Robert G. Webster

Research interests

Publications

• Influenza

  Nature Reviews Disease Primers · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-018-0002-y

• The genesis and source of the H7N9 influenza viruses causing human infections in China

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12515

• Infectivity, Transmission, and Pathology of Human-Isolated H7N9 Influenza Virus in Ferrets and Pigs

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1239844

• Long-term evolution and transmission dynamics of swine influenza A virus

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10004

• TNF/iNOS-producing dendritic cells are the necessary evil of lethal influenza virus infection

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900655106

• Dating the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904991106

• Establishment of multiple sublineages of H5N1 influenza virus in Asia: Implications for pandemic control

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0511120103

• Pathogenesis of Hong Kong H5N1 influenza virus NS gene reassortants in mice: the role of cytokines and B- and T-cell responses

  Journal of General Virology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.80663-0

• H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl

  Nature · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03974

• H5N1 influenza: A protean pandemic threat

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0402443101

• Reemerging H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Hong Kong in 2002 Are Highly Pathogenic to Ducks

  Journal of Virology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.78.9.4892-4901.2004

• Genesis of a highly pathogenic and potentially pandemic H5N1 influenza virus in eastern Asia

  Nature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02746

• Universal primer set for the full-length amplification of all influenza A viruses

  Archives of Virology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050170002

• A DNA transfection system for generation of influenza A virus from eight plasmids

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 10.1073/pnas.100133697

• The Surface Glycoproteins of H5 Influenza Viruses Isolated from Humans, Chickens, and Wild Aquatic Birds Have Distinguishable Properties

  Journal of Virology · 1999 · 10.1128/jvi.73.2.1146-1155.1999

• Encyclopedia of virology

  Academic Press eBooks · 1999

• Molecular characterization of H9N2 influenza viruses: Were they the donors of the “internal” genes of H5N1 viruses in Hong Kong?

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 10.1073/pnas.96.16.9363

• Molecular Basis for the Generation in Pigs of Influenza A Viruses with Pandemic Potential

  Journal of Virology · 1998 · 10.1128/jvi.72.9.7367-7373.1998

• Human influenza A H5N1 virus related to a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

  The Lancet · 1998 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(97)11212-0

• Characterization of Avian H5N1 Influenza Viruses from Poultry in Hong Kong

  Virology · 1998 · 10.1006/viro.1998.9488

• DNA vaccines: protective immunizations by parenteral, mucosal, and gene-gun inoculations.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 10.1073/pnas.90.24.11478

• Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses

  Microbiological Reviews · 1992 · 10.1128/mr.56.1.152-179.1992

• Avian-to-human transmission of the PB1 gene of influenza A viruses in the 1957 and 1968 pandemics

  Journal of Virology · 1989 · 10.1128/jvi.63.11.4603-4608.1989

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