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Overview

Charles B. Beard is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in the fields of public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, immunology and allergy, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and parasitology.

The scientist's work concentrates on various topics including viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, vector-borne animal diseases, food allergy and anaphylaxis research, and viral infections and outbreaks research.

Notable recent publications by Charles B. Beard include:

  • "Possible Effects of Climate Change on Ixodid Ticks and the Pathogens They Transmit: Predictions and Observations" (2020), Journal of Medical Entomology
  • "Evaluation of an open forecasting challenge to assess skill of West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease prediction" (2023), Parasites & Vectors
  • "The Rise of Ticks and Tickborne Diseases in the United States-Introduction" (2021), Journal of Medical Entomology
  • "Continuation of Mosquito Surveillance and Control During Public Health Emergencies and Natural Disasters" (2020), MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • "Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae" (2021), Parasites & Vectors

Frequent coauthors of Charles B. Beard include:

  • Karen M. Holcomb
  • J. Erin Staples
  • Randall J. Nett
  • Michael A. Johansson
  • Lyle R. Petersen

Publication venues where Charles B. Beard's work has appeared multiple times include:

  • Journal of Medical Entomology
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • SPIE eBooks
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Best Publications

  • Vital Signs : trends in reported vectorborne disease cases — United States and territories, 2004–2016

    Ronald Rosenberg;Nicole P Lindsey;Marc Fischer;Christopher J Gregory

  • A new name (Pneumocystis jiroveci) for Pneumocystis from humans.

    James R. Stringer;Charles B. Beard;Robert F. Miller;Ann E. Wakefield

  • Rickettsial Pathogens and their Arthropod Vectors

    Abdu F. Azad;Charles B. Beard

  • Current epidemiology of Pneumocystis pneumonia.

    Alison Morris;Jens D. Lundgren;Henry Masur;Peter D. Walzer

  • County-Scale Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States.

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen;Charles B. Beard

  • GENETIC POLYMORPHISM AMONG CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM ISOLATES: EVIDENCE OF TWO DISTINCT HUMAN TRANSMISSION CYCLES

    Peng Mm;Xiao L;Freeman Ar;Arrowood Mj

  • Prevention of insect-borne disease: An approach using transgenic symbiotic bacteria

    R V Durvasula;A Gumbs;A Panackal;O Kruglov

  • Tick-Borne Zoonoses in the United States: Persistent and Emerging Threats to Human Health.

    Rebecca J Eisen;Kiersten J Kugeler;Lars Eisen;Charles B Beard

  • Malaria Control with Genetically Manipulated Insect Vectors

    Luke Alphey;C. Ben Beard;Peter Billingsley;Maureen Coetzee

  • Genetic variation in Pneumocystis carinii isolates from different geographic regions: implications for transmission.

    C. B. Beard;J. L. Carter;S. P. Keely;L. Huang

  • Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle in Southern Texas, USA

    Charles B. Beard;Greg Pye;Frank J. Steurer;Ray Rodriguez

  • Linkages of Weather and Climate With Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae), Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme Disease in North America

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen;Nicholas H. Ogden;Charles B. Beard

  • Sequence and organization of the mitochondrial genome of the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma dimidiata.

    E. M. Dotson;C. B. Beard

  • DIFFERENTIATING HUMAN FROM ANIMAL ISOLATES OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM

    I M Sulaiman;L Xiao;C Yang;L Escalante

  • Molecular phylogeography of the Amazonian Chagas disease vectors Rhodnius prolixus and R. robustus.

    Fernando A. Monteiro;Toby V. Barrett;Sinead Fitzpatrick;Celia Cordon-Rosales

  • The epidemiologic importance of Triatoma brasiliensis as a Chagas disease vector in Brazil: a revision of domiciliary captures during 1993-1999

    Jane Costa;Carlos Eduardo Almeida;Ellen M Dotson;Antônia Lins

  • Modification of arthropod vector competence via symbiotic bacteria

    C Beard;Scott Leslie O'Neill;R Tesh;F Richards

  • Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among triatomine vectors of Chagas' disease

    Daniel F. Lyman;Fernando A. Monteiro;Ananias A. Escalante;Celia Cordon-Rosales

  • Sulfa or sulfone prophylaxis and geographic region predict mutations in the Pneumocystis carinii dihydropteroate synthase gene.

    Laurence Huang;Charles B. Beard;Jennifer Creasman;Deborah Levy

  • Bacterial symbiosis in arthropods and the control of disease transmission.

    C B Beard;R V Durvasula;F F Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Huang
Laurence Huang University of California, San Francisco
Rebecca J. Eisen
Rebecca J. Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Rimland
David Rimland Emory University
Lyle R. Petersen
Lyle R. Petersen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Andrew J. Monaghan
Andrew J. Monaghan University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph Piesman
Joseph Piesman Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lars Eisen
Lars Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
James R. Stringer
James R. Stringer University of Cincinnati
Martin E. Schriefer
Martin E. Schriefer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Frank H. Collins
Frank H. Collins University of Notre Dame

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