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Tracy W. Smith
Researcher at Michigan State University
Publications - 6
Citations - 210
Tracy W. Smith is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ixodidae & Tick. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 200 citations.
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Effects of larval mosquitoes (Aedes triseriatus) and stemflow on microbial community dynamics in container habitats.
TL;DR: The dynamics of the microbial food sources for Aedes triseriatus larvae in microcosms were found to be strongly influenced by larval presence, and the total abundance of bacteria in water samples generally increased in response to larvae, including populations of cultivable, facultatively anaerobic bacteria.
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Geographic Distribution of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Michigan, with Emphasis on Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi
Edward D. Walker,Mary Grace Stobierski,Melvin L. Poplar,Tracy W. Smith,Alice J. Murphy,Peter C. Smith,Stephen M. Schmitt,Thomas M. Cooley,Cynthia M. Kramer +8 more
TL;DR: Examination of gut smears from dissections of 1,037 ticks of 13 species by indirect immunofluorescent assay, using murine monoclonal H9724 as the primary antibody, revealed that 11 of 175 I. scapularis were infected with Borrelia spp.
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Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in host-seeking ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from a Lyme disease endemic area in northern Michigan.
TL;DR: The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson, Schmid, Hyde, Steigerwalt & Brenner, was recovered from the guts of questing Ixodes scapularis Say adults and nymphs and adult Dermacentor variabilis (Say), collected in Menominee County, Michigan, in 1992.
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Bacterial density and survey of cultivable heterotrophs in the surface water of a freshwater marsh habitat of Anopheles quadrimaculatus larvae (Diptera: Culicidae).
TL;DR: In this article, surface water samples collected in September and October 1994 from a freshwater marsh habitat containing larval Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes were examined and the majority of 888 isolates were gram-positive rods (41%) followed by gram-negative rods (28%).
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Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Peromyscus leucopus in northeastern Wisconsin.
TL;DR: These findings document existence of an established population of I. scapularis and a focus of Lyme disease in northeastern Wisconsin.