Publications

Brown LD, Maness R, Hall C, Gibson JD. 2021. Reactive oxygen species-mediated immunity against bacterial infection in the gut of cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis). Insect Biochem Mol Biol. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103620 (PMID: 34216781)

Durden LA, Bermúdez S, Vargas GA, Sanjur BE, Gillen L, Brown LD, Greiman SE, Eremeeva ME. 2020. Fleas (Siphonaptera) parasitizing peridomestic and indigenous mammals in Panamá and screening of selected fleas for vector-borne bacterial pathogens. J Med Entomol. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa253.
Brown LD. 2019. Immunity of fleas (Order Siphonaptera). Dev Comp Immunol. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2019.03.019.
Brown LD, Shapiro LLM, Thompson GA, Estévez-Lao TY, Hillyer JF. 2019. Transstadial immune activation in a mosquito: adults that emerge from infected larvae have stronger antibacterial activity in their hemocoel yet increased susceptibility to malaria infection. Ecol Evol. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5192.
Brown LD, Thompson GA, Hillyer JF. 2018. Transstadial transmission of larval hemocoelic infection negatively affects development and adult female longevity in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. J Invertebr Pathol. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2017.10.008. (PMID: 29111355)
Healy SP, Brown LD, Hagstrom MR, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2017. Effect of Rickettsia felis Strain Variation on Infection, Transmission, and Fitness in the Cat Flea (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). J Med Entomol. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx046. (PMID: 28399259)
Bland DM*, Brown LD*, Jarrett CO, Hinnebusch BJ, Macaluso KR (*authors contributed equally). 2017. Methods in Flea Research. BEI Resources. (https://www.beiresources.org/Portals/2/VectorResources/Methods%20in%20Flea%20Research.pdf)
Brown LD, Macaluso KR. 2016. Rickettsia felis, an Emerging Flea-Borne Rickettsiosis. Curr Trop Med Rep. (PMID: 27340613)
Brown LD, Banajee KH, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2016. Transmission mechanisms of an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen. Parasit Vectors. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1511-8. (PMID: 27117813)
Brown LD, Christofferson RC, Banajee KH, Del Piero F, Foil LD, Macaluso KR. 2015. Cofeeding intra- and interspecific transmission of an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen. Mol Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.13403. (PMID: 26414611)
Garcés-Restrepo M, Giraldo A, Carr JL, Brown LD. 2013. Turtle ectoparasites from the Pacific coastal region of Colombia. Biota Neotrop. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032013000300009)