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List of works by Maria Diuk-Wasser

Analysis of the intergenic sequences provided by Feria-Arroyo et al. does not support the claim of high Borrelia burgdorferi tick infection rates in Texas and northeastern Mexico

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Association of the invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis tick with vertebrate hosts, other native tick vectors, and tick-borne pathogens in New York City, USA

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Avian Communal Roosts as Amplification Foci for West Nile Virus in Urban Areas in Northeastern United States

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Avian Host-Selection by Culex pipiens in Experimental Trials

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Babesia microti from humans and ticks hold a genomic signature of strong population structure in the United States

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Babesiosis

2015 scientific article

Borrelia burgdorferi promotes the establishment of Babesia microti in the northeastern United States

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Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato seroreactivity and seroprevalence in the northeastern United States

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Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases

scientific article published in 2022

Climate and tick seasonality are predictors of Borrelia burgdorferi genotype distribution

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Closely-related Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu stricto) strains exhibit similar fitness in single infections and asymmetric competition in multiple infections

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Co-occurrence Patterns of the Dengue Vector Aedes aegypti and Aedes mediovitattus, a Dengue Competent Mosquito in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on October 12, 2011

Coinfection by Ixodes Tick-Borne Pathogens: Ecological, Epidemiological, and Clinical Consequences

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Ecologic Factors Associated with West Nile Virus Transmission, Northeastern United States

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Effect of rice cultivation patterns on malaria vector abundance in rice-growing villages in Mali.

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Epidemic spread of Lyme borreliosis, northeastern United States

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Fitness variation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains in mice

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Genotypic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi strains detected in Ixodes scapularis larvae collected from North American songbirds

scientific article published on 22 October 2010

Geographic variation in the relationship between human Lyme disease incidence and density of infected host-seeking Ixodes scapularis nymphs in the Eastern United States

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Host-feeding patterns of potential mosquito vectors in Connecticut, U.S.A.: molecular analysis of bloodmeals from 23 species of Aedes, Anopheles, Culex, Coquillettidia, Psorophora, and Uranotaenia

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Human Social Behavior and Demography Drive Patterns of Fine-Scale Dengue Transmission in Endemic Areas of Colombia

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Human risk of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent, in eastern United States

scientific article published on February 2012

Identification of Novel Viruses in Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis Ticks

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

In Response

Integrated assessment of behavioral and environmental risk factors for Lyme disease infection on Block Island, Rhode Island

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Invasion of two tick-borne diseases across New England: harnessing human surveillance data to capture underlying ecological invasion processes

scientific article published in June 2016

Is vector body size the key to reduced malaria transmission in the irrigated region of Niono, Mali?

scientific article published on September 2006

Lactobacilli and other gastrointestinal microbiota of Peromyscus leucopus, reservoir host for agents of Lyme disease and other zoonoses in North America

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control.

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Modeling the spatial distribution of mosquito vectors for West Nile virus in Connecticut, USA.

scientific article published on January 2006

Monitoring human babesiosis emergence through vector surveillance New England, USA.

scientific article published on February 2014

Niche partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the same tick vector and mammalian reservoir species

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Null expectations for disease dynamics in shrinking habitat: dilution or amplification?

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On the cause and consequences of IgE to galactose-α-1,3-galactose: A report from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Workshop on Understanding IgE-Mediated Mammalian Meat Allergy

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Outer surface protein polymorphisms linked to host-spirochete association in Lyme borreliae

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europe's low countries

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Phylogeography of Borrelia burgdorferi in the eastern United States reflects multiple independent Lyme disease emergence events

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Polymorphic factor H-binding activity of CspA protects Lyme borreliae from the host complement in feeding ticks to facilitate tick-to-host transmission.

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Protective Immunity and New Vaccines for Lyme Disease

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Quantitative PCR for detection of Babesia microti in Ixodes scapularis ticks and in human blood

scientific article published on 09 October 2013

Reconciling the Entomological Hazard and Disease Risk in the Lyme Disease System.

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Regional Variation in Immature Ixodes scapularis Parasitism on North American Songbirds: Implications for Transmission of the Lyme Pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi

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Response to Esteve-Gassent et al.: flaB sequences obtained from Texas PCR products are identical to the positive control strain Borrelia burgdorferi B31.

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Risk factors for human infection with West Nile Virus in Connecticut: a multi-year analysis

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Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Spatial Distribution of Dengue in a Brazilian Urban Slum Setting: Role of Socioeconomic Gradient in Disease Risk

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

The Interactive Roles of Aedes aegypti Super-Production and Human Density in Dengue Transmission

scientific article published on August 28, 2012

Tick-, mosquito-, and rodent-borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network

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Transplacental transmission of tick-borne Babesia microti in its natural host Peromyscus leucopus

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Urban slum structure: integrating socioeconomic and land cover data to model slum evolution in Salvador, Brazil

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Usability and Feasibility of a Smartphone App to Assess Human Behavioral Factors Associated with Tick Exposure (The Tick App): Quantitative and Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Use of molecular scatology to assess the diet of feral cats living in urban colonies

scientific article published in 2021

Vector abundance and malaria transmission in rice-growing villages in Mali.

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Vector host-feeding preferences drive transmission of multi-host pathogens: West Nile virus as a model system

scientific article published on August 17, 2011

Vectors as Epidemiological Sentinels: Patterns of Within-Tick Borrelia burgdorferi Diversity

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West Nile Virus Seroprevalence, Connecticut, USA, 2000-2014

scientific article published on April 2017

Whole genome capture of vector-borne pathogens from mixed DNA samples: a case study of Borrelia burgdorferi

scientific article published on 6 June 2015