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Emily J. Jenkins is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in fields related to medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including parasitology, infectious diseases, ecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics reflect a focus on viral infections and vectors, parasitic infections and diagnostics, parasitic infections in humans and animals, parasite biology and host interactions, zoonotic diseases and public health, Toxoplasma gondii research studies, and congenital anomalies and fetal surgery.

Emily J. Jenkins has published articles in a variety of venues, frequently contributing to:

  • International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Arctic Science
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jenkins include Kayla J. Buhler, Patrick A. Leighton, Émilie Bouchard, Rajnish Sharma, and Adrián Hernández-Ortiz.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • "A repeatable and quantitative DNA metabarcoding assay to characterize mixed strongyle infections in horses," 2020, International Journal for Parasitology
  • "Hiding in plain sight: discovery and phylogeography of a cryptic species of Trichinella (Nematoda: Trichinellidae) in wolverine (Gulo gulo)," 2020, International Journal for Parasitology
  • "Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN)," 2020, Canada Communicable Disease Report
  • "Long-term increases in pathogen seroprevalence in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) influenced by climate change," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "From wildlife to humans: The global distribution of Trichinella species and genotypes in wildlife and wildlife-associated human trichinellosis," 2024, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife

Best Publications

  • Global Distribution of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis.

    P Deplazes;L Rinaldi;C A Alvarez Rojas;P R Torgerson

  • Global warming is changing the dynamics of Arctic host–parasite systems

    S. J. Kutz;Eric P. Hoberg;L. Polley;E. J. Jenkins

  • The Arctic as a model for anticipating, preventing, and mitigating climate change impacts on host-parasite interactions.

    Susan J. Kutz;Emily J. Jenkins;Alasdair M. Veitch;Julie Ducrocq

  • The impact of globalisation on the distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis

    Rebecca K. Davidson;Thomas Romig;Emily Jenkins;Morten Tryland

  • Tradition and transition: parasitic zoonoses of people and animals in Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland.

    Emily J Jenkins;Louisa J Castrodale;Simone J C de Rosemond;Brent R Dixon

  • The potential impact of climate change on infectious diseases of Arctic fauna

    Michael J. Bradley;Susan J. Kutz;Emily Jenkins;Todd M. O’Hara

  • Parasite prevalence in fecal samples from shelter dogs and cats across the Canadian provinces.

    Alain Villeneuve;Lydden Polley;Emily Jenkins;Janna Schurer

  • Integrated Approaches and Empirical Models for Investigation of Parasitic Diseases in Northern Wildlife

    Eric P. Hoberg;Lydden Polley;Emily J. Jenkins;Susan J. Kutz

  • Old problems on a new playing field: Helminth zoonoses transmitted among dogs, wildlife, and people in a changing northern climate

    Emily J. Jenkins;Janna M. Schurer;Karen M. Gesy

  • Echinococcus multilocularis in urban coyotes, Alberta, Canada.

    Stefano Catalano;Manigandan Lejeune;Stefano Liccioli;Guilherme G. Verocai

  • Beringia: Intercontinental exchange and diversification of high latitude mammals and their parasites during the Pliocene and Quaternary

    Joseph A. Cook;Eric P. Hoberg;Anson Koehler;Heikki Henttonen

  • Echinococcus canadensis, E. borealis, and E. intermedius. What's in a name?

    Alan J. Lymbery;Emily J. Jenkins;Janna M. Schurer;R.C. Andrew Thompson

  • Climate change and the epidemiology of protostrongylid nematodes in northern ecosystems: Parelaphostrongylus odocoilei and Protostrongylus stilesi in Dall's sheep ( Ovis d. dalli ).

    E. J. Jenkins;A. M. Veitch;S. J. Kutz;E. P. Hoberg

  • Wildlife parasites in a One Health world

    Emily J. Jenkins;Audrey Simon;Nicholas Bachand;Craig Stephen

  • Detection of European Strain of Echinococcus multilocularis in North America

    Emily J. Jenkins;Andrew S. Peregrine;Janet E. Hill;Christopher Somers

  • A repeatable and quantitative DNA metabarcoding assay to characterize mixed strongyle infections in horses.

    Jocelyn Poissant;Stefan Gavriliuc;Jennifer Bellaw;Elizabeth M. Redman

  • GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE MUSCLE-DWELLING NEMATODE PARELAPHOSTRONGYLUS ODOCOILEI IN NORTH AMERICA, USING MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF FIRST-STAGE LARVAE

    Emily J. Jenkins;Greg D. Appleyard;Eric P. Hoberg;Benjamin M. Rosenthal

  • Negative covariance between parasite load and body condition in a population of feral horses

    Lucie Debeffe;Philip D. McLoughlin;Sarah A. Medill;Kathrine M. Stewart

  • Serendipitous discovery of a novel protostrongylid (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea) in caribou, muskoxen, and moose from high latitudes of North America based on DNA sequence comparisons

    Susan J. KutzS.J. Kutz;Ingrid AsmundssonI. Asmundsson;Eric P. HobergE.P. Hoberg;Greg D. AppleyardG.D. Appleyard

  • Emergence of sylvatic Echinococcus granulosus as a parasitic zoonosis of public health concern in an indigenous community in Canada.

    Chelsea G. Himsworth;Emily Jenkins;Janet E. Hill;Mandiangu Nsungu

  • Hiding in plain sight: discovery and phylogeography of a cryptic species of Trichinella (Nematoda: Trichinellidae) in wolverine (Gulo gulo).

    Rajnish Sharma;Peter C. Thompson;Eric P. Hoberg;W. Brad Scandrett

  • Multiple Zoonotic Pathogens Identified in Canine Feces Collected from a Remote Canadian Indigenous Community

    Chelsea G. Himsworth;Stuart Skinner;Bonnie Chaban;Emily Jenkins

  • Protostrongylus stilesi (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae): Ecological Isolation and Putative Host-Switching Between Dall’s Sheep and Muskoxen in a Contact Zone

    Eric P. Hoberg;Susan J. Kutz;John Nagy;Emily Jenkins

  • Veterinary Clinical Parasitology, 7th ed.

    Emily J. Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan J. Kutz
Susan J. Kutz University of Calgary
Eric P. Hoberg
Eric P. Hoberg United States Department of Agriculture
Janet E. Hill
Janet E. Hill University of Saskatchewan
Ray T. Alisauskas
Ray T. Alisauskas Environment and Climate Change Canada
Andrew S. Peregrine
Andrew S. Peregrine University of Guelph
Larissa L. Bailey
Larissa L. Bailey Colorado State University
Bruno Gottstein
Bruno Gottstein University of Bern
John S. Gilleard
John S. Gilleard University of Calgary
Brent R. Dixon
Brent R. Dixon University of Ottawa
Cheryl L. Waldner
Cheryl L. Waldner University of Saskatchewan

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