Ignacio Mena

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus causes attenuated disease in mice and hamsters

Peter Halfmann, Shun Iida, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto et al. · Nature · 2022 · 698 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Veterinary Microbiology +14

SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 hijacks Nup98 to block STAT nuclear import and antagonize interferon signaling

Lisa Miorin, Thomas Kehrer, María Teresa Sánchez-Aparicio et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 568 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Molecular Biology +17

Origins of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in swine in Mexico

Ignacio Mena, Martha I. Nelson, Francisco Quezada-Monroy et al. · eLife · 2016 · 374 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Comparative Genomics +16

A novel Zika virus mouse model reveals strain specific differences in virus pathogenesis and host inflammatory immune responses

Shashank Tripathi, Vinod Balasubramaniam, Julia A. Brown et al. · PLoS Pathogens · 2017 · 234 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Neurology +17

Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern link to increased spike cleavage and virus transmission

Alba Escalera, Ana S. Gonzalez‐Reiche, Sadaf Aslam et al. · Cell Host & Microbe · 2022 · 197 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Infectious Diseases +13