Durland Fish, Ph.D.
Professor - Spring Triennial
Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Professor Fish's research interests are in the areas of ecology and prevention
of vector-borne infectious diseases. Recent emphasis has been on tick-borne
pathogens causing Lyme disease and human ehrlichiosis in the northeastern U.S.
Current projects include natural and artificial regulation of vector populations,
vector competence for viral and bacterial pathogens, co-infection and transmissions
of multiple pathogens, geographic and spatial analysis of epidemiological data,
and the use of satellite imagery to predict vector-borne disease risk.
Professor Fish is Director of the CDC Fellowship Training Program in Vector-borne Diseases, Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Center for EcoEpidemiology, and Vice Director of the Graduate Program in Organismal and Integrative Biology
Selected Publications
Nadelman, R.B., Nowakowski, J., Fish, D., Falco, R., Freeman,
K., McKenna, D., et. al. Prophylaxis
with Single-Dose Doxycycline for the Prevention of Lyme Disease
after an Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite. New
England Journal of Medicine 345: 79-84, 2001.
Bockenstedt,
L.K., Mao, J., Hodzic, E., Barhold, S.W., and Fish, D. Detection
of Attenuated, Noninfectious Spirochetes in Borrelia burgdorferi-Infected
Mice after Antibiotic Treatment. Journal of Infectious
Diseases 186: 1430-1437, 2002.
Brownstein, J.S., Holford,
T.R., and Fish, D. A Climate-Based Model Predicts the Spatial
Distribution of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes
scapularis in the United States. Environmental Health
Perspectives 111(9):1152-1157, 2003.
Derdáková, M., Dudiňák, V., Brei, B.,
Brownstein, J., Schwartz, I. , and Fish, D. Interaction
and Transmission of Two Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu
Stricto Strains in a Tick-Rodent Maintenance System. Applied
and Environmental Microbiology 70(11): 6783-6788, 2004.
Brownstein,
J.S., Holford, T.R., and Fish, D. Enhancing West Nile Virus Surveillance,
United States. Emerging Infectious
Diseases 10(6): 1129-1133, 2004.
Bunikis, J., Tsao, J.,
Luke, C.J., Luna, M.G., Fish, D., and Barbour, A.G.
Borrelia
burgdorferi Infection
in a Natural Population of Peromyscus Leucopus Mice: A Longitudinal
Study in an Area Where Lyme Borreliosis Is Highly Endemic. Journal of Infectious Diseases 189(8):
1515-1523, 2004.
Tsao, J.I., Wootton, J.T., Bunikis, J., Luna,
M.G., Fish, D., and Barbour, A.G. An
Ecological Approach to Preventing Human Infection: Vaccinating
Wild Mouse Reservoirs Intervenes in the Lyme Disease Cycle. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101(52):
18159–18164, 2004.
Ramamoorthi, N., Narasimhan, S., Pal, U.,
Bao, F., Yang, X.F., Fish, D., Anguita, J., Norgard, M.V., Kantor,
F.S., Anderson , J.F., Koski, R.A., and Fikrig, E. The
Lyme Disease Agent Exploits a Tick Protein to Infect the Mammalian
Host. Nature 436(7050): 573-577, 2005. |
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