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Daniel J. Salkeld is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to vector-borne infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases, and public health, with an emphasis on parasitology and infectious diseases within the broader fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Viral infections and vectors
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Animal disease management and epidemiology
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Insect and pesticide research

Their work appears in several scientific venues, including:

  • PLoS ONE
  • EcoHealth
  • mSphere
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Daniel J. Salkeld cover a range of topics related to ticks and vector surveillance:

  • "Predicting the current and future distribution of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, across the Western US using citizen science collections" (2021), PLoS ONE
  • "Ecological Fallacy and Aggregated Data: A Case Study of Fried Chicken Restaurants, Obesity and Lyme Disease" (2020), EcoHealth
  • "Citizen Science Provides an Efficient Method for Broad-Scale Tick-Borne Pathogen Surveillance of Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis across the United States" (2021), mSphere
  • "Estimating disease vector population size from citizen science data" (2021), Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "Examining Prevalence and Diversity of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Questing Ixodes pacificus Ticks in California" (2021), Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • W. Tanner Porter
  • Julie Wachara
  • Nathan C. Nieto
  • Zachary A. Barrand
  • Kaila DaVall

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

    Montira J. Pongsiri;Joe Roman;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Tony L. Goldberg

  • 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

  • A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic

    Daniel J Salkeld;Kerry A Padgett;James Holland Jones

  • Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

    Hillary S. Young;Rodolfo Dirzo;Kristofer M. Helgen;Douglas J. McCauley

  • Conservation of biodiversity as a strategy for improving human health and well-being

    A. Marm Kilpatrick;Daniel J. Salkeld;Georgia Titcomb;Micah B. Hahn

  • Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change

    Ashley C Holt;Daniel J Salkeld;Curtis L Fritz;James R Tucker

  • Plague outbreaks in prairie dog populations explained by percolation thresholds of alternate host abundance

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Marcel Salathé;Paul Stapp;James Holland Jones

  • Using citizen science to describe the prevalence and distribution of tick bite and exposure to tick-borne diseases in the United States.

    Nathan C. Nieto;W. Tanner Porter;Julie C. Wachara;Thomas J. Lowrey

  • Identifying the Reservoir Hosts of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in California: The Role of the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus)

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Sarah Leonhard;Yvette A. Girard;Nina Hahn

  • Community ecology and disease risk: lizards, squirrels, and the Lyme disease spirochete in California, USA

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Daniel J. Salkeld;Robert S. Lane

  • Seroprevalence Rates and Transmission of Plague (Yersinia pestis) in Mammalian Carnivores

    D.J. Salkeld;P. Stapp

  • Transmission cycles of Borrelia burgdorferi and B. bissettii in relation to habitat type in northwestern California

    Lars Eisen;Rebecca J. Eisen;Jeomhee Mun;Daniel J. Salkeld

  • Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Rodolfo Dirzo;Charles L. Nunn

  • Parasite loads are higher in the tropics: temperate to tropical variation in a single host‐parasite system

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Mandar Trivedi;Lin Schwarzkopf

  • Epizootiology of blood parasites in an Australian lizard: a mark-recapture study of a natural population.

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Lin Schwarzkopf

  • Effects of Land Use on Plague (Yersinia pestis) Activity in Rodents in Tanzania

    Douglas J. McCauley;Daniel J. Salkeld;Hillary S. Young;Rhodes Makundi

  • Seasonal activity patterns of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, in relation to onset of human Lyme disease in northwestern California

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Martin B. Castro;Denise Bonilla;Anne Kjemtrup

  • Tick-borne pathogens in northwestern California, USA.

    Daniel J Salkeld;Stephanie S Cinkovich;Nathan C Nieto

  • Evidence for the involvement of an alternate rodent host in the dynamics of introduced plague in prairie dogs.

    Paul Stapp;Daniel J. Salkeld;Daniel J. Salkeld;Heather A. Franklin;John P. Kraft

  • Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

    Daniel J. Salkeld;Nathan C. Nieto;Patricia Carbajales-Dale;Michael Carbajales-Dale

  • The Ecology of Wildlife Diseases

    Dan J. Salkeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Antolin
Michael F. Antolin Colorado State University
Kristofer M. Helgen
Kristofer M. Helgen Australian Museum
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Rebecca J. Eisen
Rebecca J. Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kenneth L. Gage
Kenneth L. Gage Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Lars Eisen
Lars Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hillary S. Young
Hillary S. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara

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