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Overview

A. Marm Kilpatrick is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases within the field of medicine, with significant contributions in the study of viral infections, bat biology and ecology, and epidemiological aspects of COVID-19.

Their recent publications include the following papers: Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats (2021) in Nature Reviews Microbiology; The timing of COVID-19 transmission (2020) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory); Environmental reservoir dynamics predict global infection patterns and population impacts for the fungal disease white-nose syndrome (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; and Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies (2020) published in Ecology Letters.

Kilpatrick's research spans several subfields, including infectious diseases, ecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as modeling and simulation. Their work covers core topics such as viral infections and vectors, bat biology and ecology studies, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, mosquito-borne diseases and control, research on Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and bird parasitology and diseases.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kilpatrick include Joseph R. Hoyt, Kate E. Langwig, Katy L. Parise, Jeffrey T. Foster, and J. Paul White.

The scientist's publications have appeared in various venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

    J. A. Patz;P. Daszak;G. M. Tabor;A. A. Aguirre

  • Drivers, dynamics, and control of emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases

    A Marm Kilpatrick;Sarah E Randolph

  • Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation, and Prediction of Zoonotic Disease Emergence.

    Nathan D. Wolfe;Peter Daszak;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Donald S. Burke

  • Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza.

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Aleksei A. Chmura;David W. Gibbons;Robert C. Fleischer

  • "Bird biting" mosquitoes and human disease: a review of the role of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in epidemiology.

    Ary Farajollahi;Dina M. Fonseca;Laura D. Kramer;Laura D. Kramer;A. Marm Kilpatrick

  • West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Laura D Kramer;Matthew J Jones;Peter P Marra

  • West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populations

    Shannon L. LaDeau;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Peter P. Marra

  • Host heterogeneity dominates West Nile virus transmission.

    A Marm Kilpatrick;Peter Daszak;Matthew J Jones;Peter P Marra

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

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Cheryl J. Briggs;Peter Daszak

  • Globalization, Land Use, and the Invasion of West Nile Virus

    A. Marm Kilpatrick

  • Temperature, viral genetics, and the transmission of West Nile virus by Culex pipiens mosquitoes.

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Mark A. Meola;Robin M. Moudy;Laura D. Kramer;Laura D. Kramer

  • Sociality, density-dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white-nose syndrome.

    Kate E. Langwig;Kate E. Langwig;Winifred F. Frick;Jason T. Bried;Alan C. Hicks

  • Frontiers in climate change–disease research

    Jason R. Rohr;Andrew P. Dobson;Pieter T.J. Johnson;A. Marm Kilpatrick

  • Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

    Taal Levi;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Marc Mangel;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality

    Ian Hewson;Jason B. Button;Brent M. Gudenkauf;Benjamin Miner

  • The Effect of Temperature on Life History Traits of Culex Mosquitoes

    Alexander T. Ciota;Amy C. Matacchiero;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Laura D. Kramer

  • From superspreaders to disease hotspots: linking transmission across hosts and space.

    Sara H Paull;Sejin Song;Katherine M McClure;Katherine M McClure;Loren C Sackett

  • Disease alters macroecological patterns of North American bats

    Winifred F. Frick;Sébastien J. Puechmaille;Joseph R. Hoyt;Barry A. Nickel

  • Magnitude of the US trade in amphibians and presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and ranavirus infection in imported North American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)

    Lisa M. Schloegel;Angela M. Picco;A. Marm Kilpatrick;Angela J. Davies

  • Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: Consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Andrew D. M. Dobson;Taal Levi;Daniel J. Salkeld

  • Presence of an emerging pathogen of amphibians in introduced bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana in Venezuela

    Rhea Hanselmann;Argelia Rodrı́guez;Margarita Lampo;Laurie Fajardo-Ramos

Frequent Co-Authors

Winifred F. Frick
Winifred F. Frick Bat Conservation International
Jeffrey T. Foster
Jeffrey T. Foster Northern Arizona University
Peter Daszak
Peter Daszak Columbia University
Laura D. Kramer
Laura D. Kramer University at Albany, State University of New York
Peter P. Marra
Peter P. Marra Georgetown University
Stephen P. Luby
Stephen P. Luby Stanford University
Taal Levi
Taal Levi Oregon State University
Shannon L. LaDeau
Shannon L. LaDeau Duke University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Thomas H. Kunz
Thomas H. Kunz Boston University

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