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Rebecca J. Eisen is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases related to the Yersinia bacterium, including plague and its vectors, as well as zoonotic diseases and public health implications. Their work also spans broader areas such as vector-borne infectious diseases and bacterial research.

Their recent scholarly contributions include papers published between 2020 and 2022, addressing various aspects of plague ecology, detection methods, and disease prevention. Notable publications include:

  • Pentaplex real-time PCR for differential detection of Yersinia pestis and Y.pseudotuberculosis and application for testing fleas collected during plague epizootics (2020) in MicrobiologyOpen
  • Epidemiology, Ecology and Prevention of Plague in the West Nile Region of Uganda: The Value of Long-Term Field Studies (2021) in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Exploring and Mitigating Plague for One Health Purposes (2022) in Current Tropical Medicine Reports
  • The changing triad of plague in Uganda: invasive black rats (Rattus rattus), indigenous small mammals, and their fleas (2020) in Journal of Vector Ecology
  • A Novel Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection of Yersinia pestis (2022) in Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rebecca J. Eisen include:

  • Russell E. Enscore
  • Linda A. Atiku
  • Ying Bai
  • Maria Rosales Rizzo
  • Paul S. Mead

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in prominent venues, such as:

  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • MicrobiologyOpen
  • Current Tropical Medicine Reports
  • Journal of Vector Ecology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Their fields of study include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, with additional focus on medicine. Subfields emphasized in their research are genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, parasitology, endocrinology, and molecular biology.

Rebecca J. Eisen's main topics of research cover:

  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
  • Animal ecology and behavior studies
  • Ethnobotanical and medicinal plants studies

Best Publications

  • Climate and vectorborne diseases.

    Kenneth L. Gage;Thomas R. Burkot;Rebecca J. Eisen;Edward B. Hayes

  • County-Scale Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States.

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen;Charles B. Beard

  • The Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis: An Increasing Public Health Concern.

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen

  • Tick-Borne Zoonoses in the United States: Persistent and Emerging Threats to Human Health.

    Rebecca J Eisen;Kiersten J Kugeler;Lars Eisen;Charles B Beard

  • Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked fleas as a mechanism explaining rapidly spreading plague epizootics

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Scott W. Bearden;Aryn P. Wilder;John A. Montenieri

  • Linkages of Weather and Climate With Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae), Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme Disease in North America

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen;Nicholas H. Ogden;Charles B. Beard

  • Multistate Infestation with the Exotic Disease–Vector Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis — United States, August 2017–September 2018

    C. Ben Beard;James Occi;Denise L. Bonilla;Andrea M. Egizi

  • Transmission of Flea-Borne Zoonotic Agents*

    Rebecca J Eisen;Kenneth L Gage

  • Using Geographic Information Systems and Decision Support Systems for the Prediction, Prevention, and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

    Lars Eisen;Rebecca J. Eisen

  • Geographic Variation in the Relationship between Human Lyme Disease Incidence and Density of Infected Host-Seeking Ixodes scapularis Nymphs in the Eastern United States

    Kim M. Pepin;Rebecca J. Eisen;Paul S. Mead;Joseph Piesman

  • Tick and Tickborne Pathogen Surveillance as a Public Health Tool in the United States

    Rebecca J Eisen;Christopher D Paddock

  • Adaptive strategies of Yersinia pestis to persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods

    Rebecca J Eisen;Kenneth L Gage

  • Spatial distribution of counties in the continental United States with records of occurrence of Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae).

    Yuri P. Springer;Yuri P. Springer;Lars Eisen;Lorenza Beati;Angela M. James

  • Critical Evaluation of the Linkage Between Tick-Based Risk Measures and the Occurrence of Lyme Disease Cases

    Lars Eisen;Rebecca J. Eisen

  • Persistence of Yersinia pestis in Soil Under Natural Conditions

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Jeannine M. Petersen;Charles L. Higgins;David Wong

  • Reported Distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in the United States, 1995-2016 (Diptera: Culicidae).

    Micah B Hahn;Rebecca J Eisen;Lars Eisen;Karen A Boegler

  • Modeling the Geographic Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States

    Micah B. Hahn;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Andrew J. Monaghan;Rebecca J. Eisen

  • Modeling the Present and Future Geographic Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the Continental United States

    Yuri P. Springer;Catherine S. Jarnevich;David T. Barnett;Andrew J. Monaghan

  • Detection of a Borrelia miyamotoi Sensu Lato Relapsing-Fever Group Spirochete from Ixodes pacificus in California

    Jeomhee Mun;Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen;Robert S. Lane

  • Early-phase Transmission of Yersinia pestis by Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and Their Potential Role as Vectors in a Plague-endemic Region of Uganda

    Rebecca J Eisen;Jeff N Borchert;Jennifer L Holmes;Gerald Amatre

  • The roles of birds, lizards, and rodents as hosts for the western black-legged tick Ixodes pacificus.

    Lars Eisen;Rebecca J. Eisen;Robert S. Lane

  • Spatial modeling of human risk of exposure to vector-borne pathogens based on epidemiological versus arthropod vector data.

    Rebecca J. Eisen;Lars Eisen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Eisen
Lars Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kenneth L. Gage
Kenneth L. Gage Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John A. Montenieri
John A. Montenieri Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Andrew J. Monaghan
Andrew J. Monaghan University of Colorado Boulder
Paul S. Mead
Paul S. Mead Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert S. Lane
Robert S. Lane University of California, Berkeley
Charles B. Beard
Charles B. Beard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Joseph Piesman
Joseph Piesman Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael F. Antolin
Michael F. Antolin Colorado State University
Daniel J. Salkeld
Daniel J. Salkeld Colorado State University

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