Gubler, Duane J, ScD, MS

Professor
Program Director for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Other affiliations:

Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Hawaii
Adjunct Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology, Colorado State University

phone: +65 6516 8594
Fax: +65 6221 2529
E-Mail: duane.gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg
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Research Interests:

Emerging infectious and vector-borne diseases; laboratory diagnosis, epidemiology, ecology, prevention and control

Selected Publications:

Artsob H, Gubler DJ, Enria DA, Morales MA, Pupo M, Bunning ML, Dudley JP, West Nile Virus in the New World: Trends in the Spread and Proliferation of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemisphere, Zoonoses and Public Health 56:357-369, 2009.

Gubler DJ, The global threat of emergent/reemergent vector-borne diseases. In: Vector-Borne Diseases: understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections; Institute of Medicine. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2008, p. 43-46

Gubler, DJ. The continuing spread of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemispher. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007: 45(8), p. 1039-46.

Gubler, DJ. Kuno G and Markoff L. Flaviviruses. In: Knipe DM, Howley PM, Griffin D, Lamb, Martin, Roizman B, Straus SE, editors. Fields Virology, Chapter 34, 5th ed. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins 2007, p.1153-1252.

Kuniholm MH, Wolfe ND, Huang CYH, Mpoudi-Ngole E, Tamoufe U, Burke DS, Gubler DJ. Seroprevalence and Distribution of Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, and Bunyaviridae Arboviral Infections in Rural Cameroonian Adults. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2006; 74(6):1978-1083.

Mackenzie JS, Gubler, DJ, Petersen LR. Emerging flaviviruses: the spread and resurgence of Japanese encephalitis, West Nile and dengue viruses. Nature Medicine 2004; 10:98-109.

Gubler DJ. The emergence of epidemic dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Americas: a case of failed public health policy. Pan Am J Public Health 2005; 17(4):221-224.

Gubler DJ. The changing epidemiology of yellow fever and dengue, 1900 to 2003: full circle? Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 2004; 27:319-330.

Gubler DJ. Cities spawn epidemic dengue viruses. Nature Medicine 2004;10(2):129-130.

Messer WB, Gubler DJ, Harris E, Sivananthan K, de Silva AM. Emergence and global spread of a dengue serotype 3, subtype III virus. Emerging Infect Dis 2003; 9(7):800-09.

Campbell GL, Marfin AA, Lanciotti RS, Gubler DJ. West Nile virus. Lancet 2002; 2:519-29.

Gubler DJ. Silent threat: Infectious diseases and U.S. biosecurity. Georgetown J International Affairs 2001; II(2):15-23.

Gubler DJ. The President’s Address: Prevention and control of tropical diseases in the 21st century: Back to the field. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2001; 65(1):x-xi.

Gubler DJ. Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. Clin Microbiol Rev 1998; 11(3):480-96.

Gubler DJ, Kuno G, editors. Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. London: CAB International Press; 1997

Gubler DJ. Aedes aegypti and Aedes aegypti-borne disease control in the 1990s: Top Down or Bottom Up. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1989; 40:571-8.

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