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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - ASM Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology

Overview

J. Stephen Dumler is affiliated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Specifically, they have contributed extensively to the study of parasitology and infectious diseases, with additional work in public health, environmental and occupational health, insect science, and ecological, evolutionary, behavioral, and systematic biology.

The scientist's research topics concentrate predominantly on vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, and mosquito-borne diseases and control. Other notable areas of study include COVID-19 clinical research, vector-borne animal diseases, long-term effects of COVID-19, and insect symbiosis along with bacterial influences.

Prominent publication venues where Dumler has frequently contributed include Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Scientific Reports.

Frequent coauthors that have collaborated with Dumler multiple times include Paul W. Blair, Danielle V. Clark, Emily G. Clemens, Timothy Burgess, and Andrés F. Londoño.

Recent papers authored by or involving Dumler cover a range of topics linked to their primary fields of focus:

  • "Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis subcommittee report to the Tick-borne Disease Working Group" (2021, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases)
  • "Optimization and Evaluation of a Multiplex Quantitative PCR Assay for Detection of Nucleic Acids in Human Blood Samples from Patients with Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Typhus Rickettsiosis, Scrub Typhus, Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, and Granulocytic Anaplasmosis" (2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
  • "Immune evasion strategies of major tick-transmitted bacterial pathogens" (2022, Trends in Microbiology)
  • "Assessing the use of a micro-sampling device for measuring blood protein levels in healthy subjects and COVID-19 patients" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Development of a Sensitive and Rapid Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay for Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum" (2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology)

Dumler was awarded the ASM Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology by the American Society for Microbiology in 2010.

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

  • Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in the upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging

    Johan S. Bakken;J. Stephen Dumler;Sheng Min Chen;Mark R. Eckman

  • Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses, Ehrlichioses, and Anaplasmosis - United States.

    Holly M. Biggs;Casey Barton Behravesh;Kristy K. Bradley;F. Scott Dahlgren

  • Human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum.

    J. Stephen Dumler;Kyoung Seong Choi;Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia;Nicole S. Barat

  • Direct cultivation of the causative agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis.

    Jesse L. Goodman;Curtis Nelson;Blaise Vitale;John E. Madigan

  • Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

    Johan S. Bakken;Jenny Krueth;Cindy Wilson-Nordskog;Robert L. Tilden

  • Ehrlichioses in Humans: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment

    J. Stephen Dumler;John E. Madigan;Nicola Pusterla;Johan S. Bakken;Johan S. Bakken

  • Gene Sequence-Based Criteria for Identification of New Rickettsia Isolates and Description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov.

    Pierre Edouard Fournier;J. Stephen Dumler;J. Stephen Dumler;Gilbert Greub;Jianzhi Zhang

  • Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis

    Johan S. Bakken;Johan S. Bakken;J. Stephen Dumler

  • Emergence of the Ehrlichioses as Human Health Problems

    David H. Walker;J. Stephen Dumler

  • Nosocomial Transmission of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in China

    Lijuan Zhang;Yan Liu;Daxin Ni;Qun Li

  • Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

    Johan S. Bakken;J. Stephen Dumler

  • Clinical and laboratory features of murine typhus in south Texas, 1980 through 1987.

    J. Stephen Dumler;J. Stephen Dumler;Jeffery P. Taylor;David H. Walker

  • Human infection with a novel tick-borne Anaplasma species in China: a surveillance study

    Hao Li;Yuan Chun Zheng;Lan Ma;Na Jia

  • Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis: a case series from a medical center in New York State.

    Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld;Harold W. Horowitz;Gary P. Wormser;Donna F. McKenna

  • PCR Method for Detection of Adenovirus in Urine of Healthy and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals

    Marcela Echavarria;Michael Forman;John Ticehurst;John Ticehurst;J. Stephen Dumler

  • Clinical diagnosis and treatment of human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis.

    Johan S. Bakken;J. Stephen Dumler

  • Human ehrlichioses: Newly recognized infections transmitted by ticks

    J. Stephen Dumler;Johan S. Bakken

  • Restricted changes in major surface protein-2 ( msp2 ) transcription after prolonged in vitro passage of Anaplasma phagocytophilum

    Diana G Scorpio;Karen Caspersen;Hiroyuki Ogata;Jinho Park;Jinho Park

  • Distinct Host Species Correlate with Anaplasma phagocytophilum ankA Gene Clusters

    Wiebke Scharf;Sonja Schauer;Felix Freyburger;Miroslav Petrovec

  • Single-tier testing with the C6 peptide ELISA kit compared with two-tier testing for Lyme disease

    Gary P. Wormser;Martin Schriefer;Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld;Andrew Levin

  • Current management of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis and Ehrlichia ewingii ehrlichiosis.

    Rachael J Thomas;J Stephen Dumler;Jason A Carlyon

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Walker
David H. Walker The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
John E Madigan
John E Madigan University of California, Davis
Gary P. Wormser
Gary P. Wormser New York Medical College
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Christian Bogdan
Christian Bogdan University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Robert B. Nadelman
Robert B. Nadelman New York Medical College
Christopher W. Woods
Christopher W. Woods Duke University
Joon-Seok Chae
Joon-Seok Chae Seoul National University
Wu-Chun Cao
Wu-Chun Cao Shandong University
Philippe Brouqui
Philippe Brouqui Aix-Marseille University

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