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Microbiology

D-Index
85
Citations
21460
World Ranking
896
National Ranking
416

Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
21438
World Ranking
14783
National Ranking
7470

Sam R. Telford publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sam R. Telford sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 224 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Sam R. Telford D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sam R. Telford sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sam R. Telford is a researcher affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their work spans several fields including Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable focus on parasitology, infectious diseases, and public health.

The scientist's research primarily addresses vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, as well as vector-borne animal diseases. Additional topics covered in their work include mosquito-borne diseases and control, insect and pesticide research, plant parasitism and resistance, and malaria research and control.

Frequent collaborators in Telford's work include Heidi K. Goethert, Jeffrey S. Bourgeois, Linden T. Hu, Luke H. Clendenen, and Stephanie S. You.

Telford's publication record includes contributions to journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Infection and Immunity, and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The number of publications in these venues reflects ongoing active research in infectious disease and microbiology.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Sam R. Telford include:

  • Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2024 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 2024, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Incrimination of shrews as a reservoir for Powassan virus, 2021, Communications Biology
  • 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

  • Perpetuation of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a deer tick-rodent cycle

    Sam R. Telford;Jacqueline E. Dawson;Paula Katavolos;Cynthia K. Warner

  • Concurrent Lyme disease and babesiosis. Evidence for increased severity and duration of illness.

    Peter J. Krause;Sam R. Telford;Andrew Spielman;Vijay Sikand

  • Borrelia burgdorferi OspA is an arthropod-specific transmission-blocking Lyme disease vaccine.

    A M de Silva;S R Telford;L R Brunet;S W Barthold

  • TROSPA, an Ixodes scapularis receptor for Borrelia burgdorferi

    Utpal Pal;Xin Li;Tian Wang;Ruth R. Montgomery

  • A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2018 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology

    J. Michael Miller;Matthew J. Binnicker;Sheldon Campbell;Karen C. Carroll

  • Detection of Babesia microti by polymerase chain reaction.

    D. H. Persing;D. Mathiesen;W. F. Marshall;S. R. Telford

  • Ixodes dammini as a Potential Vector of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

    P. Pancholi;C. P. Kolbert;P. D. Mitchell;K. D. Reed

  • Atovaquone and Azithromycin for the Treatment of Babesiosis

    Peter J. Krause;Timothy Lepore;Vijay K. Sikand;Joseph Gadbaw

  • Persistent and relapsing babesiosis in immunocompromised patients.

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

  • Persistent Parasitemia after Acute Babesiosis

    Peter J. Krause;Andrew Spielman;Sam R. Telford;Vijay K. Sikand

  • Incompetence of deer as reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete.

    Sam R. Telford;Thomas N. Mather;Sean I. Moore;Mark L. Wilson

  • Disease-Specific Diagnosis of Coinfecting Tickborne Zoonoses: Babesiosis, Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, and Lyme Disease

    Peter J. Krause;Kathleen McKay;Charles A. Thompson;Vijay K. Sikand

  • Elimination of Borrelia burgdorferi from vector ticks feeding on OspA-immunized mice.

    Erol Fikrig;Sam R. Telford;Stephen W. Barthold;Fred S. Kantor

  • Meningoencephalitis from Borrelia miyamotoi in an immunocompromised patient.

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

  • Reduced abundance of immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) following elimination of deer.

    Mark L. Wilson;Sam R. Telford;Joseph Piesman;Andrew Spielman

  • Detection of Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp., Rickettsia spp., and Other Eubacteria in Ticks from the Thai-Myanmar Border and Vietnam

    Philippe Parola;Philippe Parola;Jean-Paul Cornet;Yibayiri Osée Sanogo;R. Scott Miller

  • Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in museum specimens of Ixodes dammini ticks.

    David H. Persing;Sam R. Telford;Paul N. Rys;Deborah E. Dodge

  • Babesiosis in Washington State: A New Species of Babesia?

    Robert E. Quick;Barbara L. Herwaldt;John W. Thomford;Michael E. Garnett

  • Description of Babesia duncani n.sp. (Apicomplexa: Babesiidae) from humans and its differentiation from other piroplasms.

    Patricia A. Conrad;Anne M. Kjemtrup;Ramon A. Carreno;John Thomford

  • Increasing health burden of human babesiosis in endemic sites.

    Peter J. Krause;Kathleen Mckay;Joseph Gadbaw;Diane Christianson

  • Babesiosis

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Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman Harvard University
Heidi K. Goethert
Heidi K. Goethert Tufts University
Peter J. Krause
Peter J. Krause Yale University
Erol Fikrig
Erol Fikrig Yale University
Stephen W. Barthold
Stephen W. Barthold University of California, Davis
Richard A. Flavell
Richard A. Flavell Yale University
Gary P. Wormser
Gary P. Wormser New York Medical College
Philippe Parola
Philippe Parola Aix-Marseille University
Patricia A. Conrad
Patricia A. Conrad University of California, Davis

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