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Katherine McClure

USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
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From superspreaders to disease hotspots: linking transmission across hosts and space

SH Paull, S Song, KM McClure… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Since the identification and imprisonment of “Typhoid Mary”, a woman who infected at least
47 people with typhoid in the early 1900s, epidemiologists have recognized that “…

Attitudes of emergency department patients and visitors regarding emergency exception from informed consent in resuscitation research, community consultation, and …

KB McClure, NM DeIorio, MD Gunnels… - Academic …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To assess public views on emergency exception to informed consent in
resuscitation research, public awareness of such studies, and effective methods of community …

Generation of LexA enhancer-trap lines in Drosophila by an international scholastic network

…, J Huang, H Kilby, E Markel, K McClure… - G3: Genes …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Conditional gene regulation in Drosophila through binary expression systems like the LexA-LexAop
system provides a superb tool for investigating gene and tissue function. To …

Land Use and Larval Habitat Increase Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance in Lowland Hawaii

KM McClure, C Lawrence… - Journal of medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Vector abundance plays a key role in transmission of mosquito-borne disease. In Hawaii,
Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae), the Asian tiger mosquito, has been implicated …

Confronting the ethical challenges to informed consent in emergency medicine research

…, CX Johnson, KB McClure… - Academic …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine believes that protection of human subjects
is vital in emergency medicine research and that, whenever feasible, informed consent is at …

Variation in host home range size decreases rabies vaccination effectiveness by increasing the spatial spread of rabies virus

KM McClure, AT Gilbert, RB Chipman… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Animal movement influences the spatial spread of directly transmitted wildlife disease
through host–host contact structure. Wildlife disease hosts vary in home range‐associated …

Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes

KM McClure, G Bastille‐Rousseau… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oral baiting is used to deliver vaccines to wildlife to prevent, control, and eliminate infectious
diseases. A central challenge is how to spatially distribute baits to maximize encounters by …

Temporal variation in bird and resource abundance across an elevational gradient in Hawaii

…, BL Woodworth, RJ Camp, K Turner, K McClure… - The Auk, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We documented patterns of nectar availability and nectarivorous bird abundance over ∼3
years at nine study sites across an 1,800-m elevational gradient on Hawaii Island to …

The role of native and introduced birds in transmission of avian malaria in Hawaii

KM McClure, RC Fleischer, AM Kilpatrick - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of nonnative species and reductions in native biodiversity have resulted in
substantial changes in vector and host communities globally, but the consequences for …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the Efficiency of Local Rabies Vaccination Strategies for Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in an Urban Setting

…, NT Gorman, KM McClure… - The Journal of …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
Raccoon rabies virus (RRV) has been managed using multiple vaccination strategies,
including oral rabies vaccination and trap-vaccinate-release (TVR). Identifying a rabies …