L. M. Dunster

Kenya Medical Research Institute — KE

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Viral Infections and Vectors(15), Virology and Viral Diseases(11), Mosquito-borne diseases and control(10), Respiratory viral infections research(7), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research(7)

Publications28 total

Tickborne Arbovirus Surveillance in Market Livestock, Nairobi, Kenya
Emerging infectious diseases·2006· 82 citedOpen Access
Tickborne Arbovirus Surveillance in Market Livestock, Nairobi, Kenya
Emerging infectious diseases·2006· 5 citedOpen Access
Isolation of a new flavivirus related to Cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) from field-collected flood-water Aedes mosquitoes sampled from a dambo in central Kenya
Archives of Virology·2003· 129 cited
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of the newly described insect flavivirus, Kamiti River virus
Archives of Virology·2003· 164 citedOpen Access
First Documentation of Human Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Kenya
Emerging infectious diseases·2002· 79 citedOpen Access
An Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98
Emerging infectious diseases·2002· 310 citedOpen Access
A Reassortant Bunyavirus Isolated from Acute Hemorrhagic Fever Cases in Kenya and Somalia
Virology·2001· 147 cited
The growing threat of arbovirus transmission and outbreaks in Kenya: a review
East African Medical Journal·2001· 54 citedOpen Access
O'Nyong-Nyong Fever in South-Central Uganda, 1996--1997: Clinical Features and Validation of a Clinical Case Definition for Surveillance Purposes
Clinical Infectious Diseases·1999· 99 citedOpen Access
Molecular and Biological Changes Associated with HeLa Cell Attenuation of Wild-Type Yellow Fever Virus
Virology·1999· 38 cited
Mapping Amino Acids of the Measles Virus Hemagglutinin Responsible for Receptor (CD46) Downregulation
Virology·1996· 97 cited
Receptor (CD46) modulation and complement-mediated lysis of uninfected cells after contact with measles virus-infected cells
Journal of Virology·1996· 55 citedOpen Access
Differential downregulation of CD46 by measles virus strains
Journal of Virology·1995· 72 citedOpen Access
Measles virus replication in neural cells
Trends in Microbiology·1995· 4 cited
Moesin, and not the murine functional homologue (Crry/p65) of human membrane cofactor protein (CD46), is involved in the entry of measles virus (strain Edmonston) into susceptible murine cell lines
Journal of General Virology·1995· 24 cited
Receptor usage and differential downregulation of CD46 by measles virus wild-type and vaccine strains.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·1995· 142 citedOpen Access
Physical association of moesin and CD46 as a receptor complex for measles virus
Journal of Virology·1995· 79 citedOpen Access
Measles virus‐induced down‐regulation of CD46 is associated with enhanced sensitivity to complement‐mediated lysis of infected cells
European Journal of Immunology·1995· 94 cited
Measles Virus Gene Expression in Neural Cells
Current topics in microbiology and immunology·1995· 27 cited
The role of host factors in measles virus persistence
Seminars in Virology·1994· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Volker ter Meulen(10), Jürgen Schneider‐Schaulies(8), Alan D.T. Barrett(7), Philip D. Minor(6), Rosemary Sang(5), Barry R. Miller(5), Mary B. Crabtree(4), Jens‐Jörg Schnorr(4), Victor Ofula(4), C.A. Gibson(4), S Schneider-Schaulies(3), John Gachoya(3), Sibylle Schneider‐Schaulies(3), Reinhard Schwartz‐Albiez(3), Bijon Kumar Sil(3), T.N. Ledger(3), Robert Swanepoel(2), Thomas G. Ksiazek(2), C. J. Peters(2), Ute Brinckmann(2)