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Gardner AM, Pawlikowski NC, Hamer SA, Hickling GJ, Miller JR, Schotthoefer AM, Tsao JI, Allan BF. Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease. Proc Biol Sci. 2020 Dec 23;287(1941):20202278. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2278. Epub 2020 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 33352074; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7779494.
Schotthoefer A, Stinebaugh K, Martin M, Munoz-Zanzi C. Tickborne disease awareness and protective practices among U.S. Forest Service employees from the upper Midwest, USA. BMC Public Health. 2020 Oct 20;20(1):1575. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09629-x. PubMed PMID: 33081728; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7574197.
Rau A, Munoz-Zanzi C, Schotthoefer AM, Oliver JD, Berman JD. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Tick-Borne Diseases in North-Central Wisconsin from 2000-2016. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 15;17(14). doi: 10.3390/ijerph17145105. PubMed PMID: 32679849; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7400118.
Horn EJ, Dempsey G, Schotthoefer AM, Prisco UL, McArdle M, Gervasi SS, Golightly M, De Luca C, Evans M, Pritt BS, Theel ES, Iyer R, Liveris D, Wang G, Goldstein D, Schwartz I. The Lyme Disease Biobank: Characterization of 550 Patient and Control Samples from the East Coast and Upper Midwest of the United States. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 May 26;58(6). doi: 10.1128/JCM.00032-20. Print 2020 May 26. PubMed PMID: 32102853; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7269379.
Schotthoefer AM, Hall MC, Vittala S, Bajwa R, Frost HM. Clinical Presentation and Outcomes of Children With Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2018 May 15;7(2):e9-e15. doi: 10.1093/jpids/pix029. PubMed PMID: 28520981.
Thomm AM, Schotthoefer AM, Dupuis AP 2nd, Kramer LD, Frost HM, Fritsche TR, Harrington YA, Knox KK, Kehl SC. Development and Validation of a Serologic Test Panel for Detection of Powassan Virus Infection in U.S. Patients Residing in Regions Where Lyme Disease Is Endemic. mSphere. 2018 Jan-Feb;3(1). doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00467-17. eCollection 2018 Jan-Feb. PubMed PMID: 29359181; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5760746.
Mareedu N, Schotthoefer AM, Tompkins J, Hall MC, Fritsche TR, Frost HM. Risk Factors for Severe Infection, Hospitalization, and Prolonged Antimicrobial Therapy in Patients with Babesiosis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Oct;97(4):1218-1225. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0146. Epub 2017 Jul 19. PubMed PMID: 28722598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5637605.
Frost HM, Schotthoefer AM, Thomm AM, Dupuis AP 2nd, Kehl SC, Kramer LD, Fritsche TR, Harrington YA, Knox KK. Serologic Evidence of Powassan Virus Infection in Patients with Suspected Lyme Disease(1). Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Aug;23(8):1384-1388. doi: 10.3201/eid2308.161971. PubMed PMID: 28726610; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5547799.
Snyder JL, Giese H, Bandoski-Gralinski C, Townsend J, Jacobson BE, Shivers R, Schotthoefer AM, Fritsche TR, Green C, Callister SM, Branda JA, Lowery TJ. T2 Magnetic Resonance Assay-Based Direct Detection of Three Lyme Disease-Related Borrelia Species in Whole-Blood Samples. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Aug;55(8):2453-2461. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00510-17. Epub 2017 May 31. PubMed PMID: 28566314; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5527424.
Schotthoefer AM, Schrodi SJ, Meece JK, Fritsche TR, Shukla SK. Pro-inflammatory immune responses are associated with clinical signs and symptoms of human anaplasmosis. PLoS One. 2017;12(6):e0179655. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179655. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28628633; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5476275.
Levin AE, Williamson PC, Bloch EM, Clifford J, Cyrus S, Shaz BH, Kessler D, Gorlin J, Erwin JL, Krueger NX, Williams GV, Penezina O, Telford SR 4th, Branda JA, Krause PJ, Wormser GP, Schotthoefer AM, Fritsche TR, Busch MP. Serologic screening of United States blood donors for Babesia microti using an investigational enzyme immunoassay. Transfusion. 2016 Jul;56(7):1866-74. doi: 10.1111/trf.13618. Epub 2016 May 25. PubMed PMID: 27224258; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6007971.
Schotthoefer AM, Frost HM. Ecology and Epidemiology of Lyme Borreliosis. Clin Lab Med. 2015 Dec;35(4):723-43. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2015.08.003. Epub 2015 Sep 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 26593254.
Rohr JR, Civitello DJ, Crumrine PW, Halstead NT, Miller AD, Schotthoefer AM, Stenoien C, Johnson LB, Beasley VR. Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 10;112(10):3008-13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415971112. Epub 2015 Feb 23. PubMed PMID: 25713379; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4364228.
Schotthoefer AM, Meece JK, Fritsche TR. A clinical, diagnostic, and ecologic perspective on human anaplasmosis in the Upper Midwest. WMJ. 2014 Jun;113(3):107-14; quiz 115. PubMed PMID: 25118439.
Schotthoefer AM, Meece JK, Ivacic LC, Bertz PD, Zhang K, Weiler T, Uphoff TS, Fritsche TR. Comparison of a real-time PCR method with serology and blood smear analysis for diagnosis of human anaplasmosis: importance of infection time course for optimal test utilization. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Jul;51(7):2147-53. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00347-13. Epub 2013 May 1. PubMed PMID: 23637292; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3697711.
Williams SK, Schotthoefer AM, Montenieri JA, Holmes JL, Vetter SM, Gage KL, Bearden SW. Effects of low-temperature flea maintenance on the transmission of Yersinia pestis by Oropsylla montana. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2013 Jul;13(7):468-78. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1017. Epub 2013 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 23590319.
Schotthoefer AM, Eisen RJ, Kugeler KJ, Ettestad P, Reynolds PJ, Brown T, Enscore RE, Cheek J, Bueno R Jr, Targhetta J, Montenieri JA, Gage KL. Changing socioeconomic indicators of human plague, New Mexico, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jul;18(7):1151-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1807.120121. PubMed PMID: 22709463; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3376811.
Schotthoefer AM, Bearden SW, Holmes JL, Vetter SM, Montenieri JA, Williams SK, Graham CB, Woods ME, Eisen RJ, Gage KL. Effects of temperature on the transmission of Yersinia Pestis by the flea, Xenopsylla Cheopis, in the late phase period. Parasit Vectors. 2011 Sep 29;4:191. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-191. PubMed PMID: 21958555; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3195756.
Schotthoefer AM, Rohr JR, Cole RA, Koehler AV, Johnson CM, Johnson LB, Beasley VR. Effects of wetland vs. landscape variables on parasite communities of Rana pipiens: links to anthropogenic factors. Ecol Appl. 2011 Jun;21(4):1257-71. doi: 10.1890/10-0374.1. PubMed PMID: 21774428.
Schotthoefer AM, Bearden SW, Vetter SM, Holmes J, Montenieri JA, Graham CB, Woods ME, Eisen RJ, Gage KL. Effects of temperature on early-phase transmission of Yersina pestis by the flea, Xenopsylla cheopis. J Med Entomol. 2011 Mar;48(2):411-7. doi: 10.1603/me10155. PubMed PMID: 21485382.
Vetter SM, Eisen RJ, Schotthoefer AM, Montenieri JA, Holmes JL, Bobrov AG, Bearden SW, Perry RD, Gage KL. Biofilm formation is not required for early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis. Microbiology (Reading). 2010 Jul;156(Pt 7):2216-2225. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.037952-0. Epub 2010 Apr 15. PubMed PMID: 20395271; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3068684.
Church C, Neill A, Schotthoefer AM. Intestinal infections in humans in the Rocky Mountain region, United States. J Parasitol. 2010 Feb;96(1):194-6. doi: 10.1645/GE-2229. PubMed PMID: 19807196.
Girard YA, Travinsky B, Schotthoefer A, Fedorova N, Eisen RJ, Eisen L, Barbour AG, Lane RS. Population structure of the lyme borreliosis spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in Northern California. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Nov;75(22):7243-52. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01704-09. Epub 2009 Sep 25. PubMed PMID: 19783741; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2786521.
Lowell JL, Eisen RJ, Schotthoefer AM, Xiaocheng L, Montenieri JA, Tanda D, Pape J, Schriefer ME, Antolin MF, Gage KL. Colorado animal-based plague surveillance systems: relationships between targeted animal species and prediction efficacy of areas at risk for humans. J Vector Ecol. 2009 Jun;34(1):22-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2009.00004.x. PubMed PMID: 20836802.
Schotthoefer AM, Bolek MG, Cole RA, Beasley VR. Parasites of the mink frog (Rana septentrionalis) from Minnesota. Comparative parasitology. 2009; 76:240-246.
Eisen RJ, Holmes JL, Schotthoefer AM, Vetter SM, Montenieri JA, Gage KL. 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. J Med Entomol. 2008 Nov;45(6):1160-4. doi: 10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[1160:doetoy]2.0.co;2. PubMed PMID: 19058643.
Rohr JR, Schotthoefer AM, Raffel TR, Carrick HJ, Halstead N, Hoverman JT, Johnson CM, Johnson LB, Lieske C, Piwoni MD, Schoff PK, Beasley VR. Agrochemicals increase trematode infections in a declining amphibian species. Nature. 2008 Oct 30;455(7217):1235-9. doi: 10.1038/nature07281. PubMed PMID: 18972018.
Hamer GL, Walker ED, Brawn JD, Loss SR, Ruiz MO, Goldberg TL, Schotthoefer AM, Brown WM, Wheeler E, Kitron UD. Rapid amplification of West Nile virus: the role of hatch-year birds. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2008 Spring;8(1):57-67. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0123. PubMed PMID: 18237262.
Schotthoefer AM, Labak KM, Beasley VR. Ribeiroia ondatrae cercariae are consumed by aquatic invertebrate predators. J Parasitol. 2007 Oct;93(5):1240-3. doi: 10.1645/GE1129R.1. PubMed PMID: 18163369.
Beasley VR, Faeh SA, Wikoff B, Eisold J, Nichols D, Cole R, Schotthoefer AM, Greenwell M, Brown LE. Risk factors and the decline in Northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans). In: Lannoo MJ, editor. Amphibian declines: the conservation status of United States species Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press; 2005. 75-86p.
Schoff PK, Johnson CM, Schotthoefer AM, Murphy JE, Lieske C, Cole RA, Johnson LB, Beasley VR. Prevalence of skeletal and eye malformations in frogs from north-central United States: estimations based on collections from randomly selected sites. J Wildl Dis. 2003 Jul;39(3):510-21. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-39.3.510. PubMed PMID: 14567211.
Schotthoefer AM, Cole RA, Beasley VR. Relationship of tadpole stage to location of echinostome cercariae encystment and the consequences for tadpole survival. J Parasitol. 2003 Jun;89(3):475-82. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0475:ROTSTL]2.0.CO;2. PubMed PMID: 12880244.
Schotthoefer AM, Koehler AV, Meteyer CU, Cole RA. Influence of Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda: Digenea) infections on limb development and survival of Northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens): effects of host-stage and parasite exposure level. Canadian journal of zoology. 2003; 81:1144-1153.
Ford SE, Schotthoefer A, Spruck C. In vivo dynamics of the microparasite Perkinsus marinus during progression and regression of infections in eastern oysters. J Parasitol. 1999 Apr;85(2):273-82. PubMed PMID: 10219308.
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