Publications:

  • Rowlands, R. J., Duarte, M. M., Boinas, F., Hutchings G. and Dixon, LK.. (2009) The CD2v protein enhances African swine fever virus replication in the tick vector, Ornithodoros erraticus. Virology 393: 319-328 [Abstract]. 
  • Costard, S; Wieland, B; de Glanville, W, et al. (2009) African swine fever: how can global spread be prevented? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 2683-2696 [Abstract]. 
  • Rowlands, R. J.; Michaud, V.; Heath, L., et al. (2008) African swine fever virus isolate, Georgia, 2007. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14: 1870-1874 DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080591 [Abstract]. 
  • Chapman, DAG; Tcherepanov, V; Upton, C, and Dixon, L.K. (2008) Comparison of the genome sequences of nonpathogenic and pathogenic African swine fever virus isolates. J. Gen. Virol. 89: 397-408 [Abstract]. 
  • Abrams, CC; Chapman, DAG; Silk, R, Liverani, E., Dixon, L.K. (2008) Domains involved in calcineurin phosphatase inhibition and nuclear localisation in the African swine fever virus A238L protein. Virology 374: 477-486 [Abstract]. 
  • R.N. Silk, G. C. Bowick, C. C. Abrams, L. K. Dixon (2007) African swine fever virus A238L inhibitor of NF-kappaB and of calcineurin phosphatase is imported actively into the nucleus and exported by a CRM1-mediated pathway. J Gen Virol. 88(Pt 2):411-9. [Abstract]. 
  • Rivera J, Abrams C, Hernaez B, Alcazar A, Escribano JM, Dixon L, Alonso C (2007) The MyD116 African Swine Fever Virus Homologue Interacts with the Catalytic Subunit of Protein Phosphatase 1 and Activates Its Phosphatase Activity. J Virol. 81(6):2923-9. [Abstract]. 
  • Zhang F, Hopwood P, Abrams CC, Downing A, Murray F, Talbot R, Archibald A, Lowden S, Dixon LK (2007) Macrophage transcriptional responses following in vitro infection with a highly virulent African swine fever virus isolate. J Virol. 80(21):10514-21. [Full text]. 
  • Nix RJ, Gallardo C, Hutchings G, Blanco E, Dixon LK (2006) Molecular epidemiology of African swine fever virus studied by analysis of four variable genome regions. Arch Virol. 151(12):2475-94 [Abstract]. 
  • Basto AP, Nix RJ, Boinas F, Mendes S, Silva MJ, Cartaxeiro C, Portugal RS, Leitao A, Dixon LK, Martins C. (2006) Kinetics of African swine fever virus infection in Ornithodoros erraticus ticks. J Gen Virol. 87:1863-71. [Abstract]. 
  • Dixon, L.K., Escribano, J.M., Martins, C., Rock, D.L., Salas, M.L. and Wilkinson, P.J. (2005). Asfarviridae. In: Virus Taxonomy, VIIIth Report of the ICTV (C.M. Fauquet, M.A. Mayo, J. Maniloff, U. Desselberger, and L.A. Ball, eds), 135-143. Elsevier/Academic Press, London.
  • Goatley LC, Marron MB, Jacobs SC, Hammond JM, Miskin JE, Abrams CC, Smith GL, Dixon LK. (2004) Nuclear and nucleolar localization of an African swine fever virus protein, I14L, that is similar to the herpes simplex virus-encoded virulence factor ICP34.5. J Gen Virol 85 :119-130 [Abstract].