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Christopher N. Mores
Assistant Professor,
Epidemiology
Laboratory:
Phone:
225-578-9676
Fax:
225-578-9701
cmores@lsu.edu
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Education
B.S. Rutgers University • S.M. Harvard University • Sc.D. Harvard
University, School of Public Health • National Research Council funded
postdoctoral training at United States Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick
Research Interests
Dr. Mores is an arbovirologist,
trained in infectious disease epidemiology, who develops focused laboratory
and field studies to examine the mechanisms by which arboviruses persist in,
emerge from, and expand to particular ecologies, transmission cycles, and
regions. He takes, by necessity, an interdisciplinary approach to these
studies, melding expertise in viral ecology, isolation and characterization
with those of his collaborators in molecular biology, zoology, entomology,
and clinical diagnosis – to name a few. The theoretical basis of his
research is that intrinsic characteristics of an arbovirus act powerfully
upon the transmission of that virus, and that these characteristics often
result in further extrinsic interactions with other components of the
transmission cycle. Although this may seem intuitive, the relative
importance of the characteristics of the virus versus say, the vector,
environmental parameters, or the vertebrate host is often minimized in
arbovirus research and as such remains poorly investigated and understood.
Selected Publications
Alto BW, Lounibos LP, Mores CN, Reiskind MH.
Larval competition alters susceptibility of adult Aedes mosquitoes to
dengue infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series
B, Biological Sciences 275(1633):463-71. 2008
Turell MJ, Whitehouse CA, Butler A, Baldwin C, Hottel H, Mores CN.
Assay for and Replication of Karshi (Mammalian Tick-Borne Flavivirus Group)
Virus in Mice. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
78(2):344-347. 2008
Blow JA, Mores CN, Dyer JL, Dohm DJ.
Virus stabilization by AVL buffer. Journal of Virological Methods
150(1-2): 41-44. 2008
Young DS, Maffei JG, Mores CN, Bernard KA, Kramer LD, Ebel GD.
Molecular epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis virus epizootics in
New York State. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(3): 454-60. 2008.
Reiskind M, Pesko K, Mores C, Westbrook C.
Susceptibility of Florida mosquitoes to infection with chikungunya virus.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 78(3): 422-5. 2008.
Vitek CJ, Richards SL, Mores CN, Day JF, Lord CC.
Arbovirus transmission by Culex nigripalpus Theobald in Florida, 2005.
Journal of Medical Entomology 45(3): 483-93. 2008.
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