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Paul A. Rota

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  276
Citations -  26506

Paul A. Rota is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Measles & Measles virus. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 267 publications receiving 23802 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul A. Rota include World Health Organization & National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

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Nipah Virus: A Recently Emergent Deadly Paramyxovirus

TL;DR: Electron microscopic, serologic, and genetic studies indicate that the Nipah virus belongs to the family Paramyxoviridae and is most closely related to the recently discovered Hendra virus, and it is suggested that these two viruses are representative of a new genus within the familyparamyxviridae.
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Cocirculation of two distinct evolutionary lineages of influenza type B virus since 1983.

TL;DR: This article showed that B/Yamagata/16/88-like viruses were more closely related to epidemic viruses from 1983 (B/USSR/100/83) than to more recent reference strains such as B/Victoria/2/87.
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Nipah virus infection in bats (order Chiroptera) in peninsular Malaysia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected 324 bats from 14 species on peninsular Malaysia and demonstrated that neutralizing antibodies to Nipah virus were demonstrated in five species, suggesting widespread infection in bat populations in Malaysia.