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Heidi K. Goethert

Heidi K. Goethert

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
28
Citations
3167
World Ranking
2674
National Ranking
757

Overview

Heidi K. Goethert is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of medicine, immunology and microbiology, as well as agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans subfields including infectious diseases, parasitology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, public health, environmental and occupational health, and insect science.

Their research topics concentrate on viral infections and vectors, vector-borne infectious diseases, vector-borne animal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases and control, mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models, animal disease management and epidemiology, and the study of mite species.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pathogens
  • Virus Evolution
  • Communications Biology

They have collaborated often with co-authors such as Sam R. Telford, Anne Piantadosi, Thomas N. Mather, and Erick Ojeda.

Recent papers authored by Heidi K. Goethert include:

  • Incrimination of shrews as a reservoir for Powassan virus, 2021, Communications Biology
  • What Babesia microti Is Now, 2021, Pathogens
  • Retrotransposon-Based Blood Meal Analysis of Nymphal Deer Ticks Demonstrates Spatiotemporal Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti Reservoirs, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Powassan Virus Encephalitis Following Brief Attachment of Connecticut Deer Ticks, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Host Contributions to the Force of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti Transmission Differ at Edges of and within a Small Habitat Patch, 2022, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Meningoencephalitis from Borrelia miyamotoi in an immunocompromised patient.

    Joseph L. Gugliotta;Heidi K. Goethert;Victor P. Berardi;Sam R. Telford

  • Borrelia miyamotoi Disease in the Northeastern United States: A Case Series.

    Philip J. Molloy;Sam R. Telford;Hanumara Ram Chowdri;Timothy J. Lepore

  • Infection of dogs in north-west Spain with a Babesia microti-like agent.

    A. T. Camacho;F. J. Guitián;E. Pallas;J. J. Gestal

  • What is Babesia microti

    H. K. Goethert;S. R. Telford

  • Borrelia miyamotoi Infection Presenting as Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis: A Case Report

    Hanumara Ram Chowdri;Joseph L Gugliotta;Victor P Berardi;Heidi K Goethert

  • Entomologic and Serologic Evidence of Zoonotic Transmission of Babesia microti, Eastern Switzerland

    Ivo M. Foppa;Peter J. Krause;Andrew Spielman;Heidi Goethert

  • A global map of genetic diversity in Babesia microti reveals strong population structure and identifies variants associated with clinical relapse

    Jacob E. Lemieux;Jacob E. Lemieux;Alice D. Tran;Lisa Freimark;Stephen F. Schaffner

  • Borrelia miyamotoi Disease: Neither Lyme Disease Nor Relapsing Fever.

    Sam R. Telford;Heidi K. Goethert;Philip J. Molloy;Victor P. Berardi

  • Enzootic transmission of deer tick virus in New England and Wisconsin sites.

    Gregory D. Ebel;Eric N. Campbell;Heidi K. Goethert;Andrew Spielman

  • Azotemia and mortality among Babesia microti-like infected dogs.

    A. Tomas Camacho;F. Javier Guitian;Estrella Pallas;Juan Jesus Gestal

  • Genotypic diversity of Francisella tularensis infecting Dermacentor variabilis ticks on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

    Heidi K. Goethert;Heidi K. Goethert;Inbar Shani;Sam R. Telford;Sam R. Telford

  • Emerging tick-borne infections: rediscovered and better characterized, or truly 'new' ?

    S. R. Telford;H. K. Goethert

  • Nonrandom Distribution of Vector Ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) Infected by Francisella tularensis

    Heidi K. Goethert;Sam R. Telford

  • Enzootic Transmission of Anaplasma bovis in Nantucket Cottontail Rabbits

    Heidi K. Goethert;Sam R. Telford

  • Ecology of Francisella tularensis.

    Sam R. Telford;Heidi K. Goethert

  • Molecular detection of Bartonella schoenbuchensis from ectoparasites of deer in Massachusetts.

    Kotaro Matsumoto;Zenda L. Berrada;Elissa Klinger;Heidi K. Goethert

  • Rickettsia rickettsii (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) in Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) from Kansas

    Zenda L. Berrada;Heidi K. Goethert;Jenny Cunningham;Sam R. Telford

  • Enzootic transmission of Babesia divergens among cottontail rabbits on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

    Heidi K. Goethert;Sam R. Telford

  • Enzootic transmission of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis among cottontail rabbits.

    Heidi K. Goethert;Sam R. Telford

  • Bartonella species in rodents and shrews in the greater Jakarta area.

    Imelda L Winoto;Heidi Goethert;Ima Nurisa Ibrahim;Ikke Yuniherlina

  • Serum protein response and renal failure in canine Babesia annae infection

    Angel Tomas Camacho;Francisco Javier Guitian;Estrella Pallas;Juan Jesus Gestal

  • Borrelia miyamotoi Infection Presenting as Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis

    Hanumara Ram Chowdri;Joseph L. Gugliotta;Victor P. Berardi;Heidi K. Goethert

Frequent Co-Authors

Sam R. Telford
Sam R. Telford Tufts University
Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman Harvard University
Pardis C. Sabeti
Pardis C. Sabeti Harvard University
Patricia J. Holman
Patricia J. Holman Texas A&M University
Kristian G. Andersen
Kristian G. Andersen Scripps Research Institute
Eric S. Rosenberg
Eric S. Rosenberg Harvard University
Joseph A. Cook
Joseph A. Cook University of New Mexico
Chansuda Wongsrichanalai
Chansuda Wongsrichanalai United States Department of the Army
Stephen F. Schaffner
Stephen F. Schaffner Broad Institute
Donald P. Knowles
Donald P. Knowles Washington State University

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