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Senior Research Scientist
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Michael Matthias, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Research Expertise
Leptospirosis
Leptospira pathogenesis
Microbial Ecology
Evolution
Microbiology
Infectious Diseases
Virology
Parasitology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Microbiology (medical)
Immunology
Molecular Biology
Immunology and Allergy
Cancer Research
Oncology
Genetics
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Publications
Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of
global importance
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
2003
Fecal Markers of Intestinal Inflammation
and Permeability Associated with the
Subsequent Acquisition of Linear Growth
Deficits in Infants
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2013
What Makes a Bacterial Species
Pathogenic?:Comparative Genomic Analysis
of the Genus Leptospira
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2016
Clinical Spectrum of Pulmonary Involvement
in Leptospirosis in a Region of
Endemicity, with Quantification of
Leptospiral Burden
Clinical Infectious Diseases
2005
Determining Risk for Severe Leptospirosis
by Molecular Analysis of Environmental
Surface Waters for Pathogenic Leptospira
PLoS Medicine
2006
Human Leptospirosis Caused by a New,
Antigenically Unique Leptospira Associated
with a Rattus Species Reservoir in the
Peruvian Amazon
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2008
Asymptomatic Renal Colonization of Humans
in the Peruvian Amazon by Leptospira
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2010
Toll-Like Receptor 4 Protects against
LethalLeptospira interrogansSerovar
Icterohaemorrhagiae Infection and
Contributes to In Vivo Control of
Leptospiral Burden
Infection and Immunity
2006
Utility of Quantitative Polymerase Chain
Reaction in Leptospirosis Diagnosis:
Association of Level of Leptospiremia and
Clinical Manifestations in Sri Lanka
Clinical Infectious Diseases
2012
Leptospiral Pathogenomics
Pathogens
2014
DIVERSITY OF BAT-ASSOCIATED LEPTOSPIRA IN
THE PERUVIAN AMAZON INFERRED BY BAYESIAN
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF 16S RIBOSOMAL DNA
SEQUENCES
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2005
Leptospira interrogansActivation of
Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells:
Preferential Expansion of TCRγδ+ T Cells
vs TCRαβ+ T Cells
The Journal of Immunology
2003
Whole Genome Analysis of Leptospira
licerasiae Provides Insight into
Leptospiral Evolution and Pathogenicity
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012
Real-Time PCR Reveals Rapid Dissemination
of Leptospira interrogans after
Intraperitoneal and Conjunctival
Inoculation of Hamsters
Infection and Immunity
2016
Regional Differences of Leptospirosis in
Sri Lanka: Observations from a
Flood-Associated Outbreak in 2011
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2014
Keloids: Current Therapies in Barbados
West Indian Medical Journal
2016
Pathogenomic Inference of
Virulence-Associated Genes in Leptospira
interrogans
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2013
Comparative analysis of
lipopolysaccharides of pathogenic and
intermediately pathogenic Leptospira
species
BMC Microbiology
2015
Utility and Limitations of Direct
Multi-Locus Sequence Typing on
qPCR-Positive Blood to Determine Infecting
Leptospira Strain
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2013
Effect of myeloid differentiation primary
response gene 88 on expression profiles of
genes during the development and
progression of Helicobacter-induced
gastric cancer
BMC Cancer
2017
Proteomic Analysis of Urine Exosomes
Reveals Renal Tubule Response to
Leptospiral Colonization in Experimentally
Infected Rats
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015
Expression of sialic acids and other
nonulosonic acids in Leptospira
BMC Microbiology
2012
12 Novel clonal groups of Leptospira
infecting humans in multiple contrasting
epidemiological contexts in Sri Lanka
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2021
A Foodborne Outbreak of Brucellosis at a
Police Station Cafeteria, Lima, Peru
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2013
High Degree of Plasmodium vivax Diversity
in the Peruvian Amazon Demonstrated by
Tandem Repeat Polymorphism Analysis
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2012
Optimizing the microscopic agglutination
test (MAT) panel for the diagnosis of
Leptospirosis in a low resource,
hyper-endemic setting with varied
microgeographic variation in reactivity
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2021
Current trends in translational research
in leptospirosis
Current Opinion in Infectious
Diseases
2013
Suburban Leptospirosis: Atypical
Lymphocytosis and - T Cell
Response
Clinical Infectious Diseases
2006
Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing Shows
Selection on Leptospira Regulatory
Proteins During in vitro Culture
Attenuation
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2016
Diagnostic method-based underestimation of
leptospirosis in clinical and research
settings; an experience from a large
prospective study in a high endemic
setting
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2022
Pathogenic Leptospira Evolved a Unique
Gene Family Comprised of Ricin B-Like
Lectin Domain-Containing Cytotoxins
Frontiers in Microbiology
2022
Complete Genome Sequence of
Leptospira interrogans Strains
FMAS_KW1, FMAS_KW2 and FMAS_AW1 Isolated
from Leptospirosis Patients from
Karawanalla and Awissawella, Sri Lanka
Journal of Genomics
2020
Serological and molecular epidemiology of
leptospirosis and the role of dogs as
sentinel for human infection in Nigeria
Heliyon
2022
Culture-Independent Detection and
Identification of
Leptospira Serovars
Unknown Venue
2022
Complete genome sequences of twelve
strains of Leptospira interrogans isolated
from humans in Sri Lanka
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
2023
Demographic, exposure, clinical,
biochemical and diagnostic data of febrile
patients recruited for the largest field
study on leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
Data in Brief
2022
Experimental Infection of Rattus
norvegicus by the Group II Intermediate
Pathogen, Leptospira licerasiae
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2018
Correction: Proteomic Analysis of Urine
Exosomes Reveals Renal Tubule Response to
Leptospiral Colonization in Experimentally
Infected Rats
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015
Clinical spectrum of endemic leptospirosis
in relation to cytokine response
PLOS ONE
2021
Differentiation of Leptospira species and
serovars by PCR-restriction endonuclease
analysis, arbitrarily primed PCR and
low-stringency PCR
Journal of Medical Microbiology
1997
Whole genome sequencing data of Leptospira
weilii and Leptospira kirschneri isolated
from human subjects of Sri Lanka
Data in Brief
2024
Novel R-type Lectin Domain-Containing
Cytotoxins Comprise a Family of
Virulence-Modifying Proteins in
PathogenicLeptospira
Unknown Venue
2020
Clinical Case Report of Suspected
Fulminating Leptospirosis In A 4‐Months
Old Caucasian Dog And Molecular Detection
of Pathogenic Leptospira In Canine
In Northwestern Nigeria: Public Health
Significance And Ramifications
The FASEB Journal
2018
A High Resolution Melting Point Analysis
Based Simplex PCR Assay Enables Reliable
Identification of Clinically Relevant
Candida Species
Unknown Venue
2018
Microgeographical Differences of
Plasmodium vivax Relapse and Re-Infection
in the Peruvian Amazon
The American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene
2013
Quantification of Pathogenic
Leptospira in Surface Waters
Explains Urban Predominance of Severe
Human Leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon
Journal of Investigative Medicine
2006
Correction: Correction: Proteomic Analysis
of Urine Exosomes Reveals Renal Tubule
Response to Leptospiral Colonization in
Experimentally Infected Rats
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015
Albendazole versus Praziquantel in the
Treatment of Neurocysticercosis: A
Meta-analysis of Comparative Trials
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2008
Education
University of the West Indies
PhD, Biomedical Sciences / May, 2003
Cave Hill
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