A quantitative synthesis of the role of birds in carrying ticks and tick-borne pathogens in North America

Tick-borne infectious agents in nature: Simulated effects of changes in host density on spatial-temporal prevalence of infected ticks

(2016) Hsiao-Hsuan Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Avian Migrants Facilitate Invasions of Neotropical Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens into the United States

(2015) Emily B. Cohen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of DNA and Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope-based Techniques for Identification of Prior Vertebrate Hosts of Ticks

(2015) Sarah A. Hamer et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Spirochetes in Wild Birds in Northwestern California: Associations with Ecological Factors, Bird Behavior and Tick Infestation

(2015) Erica A. Newman et al.   PLoS One

Disease Risk in a Dynamic Environment: The Spread of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Minnesota, USA

(2014) Stacie J. Robinson et al.   EcoHealth

Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration

(2014) Sarah C. Schneider et al.   EcoHealth

History and complexity in tick-host dynamics: discrepancies between ‘real’ and ‘visible’ tick populations

(2014) Andrew D M Dobson   Parasites & Vectors

Surveillance for Ixodes pacificus and the tick-borne pathogens Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in birds from California's Inner Coast Range

(2014) Regina J. Dingler et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

The ecology of tick-borne diseases

(2013) Miriam Pfäffle et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Synanthropic Birds Associated with High Prevalence of Tick-Borne Rickettsiae and with the First Detection of Rickettsia aeschlimannii in Hungary

(2013) Sándor Hornok et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Importation of exotic ticks and tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiae into the United States by migrating songbirds

(2013) Nabanita Mukherjee et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Transport of ixodid ticks and tick-borne pathogens by migratory birds

(2013) Gunnar Hasle   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Simulation of climate–host–parasite–landscape interactions: A spatially explicit model for ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

(2012) Hsiao-Hsuan Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Widespread Dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi–Infected Ticks Collected from Songbirds Across Canada

(2012) John D. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

A New Phlebovirus Associated with Severe Febrile Illness in Missouri

(2012) Laura K. McMullan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U.S.A.

(2012) Sarah A Hamer et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Rickettsiae of spotted fever group, Borrelia valaisiana, and Coxiella burnetii in ticks on passerine birds and mammals from the Camargue in the south of France

(2012) Cristina Socolovschi et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Increasing Incidence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the United States, 2000–2007

(2011) F. Scott Dahlgren et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

DiverseBorrelia burgdorferiStrains in a Bird-Tick Cryptic Cycle

(2011) Sarah A. Hamer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) R. Jory Brinkerhoff et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Strain diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks dispersed in North America by migratory birds

(2011) Amy Mathers et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

Animal Migration and Infectious Disease Risk

(2011) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the United States, 2000–2007: Interpreting Contemporary Increases in Incidence

(2010) John J. Openshaw et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Invasion of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis: Implications for Borrelia burgdorferi Endemicity

(2010) Sarah A. Hamer et al.   EcoHealth

Seeking a second opinion: uncertainty in disease ecology

(2010) Brett T. McClintock et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host migration impacts on the phylogeography of Lyme Borreliosis spirochaete species in Europe

(2010) Stephanie A. Vollmer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Potential spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 by wildfowl: dispersal ranges and rates determined from large-scale satellite telemetry

(2010) Nicolas Gaidet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Highly Variable Acquisition Rates of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by Birds on an Atlantic Barrier Island

(2010) S. S. Mitra et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

High-Prevalence Borrelia miyamotoi Infection Among Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in Tennessee

(2010) M. C. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Dissemination of Spotted Fever Rickettsia Agents in Europe by Migrating Birds

(2010) Karin Elfving et al.   PLoS One

Emerging Infectious Disease Leads to Rapid Population Declines of Common British Birds

(2010) Robert A. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Do birds affect Lyme disease risk? Range expansion of the vector-borne pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi

(2009) R Jory Brinkerhoff et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Differential Role of Passerine Birds in Distribution of Borrelia Spirochetes, Based on Data from Ticks Collected from Birds during the Postbreeding Migration Period in Central Europe

(2008) L. Dubska et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada

(2008) N. H. Ogden et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid Amplification of West Nile Virus: The Role of Hatch-Year Birds

(2008) Gabriel L. Hamer et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES