Durland Fish

Position: Laboratory Director

Education: B.S. Biology , Albright College, Reading, PA; M.S. Entomology University of Mass, Amherst; Ph.D. Entomology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Current Projects: Work concentrates on epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens, landscape epidemiology of zoonoses, population regulation and biogeography of arthropod vectors.

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., Dudinák, 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.

Contact Information: (203) 785-3223; durland.fish@yale.edu