Sam R. Telford III
Professor
Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health
Infectious Diseases
Email: sam.telford@tufts.edu
Dept. URL: http://www.tufts.edu/vet/dbs/infectious_diseases/
Education
SD - Harvard University - 1990
MS - Harvard University - 1987
BA - Johns Hopkins University - 1983
General Research Interest
Research Ecology and epidemiology of vector-borne infections, particularly Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, tickborne encephalitis, and tularemia; wildlife parasitology.
Research Sponsor Interest
- Federally Funded Research
Selected Research Projects
Ecology and epidemiology of tularemia; phylogeography of Babesia microti; vector-pathogen interactions of deer tick-transmitted infections.
Research and Clinical Interests
biosafety and biocontainment
arbovirology
wildlife parasitology
tropical medicine and diagnostic parasitology
Selected Publications
Armstrong PM, Rosa Brunet L, Spielman A, Telford SR III. Risk of human Lyme disease in a Lone Star tick-infested community. Bull. WHO 2001; 9:916-925.
Ebel GD, Spielman A, Telford SR III. Molecular phylogeny of orth American Powassan virus. J. Gen. Virol. 2001; 82:1657-1665.
Telford SR III. Deer tick transmitted zoonoses in the eastern United States. In Conservation Medicine, eds. Tabor G, Pearl M, Reed M, Ostfeld R, Aguirre A, Atz J, House C. Oxford University Press, NY. In press.