Publications

Salgado R, Hawks SA, Frere F, Vázquez A, Huang CY, Duggal NK. West Nile virus vaccination protects against Usutu virus disease in mice. Viruses (in press).

Hawks SA, Prussin AJ, Kuchinsky SC, Pan J, Marr LC, Duggal NK. Infectious SARS-CoV-2 is emitted in aerosol particles. mBio (2021). doi: 10.1128/mBio.02527-21

Vogt MB, Frere F, Hawks SA, Perez CA, Coutermarsh-Ott S, Duggal NK. Persistence of Zika virus RNA in the epididymis of the male reproductive tract. Virology doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2021.05.001.

Kuchinsky SC, Frere F, Heitzman-Breen N, Golden J, Vázquez A, Honaker CF, Siegel PB, Ciupe SM, LeRoith T, Duggal NK. Pathogenesis and shedding of Usutu virus in juvenile chickens. Emerg Microbes Infect. (2021) doi: 10.1080/22221751.2021.1908850.

Kuchinsky SC, Hawks SA, Mossel EC, Coutermarsh-Ott S, Duggal NK. Differential pathogenesis of Usutu virus isolates in mice. PLoS NTDs (2020). doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008765.

Duggal NK, McDonald EM, Weger-Lucarelli J, Hawks SA, Ritter JM, Romo H, Ebel GD, Brault AC. Mutations present in a low-passage Zika isolate result in attenuated pathogenesis in mice. Virology (2019). doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.02.004

Duggal NK, Langwig KE, Ebel GD, Brault AC. On the Fly: Interactions between birds, mosquitoes, and environment that have molded West Nile virus genome structure over two decades. J Med Entomol (2019) doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz112

Mead PS*, Duggal NK*, Hook SA, Delorey M, Fischer M, Olzenak-McGuire D, Becksted H, Max RJ, Anishchenko M, Schwartz AM, Tzeng WP, Nelson C, McDonald EM, Brooks JT, Brault AC, Hinckley AF. Zika virus shedding in semen of symptomatically infected men. N Engl J Med (2018). doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1711038 *contributed equally

Duggal NK, McDonald EM, Ritter JM, Brault AC. Sexual transmission of Zika virus enhances in utero transmission in a mouse model. Sci Rep (2018) doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22840-6

Duggal NK, Ritter JM, Pestorius SE, Zaki SR, Davis BS, Chang GJ, Bowen RA, Brault AC. Frequent sexual transmission and prolonged viral RNA shedding in the seminal fluids of an immunodeficient mouse model of Zika virus. Cell Rep (2017). doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.056

McDonald EM*, Duggal NK*, Brault AC. Pathogenesis and sexual transmission potential of Spondweni and Zika viruses. PLoS NTDs (2017). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005990 *contributed equally

Duggal NK, Ritter JM, McDonald EM, Romo H, Guirakhoo F, Davis BS, Chang GJ, Brault AC. Differential neurovirulence of African and Asian genotype Zika virus isolates in outbred immunocompetent mice. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2017). doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0263

Weger-Lucarelli J*, Duggal NK*, Bullard-Feibelman K, Veselinovic M, Romo H, Nguyen C, Rückert C, Brault AC, Bowen RA, Stenglein M, Geiss B, Ebel GD. Development and characterization of a New World Zika virus reverse genetics system. J Virol (2016). doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01765-16 *contributed equally

Duggal NK, Reisen WK, Fang Y, Newman RM, Yang X, Ebel GD, Brault AC. Genotype-specific variation in West Nile virus dispersal in California. Virology 485: 79-85 (2015).

Duggal NK, Bosco-Lauth A, Bowen RA, Wheeler SS, Reisen WK, Felix TA, Mann BR, Romo H, Swetnam DS, Barrett AD, and Brault AC. Evidence for co-evolution of West Nile virus and House sparrows in North America. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(10):e3262 (2014).

Duggal NK, D’Anton M, Xiang J, Seiferth R, Day J, Nasci R, and Brault AC. Sequence analyses of 2012 West Nile virus isolates from Texas fail to associate viral genetic factors with outbreak magnitude. Am J Trop Med Hyg 89(2):205-10 (2013).