My research interests have centered around Clinical Virology, the epidemiology of infectious diseases, antiviral chemotherapy and healthcare associated infections. Specifically, I have been interested in St. Louis encephalitis, its clinical manifestations and its epidemiology, the epidemiology of histoplasmosis, the chemotherapy of herpes virus infections, particularly herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus, the potential role of interferon in the treatment of St. Louis encephalitis and the epidemiology of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals. We have investigated an epidemic of necrotizing enterocolitis and have isolated a coronavirus from the stools of infants involved in the epidemic. That isolate is presently being prepared as a virus stock and will eventually be submitted to the ATCC.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Clinical Virology
Epidemiology in Infectious Diseases
Healthcare Associated Infections
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Cerna F., Mehrad B., Luby JP, Burns D., and Fleckenstein JL, "St. Louis encephalitis and the Substantia Nigra: MR Imaging Evaluation" American Journal of Neuroradiology, 20:1281-1283, 1999
Luby JL, Southern PM, Haley CE, Vahle KL, Munford RS, Haley RW, "Recurrent exposure to Histoplasma Capsulatum in Modern Air-Conditioned Buildings" Clinical Infectious Diseases, 41:170-176, 2005
Dansby W, Purdue G, Hunt J, Arnold B, Phillips D, Moody B, Kemp D, Byrd L, Walter P, Luby J, "Aerosolization of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus during an epidemic in a burn intensive care unit" Journal of Burn Care & Research, 29:331-337, 2008
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Luby JP, "Sensitivities of Neurotropic Arboviruses to Human Interferon" J. Infect. Dis., 132:361-367, 1975
Resta S, Luby JP, Rosenfeld CR, Siegel JD, "Isolation and Propagation of a Human Enteric Coronavirus" Science, 229:978-981, 1985
Luby JP, Miller GM, Gardner P, Pigford CA, Henderson BE, Eddins D, "The epidemiology of St. Louis encephalitis in Houston, Texas 1964" American Journal of Epidemiology, 86:584-597, 1967
Southern PM, Smith JW, Luby JP, Barnett JA, Sanford JP, "Clinical and laboratory features of epidemic St. Louis encephalitis" Annals of Internal Medicine, 71:681-698, 1969
Luby JP, Ramirez-Ronda C, Vergne-Marini P, Rinner S, Hull A, "A longitudinal study of varicella zoster virus infections in renal transplant recipients" Journal of Infectious Diseases, 135:659-663, 1977
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