Tesh RB, Watts DM, Olson J, Weaver SC. Endemic eastern equine encephalitis in the Amazon region of Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007 Feb; 76(2):293-8.
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    Score: 0.005
  42. Siirin MT, Duan T, Lei H, Guzman H, da Rosa AP, Watts DM, Xiao SY, Tesh RB. Chronic St. Louis encephalitis virus infection in the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007 Feb; 76(2):299-306.
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    Score: 0.005
  43. Tseng CT, Huang C, Newman P, Wang N, Narayanan K, Watts DM, Makino S, Packard MM, Zaki SR, Chan TS, Peters CJ. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection of mice transgenic for the human Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 virus receptor. J Virol. 2007 Feb; 81(3):1162-73.
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    Score: 0.005
  44. Powers AM, Aguilar PV, Chandler LJ, Brault AC, Meakins TA, Watts D, Russell KL, Olson J, Vasconcelos PF, Da Rosa AT, Weaver SC, Tesh RB. Genetic relationships among Mayaro and Una viruses suggest distinct patterns of transmission. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Sep; 75(3):461-9.
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    Score: 0.005
  45. Lieberman MM, Clements DE, Ogata S, Wang G, Corpuz G, Wong T, Martyak T, Gilson L, Coller BA, Leung J, Watts DM, Tesh RB, Siirin M, Travassos da Rosa A, Humphreys T, Weeks-Levy C. Preparation and immunogenic properties of a recombinant West Nile subunit vaccine. Vaccine. 2007 Jan 05; 25(3):414-23.
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    Score: 0.005
  46. Aguilar PV, Paessler S, Carrara AS, Baron S, Poast J, Wang E, Moncayo AC, Anishchenko M, Watts D, Tesh RB, Weaver SC. Variation in interferon sensitivity and induction among strains of eastern equine encephalitis virus. J Virol. 2005 Sep; 79(17):11300-10.
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    Score: 0.004
  47. Xiao SY, Sbrana E, Watts DM, Siirin M, da Rosa AP, Tesh RB. Experimental infection of prairie dogs with monkeypox virus. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Apr; 11(4):539-45.
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    Score: 0.004
  48. Kochel TJ, Watts DM, Gozalo AS, Ewing DF, Porter KR, Russell KL. Cross-serotype neutralization of dengue virus in Aotus nancymae monkeys. J Infect Dis. 2005 Mar 15; 191(6):1000-4.
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    Score: 0.004
  49. Morrison AC, Gray K, Getis A, Astete H, Sihuincha M, Focks D, Watts D, Stancil JD, Olson JG, Blair P, Scott TW. Temporal and geographic patterns of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) production in Iquitos, Peru. J Med Entomol. 2004 Nov; 41(6):1123-42.
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    Score: 0.004
  50. Tesh RB, Watts DM, Sbrana E, Siirin M, Popov VL, Xiao SY. Experimental infection of ground squirrels (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) with monkeypox virus. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Sep; 10(9):1563-7.
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    Score: 0.004
  51. Jones JW, Turell MJ, Sardelis MR, Watts DM, Coleman RE, Fernandez R, Carbajal F, Pecor JE, Calampa C, Klein TA. Seasonal distribution, biology, and human attraction patterns of culicine mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in a forest near Puerto Almendras, Iquitos, Peru. J Med Entomol. 2004 May; 41(3):349-60.
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    Score: 0.004
  52. Mercer DR, Spinelli GR, Watts DM, Tesh RB. Biting rates and developmental substrates for biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Iquitos, Peru. J Med Entomol. 2003 Nov; 40(6):807-12.
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    Score: 0.004
  53. Bryant J, Wang H, Cabezas C, Ramirez G, Watts D, Russell K, Barrett A. Enzootic transmission of yellow fever virus in Peru. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Aug; 9(8):926-33.
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    Score: 0.004
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