R. Massung

Joshua D. Hartzell, P. Fournier, C. Paddock, 2013, MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports.

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from a Coastal Region of California

K. Holden, R. Massung, Sulekha Anand, 2003, Journal of medical entomology.

Brill-Zinsser disease in a patient following infection with sylvatic epidemic typhus associated with flying squirrels.

Catherine M. Brown, J. McQuiston, W. Nicholson, 2010, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Epidemic typhus meningitis in the southwestern United States.

L. Davis, L. Davis, R. Massung, 2001, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Survey of laboratory animal technicians in the United States for Coxiella burnetii antibodies and exploration of risk factors for exposure.

R. Berkelman, M. Huerkamp, R. Massung, 2013, Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS.

Genotyping and Axenic Growth of Coxiella burnetii Isolates Found in the United States Environment.

B. Biggerstaff, P. Keim, T. Pearson, 2016, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

High prevalence and two dominant host-specific genotypes of Coxiella burnetii in U . S .

L. Price, P. Keim, T. Pearson, 2014 .

High prevalence and two dominant host-specific genotypes of Coxiella burnetii in U.S. milk

L. Price, P. Keim, T. Pearson, 2014, BMC Microbiology.

Seroprevalence of Q fever in the United States, 2003-2004.

D. Kruszon-Moran, G. Mcquillan, A. Loftis, 2009, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

A sustained-release formulation of doxycycline hyclate (Atridox) prevents simultaneous infection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by tick bite.

R. Massung, E. Dadey, M. Levin, 2008, Journal of medical microbiology.

Coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi and the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis suppresses IL‐2 and IFNγ production and promotes an IL‐4 response in C3H/HeJ mice

D. Fish, J. Piesman, R. Massung, 2000, Parasite immunology.

Serological Evidence of Coxiella burnetii Infection in Cattle and Goats in Bangladesh

J. Epstein, P. Daszak, E. Gurley, 2015, EcoHealth.

Effects of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi on modulation of the host immune response: induction of a TH2 cytokine response in Lyme disease-susceptible (C3H/HeJ) mice but not in disease-resistant (BALB/c) mice

M. Mbow, J. Piesman, R. Massung, 1997, Infection and immunity.

Serologic and molecular detection of granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Rhode Island

T. Mather, R. Massung, J. Sumner, 1997, Journal of clinical microbiology.

A protein phosphatase related to the vaccinia virus VH1 is encoded in the genomes of several orthopoxviruses and a baculovirus.

J. Dixon, R. Massung, J. Esposito, 1993, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Multiplex Taqman PCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophila and Borrelia burgdorferi

R. Massung, Joshua W. Courtney, 2003, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Molecular Characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis Ticks from Pennsylvania

B. S. Schneider, Gary Smith, R. Massung, 2003, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

The gene encoding the 17-kDa antigen of Bartonella henselae is located within a cluster of genes homologous to the virB virulence operon.

I. Padmalayam, R. Massung, K. Karem, 2000, DNA and cell biology.

Experimental and field studies on the suitability of raccoons (Procyon lotor) as hosts for tick-borne pathogens.

D. Stallknecht, C. Blackmore, M. Yabsley, 2008, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Infection with Agents of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, Lyme Disease, and Babesiosis in Wild White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Connecticut

John F Anderson, R. Massung, L. Magnarelli, 1999, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Increasing Incidence of Ehrlichiosis in the United States: A Summary of National Surveillance of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii Infections in the United States, 2008-2012.

C. B. Behravesh, R. Massung, F. Dahlgren, 2016, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

The molecular biology of swinepox virus. II. The infectious cycle.

R. Moyer, R. Massung, 1991, Virology.

National Surveillance of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses in the United States, 2008-2012.

C. Paddock, C. B. Behravesh, R. Massung, 2016, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Assessment of Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Rickettsia spp. and Rickettsia rickettsii in Banked Clinical Samples

G. Dasch, R. Massung, C. Kato, 2012, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Rocky mountain spotted fever in the United States, 2000-2007: interpreting contemporary increases in incidence.

R. Holman, D. Swerdlow, J. Openshaw, 2010, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum in central and western Wisconsin: a molecular survey

D. Essar, R. Massung, C. Rosenfield, 2006, Parasitology Research.

Coxiella burnetii in northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) placentas from St. Paul Island, Alaska.

T. Gelatt, C. Duncan, K. Patyk, 2012, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Isolation and molecular characterization of the swinepox virus thymidine kinase gene.

R. Moyer, E. Viñuela, P. Turner, 1991, Virology.

Multiplex Real-Time PCR for Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi

R. Massung, N. Zeidner, Joshua W. Courtney, 2004, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Feline granulocytic ehrlichiosis--a report of a new clinical entity and characterisation of the infectious agent.

R. Massung, J. H. Owens, A. Bjöersdorff, 1999, The Journal of small animal practice.

Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses, Ehrlichioses, and Anaplasmosis - United States.

B. Pritt, R. Nadelman, J. Dumler, 2016, MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports.

PCR strategy for identification and differentiation of small pox and other orthopoxviruses

R. Massung, J. Knight, J. Esposito, 1995, Journal of clinical microbiology.

Comparison of the genome DNA sequences of Bangladesh-1975 and India-1967 variola viruses.

S. Shchelkunov, R. Massung, R F Massung, 1995, Virus research.

Analysis of the complete genome of smallpox variola major virus strain Bangladesh-1975.

A. Kerlavage, J. Venter, R. Massung, 1994, Virology.

Potential virulence determinants in terminal regions of variola smallpox virus genome

A. Kerlavage, J. Venter, J. Venter, 1993, Nature.

Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis

A. Loftis, R. Massung, M. Levin, 2003, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Identification of a p28 Gene in Ehrlichia ewingii: Evaluation of Gene for Use as a Target for a Species-Specific PCR Diagnostic Assay

G. Storch, S. Stockham, R. Massung, 2001, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Nested PCR Assay for Detection of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae

J. Olson, T. Mather, W. Nicholson, 1998, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Ehrlichia-infected ticks on migrating birds.

S. Bergström, B. Olsen, P. Haemig, 2001, Emerging infectious diseases.

Serological evidence of Ehrlichia infection in Swedish Lyme borreliosis patients.

P. Brouqui, R. Massung, I. Eliasson, 1999, Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases.

Sequence Analysis of the msp4 Gene of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains

S. Caracappa, J. de la Fuente, V. Naranjo, 2005, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Polymorphism and Transcription at the p44-1/p44-18 Genomic Locus in Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains from Diverse Geographic Regions

Y. Rikihisa, R. Massung, Z. Woldehiwet, 2004, Infection and Immunity.

Inability of a variant strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum to infect mice.

T. Mather, R. Massung, N. J. Miller, 2003, The Journal of infectious diseases.

Genetic Variants of Ehrlichia phagocytophila, Rhode Island and Connecticut

T. Mather, R. Massung, M. Mauel, 2002, Emerging infectious diseases.

Reservoir Competency of Goats for the Ap-Variant 1 Strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum

T. Mather, R. Massung, M. Levin, 2006, Infection and Immunity.

Massive dispersal of Coxiella burnetii among cattle across the United States

P. Keim, C. Hepp, T. Pearson, 2016, Microbial genomics.

Virulence of pathogenic Coxiella burnetii strains after growth in the absence of host cells.

Joshua S. Self, R. Massung, G. Kersh, 2011, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Rapid Typing of Coxiella burnetii

Paul Keim, Talima Pearson, Dawn N. Birdsell, 2011, PloS one.

Molecular typing of Coxiella burnetii (Q fever).

D. Frangoulidis, R. Massung, S. Cutler, 2012, Advances in experimental medicine and biology.

Coxiella burnetii Infection of Marine Mammals in the Pacific Northwest, 1997–2010

A. Akmajian, S. Zaki, S. Raverty, 2012, Journal of wildlife diseases.

High prevalence and two dominant host-specific genotypes of Coxiella burnetii in U.S. milk

L. Price, P. Keim, T. Pearson, 2014, BMC Microbiology.

Presence of Coxiella burnetii DNA in the Environment of the United States, 2006 to 2008

Joshua S. Self, A. Loftis, R. Massung, 2010, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Q fever, spotted fever group, and typhus group rickettsioses among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania.

J. Crump, J. Bartlett, V. Maro, 2011, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Prevalence and clinical presentation of Rickettsia, Coxiella, Leptospira, Bartonella and chikungunya virus infections among hospital-based febrile patients from December 2008 to November 2009 in Bangladesh

Mahmudur Rahman, A. Powers, E. Gurley, 2017, BMC Infectious Diseases.

Topography of variola smallpox virus inverted terminal repeats.

R. Massung, J. Knight, J. Esposito, 1995, Virology.

PCR amplification and comparison of nucleotide sequences from the groESL heat shock operon of Ehrlichia species

W. Nicholson, R. Massung, J. Sumner, 1997, Journal of clinical microbiology.

Rickettsia and Coxiella

M. Eremeeva, G. Dasch, R. Massung, 2011 .

Diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains, USA

J. Foley, P. Foley, R. Massung, 2009, Emerging infectious diseases.

Recruitment to the cytoplasm of a cellular lamin-like protein from the nucleus during a poxvirus infection.

D. Morrison, R. Moyer, D. Bloom, 1989, Virology.

Isolation and Propagation of the Ap-Variant 1 Strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a Tick Cell Line

U. Munderloh, T. Kurtti, R. Massung, 2007, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Comparison of the reservoir competence of medium-sized mammals and Peromyscus leucopus for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Connecticut.

D. Fish, W. Nicholson, R. Massung, 2002, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum Has a Functional msp2 Gene That Is Distinct from p44

Y. Rikihisa, Xueqi Wang, R. Massung, 2004, Infection and Immunity.

Transmission of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis by Ixodes spinipalpis ticks: evidence of an enzootic cycle of dual infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in Northern Colorado.

T. Burkot, B. Biggerstaff, G. Maupin, 2000, The Journal of infectious diseases.

Prophylactic Use of Sustained‐Release Doxycycline Blocks Tick‐Transmitted Infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a Murine Model

D. Roellig, R. Massung, M. Levin, 2005, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Comparison of PCR Assays for Detection of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum

R. Massung, K. Slater, 2003, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis--a clinical case in Scandinavia.

R. Massung, U. Karlsson, B. Christensson, 2001, Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases.

Sequence Analysis of the ank Gene of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae

R. Massung, K. Reed, M. Petrovec, 2000, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Mixed cryoglobulinemia and secondary membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with ehrlichiosis

K. Mcleish, W. Shieh, J. Summersgill, 2014, CEN Case Reports.

Q fever in the United States: summary of case reports from two national surveillance systems, 2000-2012.

J. McQuiston, R. Massung, A. Anderson, 2015, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Characterization of the rRNA genes of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophila.

R. Massung, M. Mauel, Kemba N Lee, 2002, DNA and cell biology.

Inoculation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Ap-V1 Or NY-18 strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and microscopic demonstration of Ap-V1 In Ixodes scapularis adults that acquired infection from deer as nymphs.

J. de la Fuente, E. Blouin, K. Kocan, 2009, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Q Fever by the Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society

Capt., Joshua D. Hartzell, G. Wortmann, 2022 .

Difficulties in the diagnosis and management of a US servicemember presenting with possible chronic Q fever.

R. Massung, T. Whitman, T. Gleeson, 2010, The Journal of infection.

Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever, in domestic sheep flocks from Wyoming, United States.

W. Reeves, A. Loftis, R. Massung, 2012, Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

Transmission route efficacy and kinetics of Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus.

R. Massung, M. Levin, R. Priestley, 2004, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Nucleotide sequence analysis of a unique near-terminal region of the tumorigenic poxvirus, Shope fibroma virus.

G. McFadden, R. Moyer, R. Massung, 1992, The Journal of general virology.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale Elicit Different Gene Expression Responses in Cultured Tick Cells

J. de la Fuente, R. Manzano-Román, V. Naranjo, 2009, Comparative and functional genomics.

Differential Expression of the Tick Protective Antigen Subolesin in Anaplasma marginale‐ and A. phagocytophilum‐infected Host Cells

J. de la Fuente, R. Manzano-Román, V. Naranjo, 2008, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Increasing incidence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the United States, 2000-2007.

J. McQuiston, R. Massung, J. Krebs, 2011, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

A large Q fever outbreak in an urban school in central Israel.

D. Swerdlow, S. Pitlik, D. Raveh, 2010, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Detection of Coxiella burnetii in commercially available raw milk from the United States.

A. Loftis, R. Massung, R. Priestley, 2010, Foodborne pathogens and disease.

IS1111 insertion sequences of Coxiella burnetii: characterization and use for repetitive element PCR-based differentiation of Coxiella burnetii isolates

H. A. Thompson, R. Massung, A. Denison, 2007, BMC Microbiology.

Long-Term Immune Responses to Coxiella burnetii after Vaccination

B. Biggerstaff, Joshua S. Self, R. Massung, 2012, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology.

Isolation and Characterization of Two European Strains of Ehrlichia phagocytophila of Equine Origin

R. Massung, I. Eliasson, A. Bjöersdorff, 2002, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology.

PCR Detection of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Ixodes ricinus Ticks and Wild Small Mammals in Western Switzerland

M. Brossard, R. Massung, L. Gern, 2001, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Detection and Differentiation of Old World Orthopoxviruses: Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism of thecrmB Gene Region

H. Meyer, V. Loparev, R. Massung, 2001, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Coxiella burnetii Infection of a Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) Found in Washington State

A. Akmajian, S. Raverty, Joshua S. Self, 2010, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

CASE REPORTS Coxiella burnetii Infection of a Steller Sea Lion ( Eumetopias jubatus ) Found in Washington State (cid:1)

A. Akmajian, S. Raverty, Joshua S. Self, 2010 .

Succinate dehydrogenase gene arrangement and expression in Anaplasma phagocytophilum.

K. Brayton, R. Massung, G. Palmer, 2008, Gene.

Human H1 histone gene promoter CCAAT box binding protein HiNF-B is a mosaic factor.

G S Stein, J L Stein, G. Stein, 1988, Biochemistry.

DNA Amplification: Current Technologies and Applications

R. Massung, Robert F. Massung, 2005, Emerging Infectious Diseases.

A Mixed Outbreak of Epidemic Typhus Fever and Trench Fever in a Youth Rehabilitation Center: Risk Factors for Illness from a Case-Control Study, Rwanda, 2012.

A. Binagwaho, I. Umulisa, E. Mills, 2016, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Ambient generation of fatty acid methyl ester ions from bacterial whole cells by direct analysis in real time (DART) mass spectrometry.

H. A. Thompson, F. Fernández, R. Cody, 2007, Chemical communications.

Orthopoxvirus gene expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes: a component of the virion is needed for late gene expression

R. Moyer, R. Massung, 1990, Journal of virology.

Practical Method for Extraction of PCR-Quality DNA from Environmental Soil Samples

R. Massung, G. Kersh, K. Fitzpatrick, 2010, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis as a Common Cause of Tick-associated Fever in Southeast Sweden: Report from a Prospective Clinical Study

R. Massung, I. Eliasson, J. Berglund, 2002, Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases.

Ehrlichial meningitis with cerebrospinal fluid morulae.

J. Hooke, R. Massung, R. Miller, 1999, The Pediatric infectious disease journal.

Stability of Coxiella burnetii in stored human blood

R. Massung, G. Kersh, R. Priestley, 2013, Transfusion.

Community-Based Control of the Brown Dog Tick in a Region with High Rates of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, 2012–2013

Erica L. Weis, J. McQuiston, R. Massung, 2014, PloS one.

Bartonella spp. and Rickettsia felis in Fleas, Democratic Republic of Congo

A. Laudisoit, M. Eremeeva, S. Karpathy, 2008, Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Outbreak of Q fever associated with a horse-boarding ranch, Colorado, 2005.

W. J. Pape, W. Bamberg, H. Maguire, 2007, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Isolation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strain Ap‐Variant 1 in a Tick‐Derived Cell Line

U. Munderloh, T. Kurtti, R. Massung, 2006, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Analysis of the O-antigen biosynthesis regions of phase II isolates of Coxiella burnetii.

H. A. Thompson, R. Massung, A. Denison, 2007, FEMS microbiology letters.

Characterization of the ftsZ gene from Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Rickettsia rickettsii, and use as a differential PCR target.

I. Padmalayam, R. Massung, B. Baumstark, 2003, DNA and cell biology.

Molecular cloning and analysis of a region of the Bartonella bacilliformis genome encoding NlpD, L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase and YajC homologs.

I. Padmalayam, R. Massung, W. Fiskus, 2003, DNA and Cell Biology.

Route of Transmission Alters the Infectivity of Anaplasma phagocytophila in Mice

R. Massung, M. Levin, R. Priestley, 2003, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Transmission Efficiency of the AP‐Variant 1 Strain of Anaplasma phagocytophila

T. Mather, R. Massung, M. Levin, 2003, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses, Ehrlichioses, and Anaplasmosis - United States.

B. Pritt, R. Nadelman, J. Dumler, 2016, MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports.

Survival of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in refrigerated, ADSOL‐treated RBCs

J. Childs, C. Paddock, R. Massung, 2000, Transfusion.

J. de la Fuente, E. Blouin, K. Kocan, 2009, Vector borne and zoonotic diseases.

Molecular Evidence for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Israel

M. Inbar, Arian D. Wallach, K. Mumcuoglu, 2007, Emerging Infectious Diseases.

PCR Detection of Granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Ixodes ricinus Ticks and Wild Small Mammals in Western Switzerland

M. Brossard, R. Massung, L. Gern, 2000, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophila and Borrelia burgdorferi Genotypes in Ixodes scapularis Ticks from Pennsylvania

B. S. Schneider, R. Massung, Joshua W. Courtney, 2003, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Coxiella burnetii Infection of a Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) Found in Washington State

A. Akmajian, S. Raverty, Joshua S. Self, 2010, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Q Fever by the Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society

G. Martin, R. Massung, T. Gleeson, 2013 .