Spores and soil from six sides: interdisciplinarity and the environmental biology of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis )

Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research

(2018) Eric R. Dougherty et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pathogen transmission at stage-structured infectious patches: Killers and vaccinators

(2018) Thomas Caraco et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

DUST-BATHING BEHAVIORS OF AFRICAN HERBIVORES AND THE POTENTIAL RISK OF INHALATIONAL ANTHRAX

(2018) Zoe R. Barandongo et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Environmental Suitability of Vibrio Infections in a Warming Climate: An Early Warning System

(2017) Jan C. Semenza et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Anticipating the emergence of infectious diseases

(2017) Tobias S. Brett et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Persistent anthrax as a major driver of wildlife mortality in a tropical rainforest

(2017) Constanze Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Breaking beta: deconstructing the parasite transmission function

(2017) Hamish McCallum et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative Genomics of Bacillus thuringiensis Reveals a Path to Specialized Exploitation of Multiple Invertebrate Hosts

(2017) Jinshui Zheng et al.   mBio

Dose-response relationships for environmentally mediated infectious disease transmission models

(2017) Andrew F. Brouwer et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Low antibody prevalence against Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, indicates high rate of lethal infections in wildlife

(2017) Fee Zimmermann et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Modeling the environmental suitability of anthrax in Ghana and estimating populations at risk: Implications for vaccination and control

(2017) Ian T. Kracalik et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Zebra migration strategies and anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia

(2017) Royi Zidon et al.   Ecosphere

A cross-validation-based approach for delimiting reliable home range estimates

(2017) Eric R. Dougherty et al.   Movement Ecology

The nexus between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks

(2017) Maria Cristina Rulli et al.   Scientific Reports

Sympatric speciation in structureless environments

(2016) Wayne M. Getz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Mathematical Model of Anthrax Transmission in Animal Populations

(2016) C. M. Saad-Roy et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Environmental-mechanistic modelling of the impact of global change on human zoonotic disease emergence: a case study of Lassa fever

(2016) David W. Redding et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Lethal exposure: An integrated approach to pathogen transmission via environmental reservoirs

(2016) Wendy C. Turner et al.   Scientific Reports

“One Health” or Three? Publication Silos Among the One Health Disciplines

(2016) Kezia R. Manlove et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Redefining the Australian Anthrax Belt: Modeling the Ecological Niche and Predicting the Geographic Distribution of Bacillus anthracis

(2016) Alassane S. Barro et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Mapping the Distribution of Anthrax in Mainland China, 2005–2013

(2016) Wan-Jun Chen et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Bacillus cereus Biovar Anthracis Causing Anthrax in Sub-Saharan Africa—Chromosomal Monophyly and Broad Geographic Distribution

(2016) Kym S. Antonation et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

An Ecological Assessment of the Pandemic Threat of Zika Virus

(2016) Colin J. Carlson et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A Unified Framework for the Infection Dynamics of Zoonotic Spillover and Spread

(2016) Giovanni Lo Iacono et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A global map of suitability for coastal Vibrio cholerae under current and future climate conditions

(2015) Luis E. Escobar et al.   ACTA TROPICA

MODELING THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROWTH OF PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME EPIDEMIC

(2015) Hannah T. Reynolds et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Elk resource selection and implications for anthrax management in Montana

(2015) Lillian R. Morris et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

From the bench to modeling – R0 at the interface between empirical and theoretical approaches in epidemiology of environmentally transmitted infectious diseases

(2015) Renata Ivanek et al.   PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

Elucidating the significance of spatial memory on movement decisions by African savannah elephants using state-space models

(2015) L. Polansky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why infectious disease research needs community ecology

(2015) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Reveal Spatial Diversity Among Clones ofYersinia pestisDuring Plague Outbreaks in Colorado and the Western United States

(2015) Jennifer L. Lowell et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Grass Plants Bind, Retain, Uptake, and Transport Infectious Prions

(2015) Sandra Pritzkow et al.   Cell Reports

What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

(2015) Kathleen A. Alexander et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Capsules, Toxins and AtxA as Virulence Factors of Emerging Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis

(2015) Christophe Brézillon et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Interdisciplinarity and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study

(2015) Vanessa O. Ezenwa et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Seasonal Patterns of Hormones, Macroparasites, and Microparasites in Wild African Ungulates: The Interplay among Stress, Reproduction, and Disease

(2015) Carrie A. Cizauskas et al.   PLoS One

Microevolution of Anthrax from a Young Ancestor (M.A.Y.A.) Suggests a Soil-Borne Life Cycle of Bacillus anthracis

(2015) Peter Braun et al.   PLoS One

Frequent and seasonally variable sublethal anthrax infections are accompanied by short-lived immunity in an endemic system

(2014) Carrie A. Cizauskas et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Correction: Pre-Columbian Origins for North American Anthrax

(2014) Leo J. Kenefic et al.   PLoS One

Fatal attraction: vegetation responses to nutrient inputs attract herbivores to infectious anthrax carcass sites

(2014) W. C. Turner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

(2014) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Necrophagous Fly Anthrax Transmission Pathway: Empirical and Genetic Evidence from Wildlife Epizootics

(2014) Jason K. Blackburn et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Interactions between Bacillus anthracis and Plants May Promote Anthrax Transmission

(2014) Holly H. Ganz et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Botulism outbreaks in natural environments – an update

(2014) Mari Espelund et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Gastrointestinal helminths may affect host susceptibility to anthrax through seasonal immune trade-offs

(2014) Carrie A Cizauskas et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants

(2014) Andrew F. Mashintonio et al.   PeerJ

Effects of Experimental Exclusion of Scavengers from Carcasses of Anthrax-Infected Herbivores on Bacillus anthracis Sporulation, Survival, and Distribution

(2013) Steve E. Bellan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Long-term survival of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki in a field trial

(2013) Niels Bohse Hendriksen et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Bacillus thuringiensiscolonises plant roots in a phylogeny-dependent manner

(2013) J. Cristian Vidal-Quist et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The Role of Vibrio cholerae Genotyping in Africa

(2013) Rituparna De et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

BLACK-BACKED JACKAL EXPOSURE TO RABIES VIRUS, CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS, AND BACILLUS ANTHRACIS IN ETOSHA NATIONAL PARK, NAMIBIA

(2013) Steve E. Bellan et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Differentiation of Springtime Vegetation Indices Associated with Summer Anthrax Epizootics in West Texas, USA, Deer

(2013) Jason K. Blackburn et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Ecological Niche Modeling of Bacillus anthracis on Three Continents: Evidence for Genetic-Ecological Divergence?

(2013) Jocelyn C. Mullins et al.   PLoS One

Spatial modelling of Bacillus anthracis ecological niche in Zimbabwe

(2013) S.M. Chikerema et al.   PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

Bacillus subtilis biofilm induction by plant polysaccharides

(2013) P. B. Beauregard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Theory of early warning signals of disease emergenceand leading indicators of elimination

(2013) Suzanne M. O’Regan et al.   Theoretical Ecology

A hierarchical distance sampling approach to estimating mortality rates from opportunistic carcass surveillance data

(2013) Steve E. Bellan et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Soil ingestion, nutrition and the seasonality of anthrax in herbivores of Etosha National Park

(2013) Wendy C. Turner et al.   Ecosphere

Home range plus: a space-time characterization of movement over real landscapes

(2013) Andrew J Lyons et al.   Movement Ecology

Germination and Amplification of Anthrax Spores by Soil-Dwelling Amoebas

(2012) Rafik Dey et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Distribution and Environmental Persistence of the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Geomyces destructans, in Bat Hibernacula of the Eastern United States

(2012) Jeffrey M. Lorch et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biocontrol of tomato wilt disease byBacillus subtilisisolates from natural environments depends on conserved genes mediating biofilm formation

(2012) Yun Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic characterization of the Bacillus cereus sensu lato species: Backdrop to the evolution of Bacillus anthracis

(2012) M. E. Zwick et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The role of the exosporium in the environmental distribution of anthrax

(2012) G. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Naturally acquired antibodies to Bacillus anthracis protective antigen in vultures of southern Africa

(2012) P. C.B. Turnbull et al.   ONDERSTEPOORT JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH

Human genetic variation altering anthrax toxin sensitivity

(2012) M. Martchenko et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distribution and Molecular Evolution of Bacillus anthracis Genotypes in Namibia

(2012) Wolfgang Beyer et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Diversity and structure of soil bacterial communities associated with vultures in an African savanna

(2012) Holly H. Ganz et al.   Ecosphere

Bridging Taxonomic and Disciplinary Divides in Infectious Disease

(2011) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   EcoHealth

The curse of the Pharaoh revisited: evolutionary bi-stability in environmentally transmitted pathogens

(2011) Benjamin Roche et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Multigenic Control and Sex Bias in Host Susceptibility to Spore-Induced Pulmonary Anthrax in Mice

(2011) Jagjit S. Yadav et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Bacillus anthracis: Molecular taxonomy, population genetics, phylogeny and patho-evolution

(2011) Paola Pilo et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Predictability of anthrax infection in the Serengeti, Tanzania

(2011) Katie Hampson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards a conceptual framework to support one-health research for policy on emerging zoonoses

(2011) Richard Coker et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Two capsular polysaccharides enable Bacillus cereus G9241 to cause anthrax-like disease

(2011) So-Young Oh et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Modeling Routes of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission: Environmental Prion Persistence Promotes Deer Population Decline and Extinction

(2011) Emily S. Almberg et al.   PLoS One

Multiple Transmission Pathways and Disease Dynamics in a Waterborne Pathogen Model

(2010) Joseph H. Tien et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Biomass transformation webs provide a unified approach to consumer-resource modelling

(2010) Wayne M. Getz   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Survival and replication of Mycoplasma species in recycled bedding sand and association with mastitis on dairy farms in Utah

(2010) A. Justice-Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Modeling the Potential Distribution of Bacillus anthracis under Multiple Climate Change Scenarios for Kazakhstan

(2010) Timothy Andrew Joyner et al.   PLoS One

The Genome of a Bacillus Isolate Causing Anthrax in Chimpanzees Combines Chromosomal Properties of B. cereus with B. anthracis Virulence Plasmids

(2010) Silke R. Klee et al.   PLoS One

Bacillus thuringiensis: an impotent pathogen?

(2010) Ben Raymond et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Inflammasome Sensor Nlrp1b-Dependent Resistance to Anthrax Is Mediated by Caspase-1, IL-1 Signaling and Neutrophil Recruitment

(2010) Mahtab Moayeri et al.   PLoS Pathogens

What SetsBacillus anthracisApart from OtherBacillusSpecies?

(2009) Anne-Brit Kolstø et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Francisella tularensis Type A Strains Cause the Rapid Encystment of Acanthamoeba castellanii and Survive in Amoebal Cysts for Three Weeks Postinfection

(2009) S. H. El-Etr et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Expression of Nlrp1b Inflammasome Components in Human Fibroblasts Confers Susceptibility to Anthrax Lethal Toxin

(2009) K.-C. Liao et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Cutting Edge: Resistance to Bacillus anthracis Infection Mediated by a Lethal Toxin Sensitive Allele of Nalp1b/Nlrp1b

(2009) Jill K. Terra et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

The ecology of Bacillus anthracis

(2009) Martin Hugh-Jones et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

The Secret Life of the Anthrax Agent Bacillus anthracis: Bacteriophage-Mediated Ecological Adaptations

(2009) Raymond Schuch et al.   PLoS One

Capillary morphogenesis protein-2 is the major receptor mediating lethality of anthrax toxin in vivo

(2009) S. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

(2009) A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Translocation and insecticidal activity ofBacillus thuringiensisliving inside of plants

(2009) Rose Gomes Monnerat et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological drivers of disease emergence

(2008) Raina K Plowright et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Anthrax

(2008) Sean V. Shadomy et al.   JAVMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Interdisciplinary research in the ecology of vector-borne diseases: Opportunities and needs

(2008) Chester G. Moore   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE

Anthrax lethal toxin and Salmonella elicit the common cell death pathway of caspase-1-dependent pyroptosis via distinct mechanisms

(2008) S. L. Fink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plague: Past, Present, and Future

(2008) Nils Chr Stenseth et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Persistence of the emerging pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis outside the amphibian host greatly increases the probability of host extinction

(2007) K. M Mitchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES