Erol Fikrig MD

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Section Chief, Infectious Diseases

Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology: Computational Immunology | Microbiology

Yale Medical Group

Global Health Initiative

Microbial Pathogenesis

School of Public Health: Parasitology Program

Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale

Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases

Molecular Virology

Research Interests

Vector-borne diseases; Lyme disease; Human granulocytic ehrilichiosis; West Nile virus more...

Education

• BA, Cornell University, 1981
• M.D., Cornell University, 1985

Selected Publications

• Silver, A.C., A. Arjona, W.E. Walker, and E. Fikrig. 2012. The circadian clock controls toll-like receptor 9-mediated innate and adaptive immunity. Immunity 36:251-261. 3315694
• Schuijt, T.J., J. Coumou, S. Narasimhan, J. Dai, K. Deponte, D. Wouters, M. Brouwer, A. Oei, J.J. Roelofs, A.P. van Dam, T. van der Poll, C. Van't Veer, J.W. Hovius, and E. Fikrig. 2011. A tick mannose-binding lectin inhibitor interferes with the vertebrate complement cascade to enhance transmission of the lyme disease agent. Cell Host Microbe 10:136-146. 3170916
• Cheng, G., J. Cox, P. Wang, M.N. Krishnan, J. Dai, F. Qian, J.F. Anderson, and E. Fikrig. 2010. A C-type lectin collaborates with a CD45 phosphatase homolog to facilitate West Nile virus infection of mosquitoes. Cell 142:714-725. 2954371

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