Pierre Formenty

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Top papers

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1 Ebola virus disease in West Africa--the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections. N Engl J Med 2014 28.65
2 Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea. N Engl J Med 2014 16.45
3 Multiple Ebola virus transmission events and rapid decline of central African wildlife. Science 2004 5.49
4 The international Ebola emergency. N Engl J Med 2014 5.35
5 Human Ebola outbreak resulting from direct exposure to fruit bats in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2009 4.24
6 Panmicrobial oligonucleotide array for diagnosis of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 3.51
7 Marburg hemorrhagic fever associated with multiple genetic lineages of virus. N Engl J Med 2006 3.38
8 Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 3.35
9 West African Ebola epidemic after one year--slowing but not yet under control. N Engl J Med 2014 2.96
10 Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes. Curr Biol 2008 2.73
11 Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus. N Engl J Med 2015 2.71
12 Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories. Lancet 2012 2.71
13 Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 2.69
14 The origin of malignant malaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 2.67
15 A tale of two clades: monkeypox viruses. J Gen Virol 2005 2.24
16 Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. N Engl J Med 2014 2.19
17 Marburg virus Angola infection of rhesus macaques: pathogenesis and treatment with recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein c2. J Infect Dis 2007 2.09
18 Anthrax kills wild chimpanzees in a tropical rainforest. Nature 2004 2.01
19 Extended interhuman transmission of monkeypox in a hospital community in the Republic of the Congo, 2003. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2005 1.91
20 Outbreaks of disease suspected of being due to human monkeypox virus infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001. J Clin Microbiol 2002 1.86
21 Prediction, assessment of the Rift Valley fever activity in East and Southern Africa 2006-2008 and possible vector control strategies. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2010 1.81
22 The use of a mobile laboratory unit in support of patient management and epidemiological surveillance during the 2005 Marburg Outbreak in Angola. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2011 1.53
23 Endemic human monkeypox, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2001-2004. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 1.47
24 Trigger events: enviroclimatic coupling of Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004 1.45
25 Outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever among miners in Kamwenge and Ibanda Districts, Uganda, 2007. J Infect Dis 2011 1.37
26 Conflict and emerging infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 1.36
27 Laboratory diagnosis of Ebola hemorrhagic fever during an outbreak in Yambio, Sudan, 2004. J Infect Dis 2007 1.27
28 Interspecies transmission of simian foamy virus in a natural predator-prey system. J Virol 2008 1.25
29 High variety of different simian T-cell leukemia virus type 1 strains in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. J Virol 2004 1.22
30 Emergence of divergent Zaire ebola virus strains in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007 and 2008. J Infect Dis 2011 1.20
31 Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for laboratory animal-adapted strains and variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae. Arch Virol 2013 1.16
32 Lessons learned during active epidemiological surveillance of Ebola and Marburg viral hemorrhagic fever epidemics in Africa. East Afr J Public Health 2010 1.11
33 Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for filovirus strains and variants rescued from cDNA. Arch Virol 2013 1.10
34 Full-length genome characterization of a novel simian immunodeficiency virus lineage (SIVolc) from olive Colobus (Procolobus verus) and new SIVwrcPbb strains from Western Red Colobus (Piliocolobus badius badius) from the Tai Forest in Ivory Coast. J Virol 2008 1.09
35 Partial molecular characterization of two simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIV) from African colobids: SIVwrc from Western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius) and SIVolc from olive colobus (Procolobus verus). J Virol 2003 1.03
36 Using remote sensing to map the risk of human monkeypox virus in the Congo Basin. Ecohealth 2010 1.00
37 Lessons learned about pneumonic plague diagnosis from two outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Emerg Infect Dis 2011 0.99
38 Mobile diagnostics in outbreak response, not only for Ebola: a blueprint for a modular and robust field laboratory. Euro Surveill 2015 0.99
39 Prevalence and genetic diversity of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius badius) from the Taï forest, Côte d'Ivoire SIVwrc in wild-living western red colobus monkeys. Infect Genet Evol 2007 0.98
40 Development of an immunofiltration-based antigen-detection assay for rapid diagnosis of Ebola virus infection. J Infect Dis 2007 0.94
41 Ecology and geography of human monkeypox case occurrences across Africa. J Wildl Dis 2012 0.94
42 No evidence for transmission of SIVwrc from western red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius badius) to wild West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) despite high exposure through hunting. BMC Microbiol 2011 0.93
43 Unusual Ebola Virus Chain of Transmission, Conakry, Guinea, 2014-2015. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.84
44 Mapping monkeypox transmission risk through time and space in the Congo Basin. PLoS One 2013 0.83