Charles Fulhorst

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Charles Fulhorst
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Academic Appointments
Appointment Organization
Associate Professor Pathology
Professional Education
Degree Institution Field of Study Graduation Year
Dr.P.H University of California, Berkeley Epidemiology, School of Public Health 1994
M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 1990
D.V.M. University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine 1978
B.S. University of California, Davis (Highest Honors) Animal Science 1976
Honors
Title Organization Year(s)
Research Associate, Museum of Texas Tech University 1999
Warren D. Winkelstein Award in Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 1993
Reeves New Investigator Award, 61st Annual Conference of the California Mosquito and Vector, Control Association, Inc. 1993
Grossman Doctoral Research Award 1992
University Fellowship 1990 - 1991
Phi Zeta Honor Society 1978
Regent’s Scholarship, University of California 1976 - 1978
Professional Affiliations
Society Year(s)
Reviewer, Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 2001
Reviewer, Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 2000
Reviewer, Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998
Reviewer, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1998
Reviewer, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 1997
Member, American Society for Virology 1997
Member, Society for Vector Ecology 1997
Member, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1993
Research Interests

Rodent-Borne Virus Research

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 significance 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.

Selected Publications
  1. Cajimat MNB, FULHORST CF. Phylogeny of the Venezuelan arenaviruses. Virus Res 102:199-206, 2004
  2. Suchecki JR, Ruthven DC III, FULHORST CF, Bradley RD. Natural history of the southern plains woodrat Neotoma micropus (Rodenta: Cricetidae) from southern Texas. Texas J Sci 56:131—140, 2004
  3. FULHORST CF, Cajimat MNB, Utrera A, Milazzo ML, Duno GM. Maporal virus, a hantavirus associated with the fulvous pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys fulvescens) in western Venezuela. Virus Res 104:139-144, 2004
  4. Vado-Solis I, Pérez-Osorio C, Lara-Lara J, Ruiz-Piña HA, Cárdenas-Marrufo M, Milazzo ML, Fulhorst CF, Zaval-Velázquez J. Evidencia serologica de infeccion por Hantavirus en poblacion humana del estado de Yucatán, México. Rev Biomed 14:221-3, 2003
  5. Lele SM, Milazzo ML, Graves K, Aronson J, West AB, FULHORST CF. Pathology of Whitewater Arroyo viral infection in the white-throated woodrat (Neotoma albigula). J Comp Pathol 128:289-92, 2003
  6. Milazzo ML, Eyzaguirre EJ, Molina CP, FULHORST CF. Maporal viral infection in the Syrian golden hamster: a model of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. J Infect Dis 186:1390-5, 2002
  7. FULHORST CF, Milazzo ML, Duno G, Salas RA. Experimental infection of the Sigmodon alstoni cotton rat with Caño Delgadito virus, a South American hantavirus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:107-11, 2002
  8. FULHORST CF, Bennett SG, Milazzo ML, Murray HL, Webb JP Jr, Bradley RD. Bear Canyon virus: an arenavirus naturally associated with Peromyscus californicus (California mouse). Emerg Infect Dis 8:717-20, 2002
  9. Charrel RN, Feldmann H, FULHORST CF, Khelifa R, de Chesse R, de Lamballerie X. Phylogeny of New World arenaviruses based on the complete coding sequences of the small genomic segment identified an evolutionary lineage produced by intra-segmental recombination. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 296:1118-24, 2002
  10. Fritz CL, FULHORST CF, Enge B, Winthrop K, Glaser CA, Vugia DJ. Exposure to rodents and rodent-borne viruses among persons with elevated occupational risk. J Occup Environ Med 44:962-7, 2002
  11. FULHORST CF, Milazzo ML, Carroll DS, Charrel RN, Bradley RD. Natural host relationships and genetic diversity of Whitewater Arroyo virus in southern Texas. Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:114-8, 2002
  12. Calisher CH, Nabity S, Root JJ, FULHORST CF, Beaty BJ. Transmission of an arenavirus in white-throated woodrats (Neotoma albigula) in southeastern Colorado, 1995-1999. Emerg Infect Dis 7:397-402, 2001
  13. Charrel RN, de Lamballerie X, de Micco P, FULHORST CF. Nucleotide sequence of the Pirital virus (family Arenaviridae) small genomic segment. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 280;1402-7, 2001
  14. FULHORST CF, Charrel RN, Weaver SC, Ksiazek TG, Bradley RD, Milazzo ML, Tesh RB, Bowen MD. Geographical range and genetic diversity of Whitewater Arroyo virus (family Arenaviridae) in the southwestern United States. Emerg Infect Dis 7:403-7, 2001
  15. FULHORST CF, Milazzo ML, Bradley RD, Peppers LL. Experimental infection of Neotoma albigula (Muridae) with Whitewater Arroyo virus (Arenaviridae). Am J Trop Med Hyg 65:147-51, 2001
  16. Charrel RN, de Lamballerie X, FULHORST CF. The Whitewater Arroyo virus: natural evidence for genetic recombination among Tacaribe serocomplex viruses (family Arenaviridae). Virology 283:161-6, 2001
  17. Edwards CW, FULHORST CF, Bradley RD. Molecular phylogenetics of the Neotoma albigula species group: further evidence of a paraphyletic assemblage. J Mammal 82:267-79, 2001
  18. Weaver SC, Salas RA, de Manzione N, FULHORST CF, Travasos da Rosa AP, Duno G, Utrera A, Mills JN, Ksiazek TG, Tovar D, Guzman H, Kang W, Tesh RB. Extreme genetic diversity among Pirital virus (Arenaviridae) isolates from western Venezuela. Virology 285:110-8, 2001
  19. Mantooth SJ, Milazzo ML, Bradley RD, Hice CL, Ceballos G, Tesh RB, FULHORST CF. Geographical distribution of rodent-associated hantaviruses in Texas. J Vector Ecol 26:7-14, 2001
  20. Weaver SC, Salas RA, de Manzione N, FULHORST CF, Duno G, Utrera A, Mills JN, Ksiazek TG, Tovar D, Tesh RB. Guanarito virus (Arenaviridae) isolates from endemic and outlying localities in Venezuela: sequence comparisons among and within strains isolated from Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever patients and rodents. Virology 266:189-95, 2000
  21. Bennett SG, Milazzo ML, Webb, Jr. JP, FULHORST CF. Arenavirus antibody in rodents indigenous to coastal southern California. Am J Trop Med Hyg 62:626-30, 2000
  22. Utrera A, Duno G, Ellis BA, Salas RA, de Manzione N, FULHORST CF, Tesh RB, Mills JN. Small mammals in agricultural areas of the western llanos of Venezuela: community structure, habitat associations, and relative densities. J Mammal 81:536-48, 2000
  23. FULHORST CF, Ksiazek TG, Peters CJ, Tesh RB. Experimental infection of the cane mouse Zygodontmys brevicauda (family Muridae) with Guanarito virus (Arenaviridae), the etiologic agent of Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever. J Infect Dis 180:966-9, 1999
  24. FULHORST CF, Bowen MD, Salas RA, Duno G, Utrera A, Ksiazek TG, de Manzione NMC, de Miller E, Vasquez C, Peters CJ, Tesh RB. Natural rodent host associations of Guanarito and Pirital viruses (family Arenaviridae) in central Venezuela. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61:325-30, 1999
  25. Powers AM, Mercer DR, Watts DM, Guzman H, FULHORST, CF, Popov VL, Tesh RB. Isolation and genetic characterization of a hantavirus (Bunyaviridae: Hantavirus) from a rodent, Oligoryzomys microtis (Muridae), collected in northeastern Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61:92-8, 1999
  26. Miranda ME, Ksiazek TG, Retuya TJ, Khan AS, Sanchez A, FULHORST CF, Rollin PE, Calaor AB, Manalo DL, Roces MC, Dayrit MM, Peters CJ. Epidemiology of Ebola (subtype Reston) virus in the Philippines, 1996. J Infect Dis 179 (Suppl 1):S115-9, 1999
  27. de Manzione N, Salas RA, Paredes H, Godoy O, Rojas L, Araoz F, FULHORST CF, Ksiazek TG, Mills JN, Ellis BA, Peters CJ, Tesh RB. Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever: clinical and epidemiological studies of 165 cases. Clin Infect Dis 26:308-13, 1998
  28. FULHORST CF, Bowen MD, Salas RA, de Manzione NMC, Duno G, Utrera A, Ksiazek TG, Peters CJ, Nichol ST, de Miller E, Tovar D, Ramos B, Vasquez C, Tesh RB. Isolation and characterization of Pirital virus, a novel South American arenavirus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 56:548-53, 1997
  29. FULHORST CF, Monroe MC, Salas RA, Duno G, Utrera A, Ksiazek TG, Nichol ST, de Manzione N, Tovar D, Tesh RB. Isolation, characterization and geographic distribution of Caño Delgadito virus, a newly discovered South American hantavirus (family Bunyaviridae). Virus Res 51:159-71, 1997
  30. FULHORST CF, Bowen MD, Ksiazek TG, Rollin PE, Nichol ST, Kosoy MY, Peters CJ. Isolation and characterization of Whitewater Arroyo virus, a novel North American arenavirus. Virology 224:114-20, 1996
  31. FULHORST CF, Bowen MD, Hardy JL, Eldridge BF, Chiles RE, Jackson AO, Reeves WC. Geographic distribution and serologic and genomic characterization of Morro Bay virus, a newly recognized bunyavirus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 54:563-9, 1996
  32. Kosoy MY, Elliott LH, Ksiazek TG, FULHORST CF, Rollin PE, Childs JE, Mills JN, Maupin GO, Peters CJ. Prevalence of antibodies to arenaviruses in rodents from the southern and western United States: evidence for an arenavirus associated with the genus Neotoma. Am J Trop Med Hyg 54:570-6, 1996
  33. FULHORST CF, Hardy JL, Eldridge BF, Chiles RE, Reeves WC. Ecology of Jamestown Canyon virus (Bunyaviridae: California serogroup) in coastal California. Am J Trop Med Hyg 55:185-9, 1996
  34. FULHORST CF, Hardy JL, Eldridge BF, Presser SB, Reeves WC. Natural vertical transmission of western equine encephalomyelitis virus in mosquitoes. Science 263:676-8, 1994
  35. Utrera A, Duno G, Tesh R, Salas R, FULHORST C. Natural reservoirs of Venezuelan haemorrhagic fever: distribution and relative abundance. Revista UNELLEZ de Ciencia y Tecnologia 12:89-90, 1994
  36. FULHORST CF. The geographic distribution of a California encephalitis-like virus (Bunyaviridae) in association with Aedes squamiger. Proc Calif Mosq Vector Control Assoc 61:125-9, 1993
  37. Eldridge BF, Hardy JL, Reeves WC, FULHORST CF, Presser SB, Kramer LD. California serogroup virus studies in California in 1991. Proc Calif Mosq Vector Control Assoc 60:87-9, 1992

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