Willy Burgdorfer

Willy Burgdorfer 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 Willy Burgdorfer sits on this spectrum.

Willy Burgdorfer 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 Willy Burgdorfer sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Lyme disease-a tick-borne spirochetosis?

  Willy Burgdorfer;Alan G. Barbour;Stanley F. Hayes;Jorge L. Benach

  3967
  Citations

• The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme Disease

  Allen C. Steere;Robert L. Grodzicki;Arnold N. Kornblatt;Joseph E. Craft

  2010
  Citations

• Spirochetes isolated from the blood of two patients with Lyme disease.

  Jorge L. Benach;Edward M. Bosler;John P. Hanrahan;James L. Coleman

  1012
  Citations

• Lyme borreliosis: relation of its causative agent to its vectors and hosts in North America and Europe.

  R S Lane;J Piesman;W Burgdorfer

  640
  Citations

• Changes in infectivity and plasmid profile of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a result of in vitro cultivation

  Unknown

  409
  Citations

• The western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus: a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi.

  Willy Burgdorfer;Robert S. Lane;Alan G. Barbour;Robert A. Gresbrink

  376
  Citations

• Isolation of a cultivable spirochete from Ixodes ricinus ticks of Switzerland

  Alan G. Barbour;Willy Burgdorfer;Stanley F. Hayes;Olivier Péter

  316
  Citations

• Antibodies of patients with Lyme disease to components of the Ixodes dammini spirochete.

  A G Barbour;W Burgdorfer;E Grunwaldt;A C Steere

  269
  Citations

• Microimmunofluorescence test for the serological study of rocky mountain spotted fever and typhus

  Unknown

  249
  Citations

• Serologic Typing of Rickettsiae of the Spotted Fever Group by Microimmunofluorescence

  Unknown

  245
  Citations

• Natural Distribution of the Ixodes dammini spirochete

  Edward M. Bosler;James L. Coleman;Jorge L. Benach;Darlene A. Massey

  223
  Citations

• Rickettsia peacockii sp. nov., a new species infecting wood ticks, Dermacentor andersoni, in western Montana.

  Mark L. Niebylski;Merry E. Schrumpf;Willy Burgdorfer;Elizabeth R. Fischer

  197
  Citations

• Spirochetes in Ixodes dammini and mammals from Connecticut.

  John F. Anderson;Louis A. Magnarelli;Willy Burgdorfer;Alan G. Barbour

  189
  Citations

• MECHANISMS OF TRANSOVARIAL INFECTION OF SPOTTED FEVER RICKETTSIAE IN TICKS

  Unknown

  184
  Citations

• Ixodes ricinus: vector of a hitherto undescribed spotted fever group agent in Switzerland.

  Burgdorfer W;Aeschlimann A;Peter O;Hayes Sf

  176
  Citations

• Antigenic changes of Borrelia burgdorferi as a result of in vitro cultivation.

  Unknown

  174
  Citations

• The urinary bladder, a consistent source of Borrelia burgdorferi in experimentally infected white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)

  Unknown

  159
  Citations

• Rickettsia bellii sp. nov.: a Tick-Borne Rickettsia, Widely Distributed in the United States, That Is Distinct from the Spotted Fever and Typhus Biogroups

  R. N. Philip;E. A. Casper;R. L. Anacker;J. Cory

  155
  Citations

• Discovery of the Lyme disease spirochete and its relation to tick vectors.

  Unknown

  152
  Citations

• Tick-borne relapsing fever in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada.

  Unknown

  148
  Citations