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Becki Lawson is affiliated with the Zoological Society of London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, Ecology, and Genetics.

The primary topics of Becki Lawson's work relate to viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, wildlife ecology and conservation, bird parasitology and diseases, species distribution and climate change, and amphibian and reptile biology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Becki Lawson include Andrew A. Cunningham, Katharina Seilern-Moy, Simon Spiro, Arran J. Folly, and Jolyon M. Medlock.

The main venues where Lawson's research is published encompass Scientific Reports, Veterinary Record, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Eurosurveillance, and the Journal of Wildlife Diseases.

Recent research publications authored or coauthored by Becki Lawson include:

  • What motivates the masses: Understanding why people contribute to conservation citizen science projects, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Detection of Usutu virus infection in wild birds in the United Kingdom, 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • The population genetics of the causative agent of snake fungal disease indicate recent introductions to the USA, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • How to Start Up a National Wildlife Health Surveillance Programme, 2021, Animals
  • Evidence for overwintering and autochthonous transmission of Usutu virus to wild birds following its redetection in the United Kingdom, 2022, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Best Publications

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

    Robert A. Robinson;Becki Lawson;Mike P. Toms;Kirsi M. Peck

  • Characterisation of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium isolates from wild birds in northern England from 2005 - 2006.

    Laura A Hughes;Sara Shopland;Paul Wigley;Hannah Bradon

  • The emergence and spread of finch trichomonosis in the British Isles.

    Becki Lawson;Robert A. Robinson;Katie M. Colvile;Kirsi M. Peck

  • Health hazards to wild birds and risk factors associated with anthropogenic food provisioning

    Becki Lawson;Robert A. Robinson;Mike P. Toms;Kate Risely

  • Emerging fungal pathogen Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in wild European snakes.

    Lydia H.V. Franklinos;Lydia H.V. Franklinos;Jeffrey M. Lorch;Elizabeth Bohuski;Julia Rodriguez Ramos Fernandez;Julia Rodriguez Ramos Fernandez

  • Poxviral Disease in Red Squirrels Sciurus vulgaris in the UK: Spatial and Temporal Trends of an Emerging Threat

    Anthony W. Sainsbury;Robert Deaville;Becki Lawson;William A. Cooley

  • Epidemiological Evidence That Garden Birds Are a Source of Human Salmonellosis in England and Wales

    Becki Lawson;Elizabeth de Pinna;Robert A. Horton;Shaheed K. Macgregor

  • Citizen Science and Wildlife Disease Surveillance

    Becki Lawson;Silviu O. Petrovan;Andrew Aa Cunningham

  • A clonal strain of Trichomonas gallinae is the aetiologic agent of an emerging avian epidemic disease.

    Becki Lawson;Andrew A. Cunningham;Julian Chantrey;Laura A. Hughes

  • Emergence of a Novel Avian Pox Disease in British Tit Species

    Becki Lawson;Shelly Lachish;Katie M. Colvile;Chris Durrant

  • Epidemiology of salmonellosis in garden birds in England and Wales, 1993 to 2003

    B. Lawson;B. Lawson;T. Howard;J. K. Kirkwood;S. K. Macgregor

  • The finch epidemic strain of Trichomonas gallinae is predominant in British non-passerines

    Jean F. Chi;Becki Lawson;Chris Durrant;Katie Beckmann

  • Evidence of spread of the emerging infectious disease, finch trichomonosis, by migrating birds

    Becki Lawson;Becki Lawson;Robert A. Robinson;Aleksija Neimanis;Kjell Handeland

  • Detection of Usutu virus infection in wild birds in the United Kingdom, 2020.

    Arran J Folly;Becki Lawson;Fabian Zx Lean;Fiona McCracken

  • Trade and conservation implications of new beak and feather disease virus detection in native and introduced parrots.

    Deborah J. Fogell;Deborah J. Fogell;Rowan O. Martin;Nancy Bunbury;Becki Lawson

  • Genomic Analysis of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium from Wild Passerines in England and Wales

    Alison E Mather;Becki Lawson;Elizabeth de Pinna;Paul Wigley

  • Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis supports the presence of host-adapted Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica serovar typhimurium strains in the British garden bird population

    Becki Lawson;Becki Lawson;Laura A. Hughes;Tansy Peters;Elizabeth de Pinna

  • Salmonella Enteritidis ST183: emerging and endemic biotypes affecting western European hedgehogs ( Erinaceus europaeus ) and people in Great Britain

    Becki Lawson;Lydia H. V. Franklinos;Lydia H. V. Franklinos;Julia Rodriguez-Ramos Fernandez;Julia Rodriguez-Ramos Fernandez;Clare Wend-Hansen

  • Extension of the known distribution of a novel clade C betacoronavirus in a wildlife host

    I. F. Saldanha;B. Lawson;H. Goharriz;J. Rodriguez-Ramos Fernandez

  • Multi-locus sequence typing confirms the clonality of Trichomonas gallinae isolates circulating in European finches.

    Petra Ganas;Barbara Jaskulska;Becki Lawson;Marko Zadravec

  • Detection and molecular characterisation of cryptosporidium parvum in British European hedgehogs (erinaceus europaeus)

    Lucy Sangster;Damer P. Blake;Guy Robinson;Timothy C. Hopkins

  • Necrotic ingluvitis in wild finches

    Tom Pennycott;Becki Lawson;Andrew Cunningham;Vic Simpson

  • Emerging fungal pathogenOphidiomyces ophiodiicola in wildEuropean snakes

    Lhv Franklinos;JM Lorch;E Bohuski;J Rodriguez-Ramos Fernandez

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew A. Cunningham
Andrew A. Cunningham Zoological Society of London
Robert A. Robinson
Robert A. Robinson British Trust for Ornithology
Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnson Animal and Plant Health Agency
Anthony R. Fooks
Anthony R. Fooks St George's, University of London
Malcolm J. Bennett
Malcolm J. Bennett University of Nottingham
Adam Grundhoff
Adam Grundhoff Heinrich-Pette-Institute
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Rachel M. Chalmers
Rachel M. Chalmers Singleton Hospital

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