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A Regional Climatography of West Nile, Uganda, to Support Human Plague Modeling

scholarly article by Andrew J. Monaghan et al published July 2012 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

A longitudinal study of Bartonella infection in populations of woodrats and their fleas

scientific article published in December 2008

A molecular algorithm to detect and differentiate human pathogens infecting Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published on 10 December 2017

A spatial model of shared risk for plague and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States.

scientific article published on December 2007

A spatially-explicit model of acarological risk of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes pacificus nymphs in northwestern California based on woodland type, temperature, and water vapor

scientific article

Absence of measurable malaria-induced mortality in western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) in nature: a 4-year study of annual and over-winter mortality

scientific article

Adaptive strategies of Yersinia pestis to persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods

scientific article published on 23 September 2008

An Acarologic Survey and Amblyomma americanum Distribution Map with Implications for Tularemia Risk in Missouri ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

An Acarological Risk Model Predicting the Density and Distribution of Host-Seeking Ixodes scapularis Nymphs in Minnesota.

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An Evaluation of Removal Trapping to Control Rodents Inside Homes in a Plague-Endemic Region of Rural Northwestern Uganda.

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Annual seroprevalence of Yersinia pestis in coyotes as predictors of interannual variation in reports of human plague cases in Arizona, United States.

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Assessing human risk of exposure to plague bacteria in northwestern Uganda based on remotely sensed predictors

scientific article

Avian hemosporidian parasites from northern California oak woodland and chaparral habitats

scientific article published in April 2008

Biofilm formation is not required for early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis

scientific article

Blood Meal Identification in Off-Host Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on December 3, 2012

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes in wild birds in northwestern California: associations with ecological factors, bird behavior and tick infestation

scientific article

Changing Socioeconomic Indicators of Human Plague, New Mexico, USA ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Climate and vectorborne diseases

scientific article

Climate change influences on the annual onset of Lyme disease in the United States

scientific article

Climate predictors of the spatial distribution of human plague cases in the West Nile region of Uganda

scientific article published on March 2012

Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data

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Colorado animal-based plague surveillance systems: relationships between targeted animal species and prediction efficacy of areas at risk for humans ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2009

Combining Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Using SYBR Green I Detection and Sequencing to Identify Vertebrate Bloodmeals in Fleas ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Combining mosquito vector and human disease data for improved assessment of spatial West Nile virus disease risk.

scientific article

Comparison of Zoonotic Bacterial Agents in Fleas Collected from Small Mammals or Host-Seeking Fleas from a Ugandan Region Where Plague Is Endemic

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Contact Irritancy and Toxicity of Permethrin-Treated Clothing for Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma americanum, and Dermacentor variabilis Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

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County-Scale Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Critical Evaluation of the Linkage Between Tick-Based Risk Measures and the Occurrence of Lyme Disease Cases

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Demonstration of early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by the mouse flea, Aetheca wagneri (Siphonaptera: Ceratophylidae), and implications for the role of deer mice as enzootic reservoirs

scientific article published on November 2008

Detecting Burrowing Owl Bloodmeals in Pulex irritans (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).

scientific article

Detection of a Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato relapsing-fever group spirochete from Ixodes pacificus in California

scientific article

Detection of eastern equine encephalitis virus antibodies in moose (Alces americana), Maine, 2010.

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Development of a real-time quantitative PCR assay to enumerate Yersinia pestis in fleas

scientific article published on July 2008

Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and their potential role as vectors in a plague-endemic region of Uganda

scientific article published on June 2008

Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) is as efficient as transmission by blocked fleas

scientific article published on July 2007

Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked fleas as a mechanism explaining rapidly spreading plague epizootics.

scientific article

Ecoepidemiology of tularemia in the southcentral United States

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Effects of Temperature on Early-Phase Transmission of Yersina pestis by the Flea, Xenopsylla cheopis ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Effects of temperature on the transmission of Yersinia Pestis by the flea, Xenopsylla Cheopis, in the late phase period ⬇️

scientific article published on September 29, 2011

Efficacy of Indoor Residual Spraying Using Lambda-Cyhalothrin for Controlling Nontarget Vector Fleas (Siphonaptera) on Commensal Rats in a Plague Endemic Region of Northwestern Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Evaluating acarological risk for exposure to Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes scapularis-borne pathogens in recreational and residential settings in Washington County, Minnesota

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Evaluation and modification of off-host flea collection techniques used in northwest Uganda: laboratory and field studies

scientific article published on January 2012

Evaluation of Rodent Bait Containing Imidacloprid for the Control of Fleas on Commensal Rodents in a Plague-Endemic Region of Northwest Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Evaluation of the Infectiousness to Mice of Soil Contaminated with Yersinia pestis-Infected Blood ⬇️

scientific article published on August 27, 2012

Evaluation of the effect of host immune status on short-term Yersinia pestis infection in fleas with implications for the enzootic host model for maintenance of Y. pestis during interepizootic periods

scientific article

Evidence that rodent control strategies ought to be improved to enhance food security and reduce the risk of rodent-borne illnesses within subsistence farming villages in the plague-endemic West Nile region, Uganda

scientific article

Expanding Range of Amblyomma americanum and Simultaneous Changes in the Epidemiology of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in the United States

scientific article

Exposure of small rodents to plague during epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs

scientific article published on July 2008

Flea diversity and infestation prevalence on rodents in a plague-endemic region of Uganda

scientific article published on October 2009

Flea diversity as an element for persistence of plague bacteria in an East African plague focus

scientific article published in 2012

Flea-Associated Bacterial Communities across an Environmental Transect in a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Gametocyte sex ratio of a malaria parasite: experimental test of heritability

scientific article published in June 2002

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

scientific article

Habitat-related variation in infestation of lizards and rodents with Ixodes ticks in dense woodlands in Mendocino County, California

scientific article

Heartland Virus Epidemiology, Vector Association, and Disease Potential

scholarly article by Aaron C. Brault published in September 2018

Host usage and seasonal activity patterns of Ixodes kingi and I. sculptus (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs in a Colorado prairie landscape, with a summary of published North American host records for all life stages.

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Host-Seeking Phenology of Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) Nymphs in Northwestern California in Relation to Calendar Week, Woodland Type, and Weather Conditions

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Human plague in the southwestern United States, 1957-2004: spatial models of elevated risk of human exposure to Yersinia pestis

scientific article published on May 2007

Identification of flea blood meals using multiplexed real-time polymerase chain reaction targeting mitochondrial gene fragments.

scientific article published on June 2009

Identification of risk factors for plague in the West Nile Region of Uganda

scientific article

Identifying suitable habitat for <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> (Acari: Ixodidae) infected with <i>Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae), <i>Babesia microti</i> (Piroplasmida: Babesiidae), and <i>Borrelia miyamotoi</i> (Spirochaet

scientific article published in 2023

Improvement of disease prediction and modeling through the use of meteorological ensembles: human plague in Uganda

scientific article

Indicators for elevated risk of human exposure to host-seeking adults of the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) in Colorado

scientific article published on June 2008

Infection Prevalence, Bacterial Loads, and Transmission Efficiency in Oropsylla montana (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) One Day After Exposure to Varying Concentrations of Yersinia pestis in Blood

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Isolation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia mayonii From Naturally Infected Rodents in Minnesota

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Ketamine-medetomidine anesthesia with atipamezole reversal: practical anesthesia for rodents under field conditions

scientific article

Landscape and Residential Variables Associated with Plague-Endemic Villages in the West Nile Region of Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Life stage-related differences in density of questing ticks and infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato within a single cohort of Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published in July 2004

Linkages of Weather and Climate With Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae), Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme Disease in North America

scientific article

Manipulation of the vertebrate host's testosterone does not affect gametocyte sex ratio of a malaria parasite

scientific article published in February 2003

Meteorological conditions associated with increased incidence of West Nile virus disease in the United States, 2004-2012.

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Meteorological influences on the seasonality of Lyme disease in the United States

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Modeling Climate Suitability of the Western Blacklegged Tick in California

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Modeling the Environmental Suitability for Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Contiguous United States

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Modeling the Geographic Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States

scientific article

Modeling the Present and Future Geographic Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the Continental United States

scientific article

Multiple Francisella tularensis subspecies and clades, tularemia outbreak, Utah

scientific article published on December 2008

Multistate Infestation with the Exotic Disease-Vector Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis - United States, August 2017-September 2018

Multistate Survey of American Dog Ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) for Rickettsia Species

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Need for improved methods to collect and present spatial epidemiologic data for vectorborne diseases

scientific article

Oropsylla hirsuta (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) can support plague epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) by early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis

scientific article published on June 2008

Paired real-time PCR assays for detection of Borrelia miyamotoi in North American Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Persistence of Yersinia pestis in soil under natural conditions

scientific article published on June 2008

Population structure of the lyme borreliosis spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in Northern California

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Predicting density of Ixodes pacificus nymphs in dense woodlands in Mendocino County, California, based on geographic information systems and remote sensing versus field-derived data

scientific article

Predicting spatiotemporal patterns of Lyme disease incidence from passively collected surveillance data for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected Ixodes scapularis ticks

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Predictive spatial models for risk of West Nile virus exposure in eastern and western Colorado

scientific article (publication date: October 2008)

Prevalence and Diversity of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Eastern National Parks

scientific article

Prevalence and Geographic Distribution of Borrelia miyamotoi in Host-Seeking Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) Nymphs in Mendocino County, California

scientific article published on 21 January 2018

Prevalence and distribution of seven human pathogens in host-seeking Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs in Minnesota, USA

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Primary pneumonic plague contracted from a mountain lion carcass

scientific article published on August 2009

Rat Fall Surveillance Coupled with Vector Control and Community Education as a Plague Prevention Strategy in the West Nile Region, Uganda

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Remote sensing (normalized difference vegetation index) classification of risk versus minimal risk habitats for human exposure to Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs in Mendocino County, California

scientific article

Repellent activity of fractioned compounds from Chamaecyparis nootkatensis essential oil against nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published in September 2006

Reported Distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in the United States, 1995-2016 (Diptera: Culicidae)

scientific article

Residence-linked human plague in New Mexico: a habitat-suitability model

scientific article published on July 2007

Response: The Geographic Distribution of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Revisited: The Importance of Assumptions About Error Balance

scientific article published in September 2017

Seasonal fluctuations of small mammal and flea communities in a Ugandan plague focus: evidence to implicate Arvicanthis niloticus and Crocidura spp. as key hosts in Yersinia pestis transmission

scientific article

Serological Evidence for Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Activity in White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, in Vermont, 2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on December 3, 2012

Short report: time course of hematogenous dissemination of Francisella tularensis A1, A2, and Type B in laboratory mice

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Source of host blood affects prevalence of infection and bacterial loads of Yersinia pestis in fleas

scientific article published on September 2008

Spatial distribution of counties in the continental United States with records of occurrence of Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae).

scientific article

Spatial modeling of human risk of exposure to vector-borne pathogens based on epidemiological versus arthropod vector data

scientific article

Spatial patterns of Lyme disease risk in California based on disease incidence data and modeling of vector-tick exposure.

scientific article

Spatial risk assessments based on vector-borne disease epidemiologic data: importance of scale for West Nile virus disease in Colorado

scientific article

Spatial risk models for human plague in the West Nile region of Uganda.

scientific article published on June 2009

Studies of vector competency and efficiency of North American fleas for Yersinia pestis: state of the field and future research needs

scientific article published on July 2009

Temporal dynamics of early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked fleas: secondary infectious feeds prolong efficient transmission by Oropsylla montana (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae).

scientific article published on July 2007

The Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis: An Increasing Public Health Concern

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Subsetting on Culex tarsalis Abundance Models—a Design for Sensible Reduction of Vector Surveillance

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

The Role of Early-Phase Transmission in the Spread of Yersinia pestis

scientific article

The potential role of swift foxes (Vulpes velox) and their fleas in plague outbreaks in prairie dogs

scientific article published on July 2007

The roles of birds, lizards, and rodents as hosts for the western black-legged tick Ixodes pacificus.

scientific article

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

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Tick-Borne Zoonoses in the United States: Persistent and Emerging Threats to Human Health

scientific article

Transmission Dynamics of Francisella tularensis Subspecies and Clades by Nymphal Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Transmission Efficiency of Francisella tularensis by Adult American Dog Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Transmission Shifts Underlie Variability in Population Responses to Yersinia pestis Infection ⬇️

scientific article published on July 25, 2011

Transmission cycles of Borrelia burgdorferi and B. bissettii in relation to habitat type in northwestern California

scientific article

Transmission dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi s.s. during the key third day of feeding by nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published in July 2008

Transmission efficiency of two flea species (Oropsylla tuberculata cynomuris and Oropsylla hirsuta) involved in plague epizootics among prairie dogs

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Transmission of Flea-Borne Zoonotic Agents ⬇️

scientific article published on August 29, 2011

Two Distinct Yersinia pestis Populations Causing Plague among Humans in the West Nile Region of Uganda

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Updated Reported Distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the United States, 1995-2016.

scientific article published on September 2017

Use of Insecticide Delivery Tubes for Controlling Rodent-Associated Fleas in a Plague Endemic Region of West Nile, Uganda

scientific article

Using Wild White-Tailed Deer to Detect Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Activity in Maine ⬇️

scientific article published on July 7, 2011

Using geographic information systems and decision support systems for the prediction, prevention, and control of vector-borne diseases

scientific article published on January 2011

Western gray squirrel (Rodentia: Sciuridae): a primary reservoir host of Borrelia burgdorferi in Californian oak woodlands?

scientific article published in May 2005

What Do We Need to Know About Disease Ecology to Prevent Lyme Disease in the Northeastern United States?: Table 1 ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

What is the Risk for Exposure to Vector-Borne Pathogens in United States National Parks? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Yersinia murine toxin is not required for early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by Oropsylla montana (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) or Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).

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