Rabies Laboratory,
Wadsworth Center,
Rabies Laboratory, Wadsworth Center
April Davis is the Director of the Rabies Laboratory at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center. She was an Emerging Infectious Disease Fellow from 1999-2001, splitting her time between the Wadsworth Center Rabies Laboratory and the CDC Rabies Laboratory. She attended Colorado State University as a student in the combined D.V.M, PhD program from which she graduated in 2007. After her postdoctoral program in the Wadsworth Center Arbovirology and Rabies Laboratories, she joined the Rabies Laboratory as the Deputy Director then as the Director in 2016.
April’s scientific interest include rabies pathogenesis, infectious diseases of bats, and developing and improving rabies diagnostic tools. Some current projects include validating a real-time RT- PCR assay for use as a confirmatory test to the dFAT, a real time RT-PCR assay capable of typing different rabies virus variants circulating the United States, and whole genome sequencing.
Susceptibility and pathogenesis of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) to heterologous and homologous rabies viruses.
Journal of virology Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23741002
Rabies virus infection in Eptesicus fuscus bats born in captivity (naïve bats).
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23741396
Mycobiome of the bat white nose syndrome affected caves and mines reveals diversity of fungi and local adaptation by the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus (Geomyces) destructans.
PloS one , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25264864
Antigen detection, rabies virus isolation, and Q-PCR in the quantification of viral load in a natural infection of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis).
Journal of wildlife diseases Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25380356
Comparison of Automated Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR and Direct Fluorescent-Antibody Detection for Routine Rabies Diagnosis in the United States.
Journal of clinical microbiology Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26179300
Rabies direct fluorescent antibody test does not inactivate rabies or eastern equine encephalitis viruses.
Journal of virological methods 08, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27079827
Overwintering of Rabies Virus in Silver Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans).
PloS one , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27195489
Identification of secreted and membrane-bound bat immunoglobulin using a Microchiropteran-specific mouse monoclonal antibody.
Developmental and comparative immunology 12, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27377583
Susceptibility of neuroblastoma cells to rabies virus may be affected by passage number.
Journal of virological methods 09, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28506631
Multi-site evaluation of the LN34 pan-lyssavirus real-time RT-PCR assay for post-mortem rabies diagnostics.
PloS one , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29768505
Clarifying Indeterminate Results on the Rabies Direct Fluorescent Antibody Test Using Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) Jan/Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30508492
Extended incubation period of rabies virus in a captive big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus).
Journal of wildlife diseases Apr, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22493132
The evolution of a bat population with white-nose syndrome (WNS) reveals a shift from an epizootic to an enzootic phase.
Frontiers in zoology , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31827569
Origin of 3 Rabid Terrestrial Animals in Raccoon Rabies Virus-Free Zone, Long Island, New York, USA, 2016-2017.
Emerging infectious diseases Jun, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32441636
Association of the invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis tick with vertebrate hosts, other native tick vectors, and tick-borne pathogens in New York City, USA.
International journal for parasitology Feb, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33130214
Detection of rabies viral neutralizing antibodies in the Puerto Rican .
Infection ecology & epidemiology Oct, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33224448
Phylogenomic Diversity Elucidates Mechanistic Insights into Lyme Borreliae-Host Association.
mSystems Aug, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35938719
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