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Udeni B. R. Balasuriya
Researcher at Louisiana State University
Publications - 168
Citations - 5445
Udeni B. R. Balasuriya is an academic researcher from Louisiana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Equine viral arteritis. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 154 publications receiving 4642 citations. Previous affiliations of Udeni B. R. Balasuriya include University of Idaho & University of Kentucky.
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Discovery of a small arterivirus gene that overlaps the GP5 coding sequence and is important for virus production
Andrew E. Firth,Jessika C. Zevenhoven-Dobbe,Norma M. Wills,Yun Young Go,Udeni B. R. Balasuriya,John F. Atkins,John F. Atkins,Eric J. Snijder,Clara C. Posthuma +8 more
TL;DR: An in-depth computational analysis reveals the arterivirus-wide conservation of an additional AUG-initiated ORF, here termed ORF5a, that overlaps the 5′ end of OrF5, and indicates that the novel protein, which may be the eighth structural protein of arteriviruses, is expressed and important for arteriv virus infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 infection, disease and transmission in domestic cats.
Natasha N. Gaudreault,Jessie D. Trujillo,Mariano Carossino,David A. Meekins,Igor Morozov,Daniel W. Madden,Sabarish V. Indran,Dashzeveg Bold,Velmurugan Balaraman,Taeyong Kwon,Bianca Libanori Artiaga,Konner Cool,Adolfo García-Sastre,Wenjun Ma,William C. Wilson,Jamie Henningson,Udeni B. R. Balasuriya,Juergen A. Richt +17 more
TL;DR: The results of this study are critical for understanding the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 in a naturally susceptible host species, and for risk assessment.
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Zoonotic encephalitides caused by arboviruses: transmission and epidemiology of alphaviruses and flaviviruses
TL;DR: This review focuses on zoonotic encephalitides caused by arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) of the families Flaviviridae and Togaviridae that are important in both humans and domestic animals that have dispersed widely and currently cause diseases around the world.
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Alphavirus replicon particles expressing the two major envelope proteins of equine arteritis virus induce high level protection against challenge with virulent virus in vaccinated horses
Udeni B. R. Balasuriya,Hans W. Heidner,Nancy L. Davis,Heike M. Wagner,Pamela J. Hullinger,Jodi F. Hedges,Jacqueline C. Williams,Robert E. Johnston,W. David Wilson,Irwin K. M. Liu,N. James MacLachlan +10 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that replicons that co-express the G(L) and M envelope proteins effectively, induce EAV neutralizing antibodies and protective immunity in horses.
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Temporal detection of equine herpesvirus infections of a cohort of mares and their foals
Stephanie A. Bell,Udeni B. R. Balasuriya,Ian A. Gardner,Peter A. Barry,W. David Wilson,Gregory L. Ferraro,N. James MacLachlan +6 more
TL;DR: Although herpesvirus infections were ubiquitous in this cohort of horses, there were distinct clinical consequences and clear epidemiological differences between infections with the different viruses.