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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Society Citation Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Gary P. Wormser is affiliated with New York Medical College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within medicine, particularly infectious diseases and immunology and microbiology. Subfields of study include infectious diseases, parasitology, public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and insect science.

The scholar's work covers several main topics, such as vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, dermatological diseases and infestations, mosquito-borne diseases and control, vector-borne animal diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and insect and pesticide research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gary P. Wormser include:

  • Franc Strle
  • Ira Schwartz
  • Paul G. Auwaerter
  • Petra Bogovič
  • Katarina Ogrinc

Common venues where their research has been published are:

  • The American Journal of Medicine
  • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

Significant recent publications include:

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease (2020), published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Comparison of Lyme Disease in the United States and Europe (2021), published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Lyme Disease (2020), published in Arthritis Care & Research
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2020 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Babesiosis (2021), published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2020 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Babesiosis (2020), published in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Their work has been recognized with awards such as the Society Citation Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, received in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Gary P. Wormser;Raymond J. Dattwyler;Eugene D. Shapiro;John J. Halperin

  • An outbreak of community-acquired Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: initial manifestation of cellular immune dysfunction.

    Henry Masur;Mary Ann Michelis;Jeffrey B. Greene;Ida Onorato

  • Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis

    Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld;Guiqing Wang;Ira Schwartz;Gary P. Wormser;Gary P. Wormser

  • Lyme borreliosis

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  • A critical appraisal of "chronic Lyme disease".

    Henry M. Feder;Eugene D. Shapiro;Allen C. Steere;Gary P. Wormser

  • Prophylaxis with Single-Dose Doxycycline for the Prevention of Lyme Disease after an Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite

    Robert B. Nadelman;John Nowakowski;Durland Fish;Richard C. Falco

  • Erratum: The clinical assessment, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and babesiosis: Clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (Clinical Infectious Diseases (2006) 43, (1089-1134))

    G. P. Wormser;R. J. Dattwyler;E. D. Shapiro;John Halperin

  • Epidemiology and Mortality Risk of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Bloodstream Infections

    David K. Shay;Susan A. Maloney;Marisa Montecalvo;Shailen Banerjee

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease.

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  • MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Gabriele Margos;Anne G. Gatewood;David M. Aanensen;Klára Hanincová

  • Persistent and relapsing babesiosis in immunocompromised patients.

    Peter J. Krause;Benjamin E. Gewurz;Benjamin E. Gewurz;David Hill;Francisco M. Marty

  • Serodiagnosis of Lyme Disease by Kinetic Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Recombinant VlsE1 or Peptide Antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi Compared with 2-Tiered Testing Using Whole-Cell Lysates

    Rendi Murphree Bacon;Brad J. Biggerstaff;Martin E. Schriefer;Robert D. Gilmore

  • Four Clones of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto Cause Invasive Infection in Humans

    Gerald Seinost;Daniel E. Dykhuizen;Raymond J. Dattwyler;William T. Golde

  • Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: A Review

    Edgar Sanchez;Edouard Vannier;Gary P. Wormser;Linden T. Hu

  • Evolution of the serologic response to Borrelia burgdorferi in treated patients with culture-confirmed erythema migrans.

    M E Aguero-Rosenfeld;J Nowakowski;S Bittker;D Cooper

  • Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Early Lyme Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Gary P. Wormser;Roshan Ramanathan;John Nowakowski;Donna McKenna

  • Borrelia lonestari Infection after a Bite by an Amblyomma americanum Tick

    Angela M. James;Dionysios Liveris;Gary P. Wormser;Ira Schwartz

  • The clinical spectrum of early lyme borreliosis in patients with culture-confirmed erythema migrans

    Robert B. Nadelman;John Nowakowski;Gilda Forseter;Neil S. Goldberg

  • Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in the United States.

    Peter J. Krause;Sukanya Narasimhan;Gary P. Wormser;Lindsay Rollend

  • Simultaneous Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis and Lyme Borreliosis

    Robert B. Nadelman;Harold W. Horowitz;Tze-chen Hsieh;Joseph M. Wu

  • Infection-Control Measures Reduce Transmission of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in an Endemic Setting

    Marisa A. Montecalvo;William R. Jarvis;Jane Uman;David K. Shay

  • Risk of Nosocomial Infection with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus III (HTLV-III)

    Hirsch Ms;Wormser Gp;Schooley Rt;Ho Dd

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Nadelman
Robert B. Nadelman New York Medical College
John Nowakowski
John Nowakowski New York Medical College
Ira Schwartz
Ira Schwartz New York Medical College
Franc Strle
Franc Strle University of Ljubljana
Adriana Marques
Adriana Marques National Institutes of Health
Allen C. Steere
Allen C. Steere Harvard University
Peter J. Krause
Peter J. Krause Yale University
J. Stephen Dumler
J. Stephen Dumler Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Sam R. Telford
Sam R. Telford Tufts University
Mark S. Klempner
Mark S. Klempner University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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