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Charles Fulhorst, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor
efulhors@utmb.edu
Keiller, Route 0609
Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Phone: (409)772-9713
Fax: (409)747-2400

Education:	Ph.D. | 1994 | University of California, Berkeley, CA
	M.P.H. | 1990 | University of California, Berkeley, CA
	D.V.M. | 1978 | University of California, Davis, CA
	B.S. | 1976 | University of California, Davis, CA

Overview

Epidemiology, ecology, and pathogenesis of rodent-borne viral zoonoses.

Research Interests

Research in the Rodent-borne Virus Research Laboratory is focused on viruses that are naturally associated with rodents, bats and other small mammals and that cause severe disease in human beings. These viruses include members of the family Arenaviridae (agents of viral hemorrhagic fever and acute central nervous system disease) and members of the family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus (agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome). The laboratory’s present research objectives are to (1) extend our knowledge of the geographical range, ecology, and human health signi? cance of arenaviruses and hantaviruses in the Americas, (2) elucidate the pathogenesis of infection and disease in laboratory animal models of the human diseases caused by New World arenaviruses and hantaviruses and (3) develop safe, efficacious therapies for the hemorrhagic fevers caused by South American arenaviruses.

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