Life History and Demographic Drivers of Reservoir Competence for Three Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogens

Estimating Reservoir Competence ofBorrelia burgdorferiHosts: Prevalence and Infectivity, Sensitivity, and Specificity

(2015) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Prevalence of Human-Active and Variant 1 Strains of the Tick-Borne Pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Hosts and Forests of Eastern North America

(2014) Felicia Keesing et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Co-Infection of Blacklegged Ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi Is Higher than Expected and Acquired from Small Mammal Hosts

(2014) Michelle H. Hersh et al.   PLoS One

CDC Estimates 300 000 US Cases of Lyme Disease Annually

(2013) Bridget M. Kuehn   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

(2013) Zheng Y. X. Huang et al.   PLoS One

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

(2012) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   OIKOS

The economy of inflammation: when is less more?

(2011) Brittany F. Sears et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

(2010) Dana M. Hawley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Wildlife diseases: from individuals to ecosystems

(2010) Daniel M. Tompkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

(2009) F. Keesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disease spread, susceptibility and infection intensity: vicious circles?

(2009) Pablo M. Beldomenico et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

MULTIPLE CAUSES OF VARIABLE TICK BURDENS ON SMALL-MAMMAL HOSTS

(2008) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   ECOLOGY

Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

(2008) Sarah C. L. Knowles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds

(2008) K. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Decomposing health: tolerance and resistance to parasites in animals

(2008) L. Raberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Seasonal changes in vertebrate immune activity: mediation by physiological trade-offs

(2007) L. B Martin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES