Publications
2018
Fleshman, A. C., K. E. Mullins, J. W. Sahl, C. M. Hepp, N. C. Nieto, K. Wiggins, H. Hornstra O’Neil, D. Paris, S. Dittrich, P. Newton, A. L. Richards, T. Pearson. 2018. Comparative pan-genomic analyses of Orientia tsutsugamushi demonstrates the unprecedented extent to which gene duplication and divergence drive genomic diversity.
2017
Sage, K. M., T. L. Johnson, M. B. Teglas, N. C. Nieto, and T. G. Schwan. 2017. Ecological Niche Modeling and Distribution of Ornithodoros hermsi Associated with Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Western North America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Cluckey, T. G., N. C. Nieto, B. M. Rodoni, and T. Traustadóttir. 2017. Preliminary evidence that age and sex affect exercise-induced hTERT expression. Experimental Gerontology 96: 7-11
Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, K. N. Maloney, C. R. Tracy, N. C. Nieto, M. B. Teglas, K. W. Hunter, S DuPre, C. M. Geinger, and M. W. Tuma. 2017. Comparison of current methods for the detection of chronic Mycoplasmal URTD in wild populations of the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 53(1): 91-101.
Barragan, V, N. C. Nieto, P. Keim, and T. Pearson. 2017. Meta-analysis to estimate the load of Leptospira exrcreted in urine: beyond rats as important sources of transmission in low-income communities. BMC Research Notes 10:71 DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2384-4
2016
Jefferson, J. M., M. Schumacher, K. Horn, D. M. Lee, J. Terriquez, D. M. Engelthaler, M. Peoples, J. Corrigan, A. Replogle, N. Souders, K. K. Komatsu, and N. C. Nieto. 2016. Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Outbreak Among a High School Football Team at an Outdoor Education Camping Trip, Arizona, 2014. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene epub; ahead of print.
Done, AJ, Matthew J Gage, Ph.D.; Nathan C Nieto, Ph.D.; Tinna Traustadóttir, PhD Exercise-Induced Nrf2-signaling is Impaired in Aging
Nieto, N. C. and D. J. Salkeld. 2016. Epidemiology and genetic diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Gaither, M., M. Schumacher, N. C. Nieto, J. Corrigan, H. Murray, and M. Mauer. 2016. Where are the Ticks? Solving the mystery of Tickborne relapsing fever outbreak at a youth camp. Journal of Environmental Health 78(8): 8-11.
2015
Salkeld, D. J., N. C. Nieto, P. Carbajales-Dale, M. Carbajales- Dale, S. S. Cinkovich, Eric F. Lambin. (2015) Disease risk and landscape attributes of tick-borne Borrelia pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. PLoS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134812
Jones, J, M. Schumacher, M. Peoples, N. Souders, K. Horn, L. Fox, M. Scott, S. Brady, J. Weiss, K. Komatsu, and N. C. Nieto. (2015) Tick-borne relapsing fever outbreak at an Outdoor education camp – Arizona, 2014. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC 64(23): 651-652
2014
Nieto, N. C. and M. B. Teglas. 2014. Relapsing fever group Borrelia in southern California rodents. Journal of Medical Entomology 51(5): 1029-1034
Salkeld, D. J., S. Cinkovich, and N. C. Nieto. 2014. Tick-borne Pathogens in Northwestern California, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases 20(3): 493-494
2013
Keehn, J. E., N. C. Nieto, C. R. Tracy, C. M. Gienger and C. R. Feldman. 2013. Evolution on a desert island: body size divergence between the reptiles of Nevada’s Anaho Island and the mainland around Pyramid Lake. Journal of Zoology 291 (2013) 269–278
2012
Coker, M. R., W. M. Rauw, N. C. Nieto, D. Thain, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. Hematologic and IgG responses of heifers experimentally infected with the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 41(3): 344-352
Nieto, N. C., K. Khan, G. Uhllah, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. The emergence and maintenance of vector-borne diseases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Frontiers in Systems Biology 3: 250. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00250
Nieto, N. C., M. B. Teglas, K. M. Stewart, T. Wasley, and P. L. Wolff. 2012. Detection of relapsing fever spirochetes (Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia coriaceae) in free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Nevada, United States. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 12(2): 99-105
J. K. Gorman, B. R. Hoar, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, 2012. Evaluation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in experimentally inoculated sheep and determination of Anaplasma spp seroprevalence in 8 free-ranging sheep flocks in California and Oregon. American Journal of Veterinary Research 73(7): 1029-1034
2011
Teglas, M. B., S. Mapes, E. Hodzic, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Co-infection of Ornithodoros coriaceus with the relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia coriaceae, and the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Entomology 25(3): 337-343
Foley, J. E., D. Rejmanek, K. Fleer, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Nidicolous ticks of small mammals in Anaplasma phagocytophilum-enzootic sites in northern California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 75-80
Rejmanek, D., N. C. Nieto, N. Barash, and J. E. Foley. 2011. Temporal patterns of tick-borne granulocytic anaplasmosis in California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 81-87
Foley, J. E. and N. C. Nieto. 2011. The ecology of tick transmitted infections in the redwood chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 88-93
2010
Nieto, N. C., S. Leonhard, J. E. Foley, R. S. Lane. 2010. Coinfection of western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) and other sciurid rodents with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(1): 291-296
Nieto, N. C., E. Holmes, and J. E. Foley. 2010. Survival of immature Ixodes pacificus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) estimated using field-placed enclosures. Journal of Vector Ecology 35(1): 43-49
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Madigan, and J. E. Foley. 2010. The dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) is susceptible to infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum originating form woodrats, horses and dogs. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(3): 810-817
Gorman, J. K., M. Gabriel, N. J. MacLachlan, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, and S. J. Spier. 2010. Pilot immunization of mice infected with an equine strain of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Veterinary Therapeutics 11(1): E1-E8
Hunter, J. E., M.J. Mazurek, B. O’Connor, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley. 2010. Some ectoparasites and pathogens of the Point Arena mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra). Northwest Naturalist 91: 225-229
2009
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Foley, J. B. Bettaso, R. S. Lane. 2009. The role of reptiles in the ecology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of granulocytic anaplasmosis. Journal of Parasitology 95(5): 1165-1170
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Foley, T. Yuan, and S. J. Spier. 2009. A mouse model of internal abscesses associated with equine-origin Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. American Journal of Veterinary Research 70(2): 1-6
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, P. Foley, A. F. Barbet. 2009. Antigen Diversity in the Parasitic Bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum Arises from Selectively-represented, Spatially Clustered Functional Pseudogenes. PLoS One 4(12): e8265
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, and P. Foley. 2009. Emergence of tick-borne granulocytic anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) associated with habitat type and change in coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and peripheral ecosystems. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 81(6): 1132-1140
Foley, J.E., N. C. Nieto, R. Massung, J. Madigan, and R. N. Brown. 2009. There are multiple distinct ecologically relevant strains or “genospecies” of Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Emerging Infectious Disease 15(5): 842-843
Chomel, B. B., J. B. Henn, R. W. Kasten, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, S. Papageorgiou, C. Allen, J. E. Koehler. 2009. Dogs are more permissive than cats or guinea pigs to experimental infection with a human isolate of Bartonella rochalimae. Veterinary Research 40:27-35
2008
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. 2008. Evaluation of squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae) as ecologically significant hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in California. Journal of Medical Entomology 45(4): 763-769
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. September 2008. Tick-borne Coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus complex ticks, humans, livestock, and wildlife. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 9(1): 93-102
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. 2008. Reservoir competence of the redwood chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys) for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 9(6): 573-577
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, J. Adjemian, H. Dabritz, and R. N. Brown. 2008. Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in small mammal hosts of Ixodes sp. ticks in the western US. Emerging Infectious Disease 14(7): 1147-1150
Foley, J., N. C. Nieto, J. E. Madigan, and J. Sykes. 2008. Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains in the western US may comprise a genospecies group. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1149: 94-97
Hoar, B. R., N. C. Nieto, A.F. Barbet, D.M. Rhodes, J.E. Foley. 2008. Sequential coinfection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale in cattle. American Journal of Veterinary Research 69(9): 1171-1178
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, P. Foley, and M. B. Teglas. 2008. Co-phylogenetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and its vectors, Ixodes spp. ticks. Experimental and Applied Acarology 45: 155-177
2007
Nieto, N. C., M. A. Camman, J. E. Foley, J. O. Reiss. 2007. Disease prevalence and severity associated with integumentary and cloacal parasites in Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora aurora) tadpoles. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 78: 61-71
Nieto, N. C., Foley, P., Calder, L., Dabritz, H., Adjemian, J. C., Conrad, P. A., Foley, J. E. 2007. Vectors and vector-borne pathogens in the rodent guild of the Morro Bay area of Monterey County, California. Journal of Medical Entomology 44(2): 328-335
Foley, J. E., Nieto, N. C., Clueit, S., Foley, P., Nicholson, W., and Brown, R. N. 2007. Exposure to zoonotic rickettsial pathogens in northern flying squirrels, Glaucomys sabrinus, in northern California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(4): 684-689
Fleshman, A. C., K. E. Mullins, J. W. Sahl, C. M. Hepp, N. C. Nieto, K. Wiggins, H. Hornstra O’Neil, D. Paris, S. Dittrich, P. Newton, A. L. Richards, T. Pearson. 2018. Comparative pan-genomic analyses of Orientia tsutsugamushi demonstrates the unprecedented extent to which gene duplication and divergence drive genomic diversity.
2017
Sage, K. M., T. L. Johnson, M. B. Teglas, N. C. Nieto, and T. G. Schwan. 2017. Ecological Niche Modeling and Distribution of Ornithodoros hermsi Associated with Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Western North America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Cluckey, T. G., N. C. Nieto, B. M. Rodoni, and T. Traustadóttir. 2017. Preliminary evidence that age and sex affect exercise-induced hTERT expression. Experimental Gerontology 96: 7-11
Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, K. N. Maloney, C. R. Tracy, N. C. Nieto, M. B. Teglas, K. W. Hunter, S DuPre, C. M. Geinger, and M. W. Tuma. 2017. Comparison of current methods for the detection of chronic Mycoplasmal URTD in wild populations of the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 53(1): 91-101.
Barragan, V, N. C. Nieto, P. Keim, and T. Pearson. 2017. Meta-analysis to estimate the load of Leptospira exrcreted in urine: beyond rats as important sources of transmission in low-income communities. BMC Research Notes 10:71 DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2384-4
2016
Jefferson, J. M., M. Schumacher, K. Horn, D. M. Lee, J. Terriquez, D. M. Engelthaler, M. Peoples, J. Corrigan, A. Replogle, N. Souders, K. K. Komatsu, and N. C. Nieto. 2016. Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Outbreak Among a High School Football Team at an Outdoor Education Camping Trip, Arizona, 2014. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene epub; ahead of print.
Done, AJ, Matthew J Gage, Ph.D.; Nathan C Nieto, Ph.D.; Tinna Traustadóttir, PhD Exercise-Induced Nrf2-signaling is Impaired in Aging
Nieto, N. C. and D. J. Salkeld. 2016. Epidemiology and genetic diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Gaither, M., M. Schumacher, N. C. Nieto, J. Corrigan, H. Murray, and M. Mauer. 2016. Where are the Ticks? Solving the mystery of Tickborne relapsing fever outbreak at a youth camp. Journal of Environmental Health 78(8): 8-11.
2015
Salkeld, D. J., N. C. Nieto, P. Carbajales-Dale, M. Carbajales- Dale, S. S. Cinkovich, Eric F. Lambin. (2015) Disease risk and landscape attributes of tick-borne Borrelia pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. PLoS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134812
Jones, J, M. Schumacher, M. Peoples, N. Souders, K. Horn, L. Fox, M. Scott, S. Brady, J. Weiss, K. Komatsu, and N. C. Nieto. (2015) Tick-borne relapsing fever outbreak at an Outdoor education camp – Arizona, 2014. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC 64(23): 651-652
2014
Nieto, N. C. and M. B. Teglas. 2014. Relapsing fever group Borrelia in southern California rodents. Journal of Medical Entomology 51(5): 1029-1034
Salkeld, D. J., S. Cinkovich, and N. C. Nieto. 2014. Tick-borne Pathogens in Northwestern California, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases 20(3): 493-494
2013
Keehn, J. E., N. C. Nieto, C. R. Tracy, C. M. Gienger and C. R. Feldman. 2013. Evolution on a desert island: body size divergence between the reptiles of Nevada’s Anaho Island and the mainland around Pyramid Lake. Journal of Zoology 291 (2013) 269–278
2012
Coker, M. R., W. M. Rauw, N. C. Nieto, D. Thain, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. Hematologic and IgG responses of heifers experimentally infected with the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 41(3): 344-352
Nieto, N. C., K. Khan, G. Uhllah, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. The emergence and maintenance of vector-borne diseases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Frontiers in Systems Biology 3: 250. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00250
Nieto, N. C., M. B. Teglas, K. M. Stewart, T. Wasley, and P. L. Wolff. 2012. Detection of relapsing fever spirochetes (Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia coriaceae) in free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Nevada, United States. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 12(2): 99-105
J. K. Gorman, B. R. Hoar, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, 2012. Evaluation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in experimentally inoculated sheep and determination of Anaplasma spp seroprevalence in 8 free-ranging sheep flocks in California and Oregon. American Journal of Veterinary Research 73(7): 1029-1034
2011
Teglas, M. B., S. Mapes, E. Hodzic, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Co-infection of Ornithodoros coriaceus with the relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia coriaceae, and the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Entomology 25(3): 337-343
Foley, J. E., D. Rejmanek, K. Fleer, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Nidicolous ticks of small mammals in Anaplasma phagocytophilum-enzootic sites in northern California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 75-80
Rejmanek, D., N. C. Nieto, N. Barash, and J. E. Foley. 2011. Temporal patterns of tick-borne granulocytic anaplasmosis in California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 81-87
Foley, J. E. and N. C. Nieto. 2011. The ecology of tick transmitted infections in the redwood chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 88-93
2010
Nieto, N. C., S. Leonhard, J. E. Foley, R. S. Lane. 2010. Coinfection of western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) and other sciurid rodents with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(1): 291-296
Nieto, N. C., E. Holmes, and J. E. Foley. 2010. Survival of immature Ixodes pacificus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) estimated using field-placed enclosures. Journal of Vector Ecology 35(1): 43-49
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Madigan, and J. E. Foley. 2010. The dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) is susceptible to infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum originating form woodrats, horses and dogs. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(3): 810-817
Gorman, J. K., M. Gabriel, N. J. MacLachlan, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, and S. J. Spier. 2010. Pilot immunization of mice infected with an equine strain of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Veterinary Therapeutics 11(1): E1-E8
Hunter, J. E., M.J. Mazurek, B. O’Connor, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley. 2010. Some ectoparasites and pathogens of the Point Arena mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra). Northwest Naturalist 91: 225-229
2009
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Foley, J. B. Bettaso, R. S. Lane. 2009. The role of reptiles in the ecology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of granulocytic anaplasmosis. Journal of Parasitology 95(5): 1165-1170
Nieto, N. C., J. E. Foley, T. Yuan, and S. J. Spier. 2009. A mouse model of internal abscesses associated with equine-origin Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. American Journal of Veterinary Research 70(2): 1-6
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, P. Foley, A. F. Barbet. 2009. Antigen Diversity in the Parasitic Bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum Arises from Selectively-represented, Spatially Clustered Functional Pseudogenes. PLoS One 4(12): e8265
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, and P. Foley. 2009. Emergence of tick-borne granulocytic anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) associated with habitat type and change in coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and peripheral ecosystems. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 81(6): 1132-1140
Foley, J.E., N. C. Nieto, R. Massung, J. Madigan, and R. N. Brown. 2009. There are multiple distinct ecologically relevant strains or “genospecies” of Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Emerging Infectious Disease 15(5): 842-843
Chomel, B. B., J. B. Henn, R. W. Kasten, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, S. Papageorgiou, C. Allen, J. E. Koehler. 2009. Dogs are more permissive than cats or guinea pigs to experimental infection with a human isolate of Bartonella rochalimae. Veterinary Research 40:27-35
2008
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. 2008. Evaluation of squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae) as ecologically significant hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in California. Journal of Medical Entomology 45(4): 763-769
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. September 2008. Tick-borne Coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus complex ticks, humans, livestock, and wildlife. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 9(1): 93-102
Nieto, N. C. and J. E. Foley. 2008. Reservoir competence of the redwood chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys) for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 9(6): 573-577
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, J. Adjemian, H. Dabritz, and R. N. Brown. 2008. Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in small mammal hosts of Ixodes sp. ticks in the western US. Emerging Infectious Disease 14(7): 1147-1150
Foley, J., N. C. Nieto, J. E. Madigan, and J. Sykes. 2008. Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains in the western US may comprise a genospecies group. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1149: 94-97
Hoar, B. R., N. C. Nieto, A.F. Barbet, D.M. Rhodes, J.E. Foley. 2008. Sequential coinfection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale in cattle. American Journal of Veterinary Research 69(9): 1171-1178
Foley, J. E., N. C. Nieto, P. Foley, and M. B. Teglas. 2008. Co-phylogenetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and its vectors, Ixodes spp. ticks. Experimental and Applied Acarology 45: 155-177
2007
Nieto, N. C., M. A. Camman, J. E. Foley, J. O. Reiss. 2007. Disease prevalence and severity associated with integumentary and cloacal parasites in Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora aurora) tadpoles. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 78: 61-71
Nieto, N. C., Foley, P., Calder, L., Dabritz, H., Adjemian, J. C., Conrad, P. A., Foley, J. E. 2007. Vectors and vector-borne pathogens in the rodent guild of the Morro Bay area of Monterey County, California. Journal of Medical Entomology 44(2): 328-335
Foley, J. E., Nieto, N. C., Clueit, S., Foley, P., Nicholson, W., and Brown, R. N. 2007. Exposure to zoonotic rickettsial pathogens in northern flying squirrels, Glaucomys sabrinus, in northern California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(4): 684-689
