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Jonas Reijniers; Vladimir S Ageyev; Michael Begon; Stephen Davis; Johan A P Heesterbeek; Herwig Leirs
A curve of thresholds governs plague epizootics in Central Asia.
Noelle I Samia; Vladimir S Ageyev; Michael Begon; Kung-Sik Chan; Hans Heesterbeek; Kyrre Linné Kausrud; Nils Chr Stenseth
Dynamics of the plague-wildlife-human system in Central Asia are controlled by two epidemiological thresholds.
Chris McCaig; Michael Begon; Rachel Norman; Carron Shankland
A symbolic investigation of superspreaders.

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2012: Jonas Reijniers; Vladimir S Ageyev; Michael Begon; Stephen Davis; Johan A P Heesterbeek; Herwig Leirs
A curve of thresholds governs plague epizootics in Central Asia.
Ecology letters 2012;15(6):554-60.
2011: Noelle I Samia; Vladimir S Ageyev; Michael Begon; Kung-Sik Chan; Hans Heesterbeek; Kyrre Linné Kausrud; Nils Chr Stenseth
Dynamics of the plague-wildlife-human system in Central Asia are controlled by two epidemiological thresholds.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011;108(35):14527-32.
2011: Chris McCaig; Michael Begon; Rachel Norman; Carron Shankland
A symbolic investigation of superspreaders.
Bulletin of mathematical biology 2011;73(4):777-94.
2011: Chris McCaig; Michael Begon; Rachel Norman; Carron Shankland
A rigorous approach to investigating common assumptions about disease transmission: Process algebra as an emerging modelling methodology for epidemiology.
Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften 2011;130(1):19-29.
2010: Eva R Kallio; Michael Begon; Heikki Henttonen; Esa Koskela; Tapio Mappes; Antti Vaheri; Olli Vapalahti
Hantavirus infections in fluctuating host populations: the role of maternal antibodies.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2010;277(1701):3783-91.
2010: Sandra Telfer; Xavier Lambin; Richard J Birtles; Pablo Beldomenico; Sarah Burthe; Steve Paterson; Michael Begon
Species interactions in a parasite community drive infection risk in a wildlife population.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2010;330(6001):243-6.
2010: Sarah Janette Burthe; Xavier Lambin; Sandra Telfer; Alex Douglas; Pablo Beldomenico; Andrew Smith; Michael Begon
Individual growth rates in natural field vole, Microtus agrestis, populations exhibiting cyclic population dynamics.
Oecologia 2010;162(3):653-61.
2010: Kyrre Linné Kausrud; Michael Begon; Tamara Ben Ari; Hildegunn Viljugrein; Jan Esper; Ulf Büntgen; Herwig Leirs; Claudia Junge; Bao Yang; Meixue Yang; Lei Xu; Nils Chr Stenseth
Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium.
BMC biology 2010;8():112.
2009: Pablo M Beldomenico; Sandra Telfer; Stephanie Gebert; Lukasz Lukomski; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
The vicious circle and infection intensity: the case of Trypanosoma microti in field vole populations.
Epidemics 2009;1(3):162-7.
2009: Pablo M Beldomenico; Sandra Telfer; L Lukomski; S Gebert; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
Host condition and individual risk of cowpox virus infection in natural animal populations: cause or effect?
Epidemiology and infection 2009;137(9):1295-301.
2009: Eva R Kallio; Michael Begon; Heikki Henttonen; Esa Koskela; Tapio Mappes; Antti Vaheri; Olli Vapalahti
Cyclic hantavirus epidemics in humans--predicted by rodent host dynamics.
Epidemics 2009;1(2):101-7.
2009: Michael Begon; Sandra Telfer; Matthew J Smith; Sarah Burthe; Steve Paterson; Xavier Lambin
Seasonal host dynamics drive the timing of recurrent epidemics in a wildlife population.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2009;276(1662):1603-10.
2009: Michael Begon; Sandra Telfer; Sarah Burthe; Xavier Lambin; Matthew J Smith; Steve Paterson
Effects of abundance on infection in natural populations: field voles and cowpox virus.
Epidemics 2009;1(1):35-46.
2008: Kim R Blasdell; Stuart D Becker; Jane Hurst; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett
Host range and genetic diversity of arenaviruses in rodents, United Kingdom.
Emerging infectious diseases 2008;14(9):1455-8.
2008: Pablo M Beldomenico; Sandra Telfer; Stephanie Gebert; Lukasz Lukomski; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
Azurocytes in wild field voles: factors associated with their occurrence.
EcoHealth 2008;5(3):317-27.
2008: Pablo M Beldomenico; Sandra Telfer; Stephanie Gebert; Lukasz Lukomski; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
The dynamics of health in wild field vole populations: a haematological perspective.
The Journal of animal ecology 2008;77(5):984-97.
2008: Pablo M Beldomenico; Sandra Telfer; Stephanie Gebert; Lukasz Lukomski; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
Poor condition and infection: a vicious circle in natural populations.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2008;275(1644):1753-9.
2008: Sandra Telfer; Richard J Birtles; Malcolm Bennett; Xavier Lambin; Steve Paterson; Michael Begon
Parasite interactions in natural populations: insights from longitudinal data.
Parasitology 2008;135(7):767-81.
2008: Sarah Burthe; Malcolm Bennett; Anja Kipar; Xavier Lambin; Andrew Smith; Sandra Telfer; Michael Begon
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium microti) in wild field vole populations.
Parasitology 2008;135(3):309-17.
2008: Matthew J Smith; Andrew White; Jonathan A Sherratt; Sandra Telfer; Michael Begon; Xavier Lambin
Disease effects on reproduction can cause population cycles in seasonal environments.
The Journal of animal ecology 2008;77(2):378-89.
2008: Nils Chr Stenseth; Bakyt B Atshabar; Michael Begon; Steven R Belmain; Eric Bertherat; Elisabeth Carniel; Kenneth Gage; Herwig Leirs; Lila Rahalison
Plague: past, present, and future.
PLoS medicine 2008;5(1):e3.
2008: Sarah Burthe; Sandra Telfer; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Andrew Smith; Xavier Lambin
Cowpox virus infection in natural field vole Microtus agrestis populations: significant negative impacts on survival.
The Journal of animal ecology 2008;77(1):110-9.
2007: Kyrre Linné Kausrud; Hildegunn Viljugrein; Arnoldo Frigessi; Michael Begon; Stephen Davis; Herwig Leirs; Vladimir Dubyanskiy; Nils Chr Stenseth
Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2007;274(1621):1963-9.
2007: Stephen Davis; Herwig Leirs; Hildegunn Viljugrein; Nils Chr Stenseth; Luc De Bruyn; Nikolay L Klassovskiy; Vladimir S Ageyev; Michael Begon
Empirical assessment of a threshold model for sylvatic plague.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 2007;4(15):649-57.
2007: Sandra Telfer; Helen E Clough; L Richard J Birtles; Malcolm Bennett; David Carslake; Sarah Helyar; Michael Begon
Ecological differences and coexistence in a guild of microparasites: Bartonella in wild rodents.
Ecology 2007;88(7):1841-9.
2007: Stephen Davis; Nikolay L Klassovskiy; Vladimir S Ageyev; B Suleimenov; B Atshabar; A Klassovskaya; M Bennett; Herwig Leirs; Michael Begon
Plague metapopulation dynamics in a natural reservoir: the burrow system as the unit of study.
Epidemiology and infection 2007;135(5):740-8.
2007: Sandra Telfer; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Kevin J Bown; Sarah Burthe; Xavier Lambin; G Telford; Richard J Birtles
Contrasting dynamics of Bartonella spp. in cyclic field vole populations: the impact of vector and host dynamics.
Parasitology 2007;134(Pt 3):413-25.
2007: Sandra Telfer; Malcolm Bennett; David Carslake; Sarah Helyar; Michael Begon
The dynamics of murid gammaherpesvirus 4 within wild, sympatric populations of bank voles and wood mice.
Journal of wildlife diseases 2007;43(1):32-9.
2006: Sarah Burthe; Sandra Telfer; Xavier Lambin; Malcolm Bennett; David Carslake; Andrew Smith; Michael Begon
Cowpox virus infection in natural field vole Microtus agrestis populations: delayed density dependence and individual risk.
The Journal of animal ecology 2006;75(6):1416-25.
2006: Andrew Smith; Sandra Telfer; Sarah Burthe; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
A role for vector-independent transmission in rodent trypanosome infection?
International journal for parasitology 2006;36(13):1359-66.
2006: Nils Chr Stenseth; Noelle I Samia; Hildegunn Viljugrein; Kyrre Linné Kausrud; Michael Begon; Stephen Davis; Herwig Leirs; Vladimir Dubyanskiy; Jan Esper; Vladimir S Ageyev; Nikolay L Klassovskiy; Sergey B Pole; Kung-Sik Chan
Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006;103(35):13110-5.
2006: Joanne Turner; Roger G Bowers; Michael Begon; Susan E Robinson; Nigel P French
A semi-stochastic model of the transmission of Escherichia coli O157 in a typical UK dairy herd: dynamics, sensitivity analysis and intervention/prevention strategies.
Journal of theoretical biology 2006;241(4):806-22.
2006: Matthew J Smith; Andrew White; Xavier Lambin; Jonathan A Sherratt; Michael Begon
Delayed density-dependent season length alone can lead to rodent population cycles.
The American naturalist 2006;167(5):695-704.
2006: David Carslake; Malcolm Bennett; Sarah Hazel; Sandra Telfer; Michael Begon
Inference of cowpox virus transmission rates between wild rodent host classes using space-time interaction.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2006;273(1588):775-82.
2006: Michael Begon
Epizootiologic parameters for plague in Kazakhstan.
Emerging infectious diseases 2006;12(2):268-73.
2006: Kevin J Bown; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Richard J Birtles; Sarah Burthe; Xavier Lambin; Sandra Telfer; Zerai Woldehiwet; Nicholas H Ogden
Sympatric Ixodes trianguliceps and Ixodes ricinus ticks feeding on field voles (Microtus agrestis): potential for increased risk of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the United Kingdom?
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2006;6(4):404-10.
2005: Andrew Smith; Sandra Telfer; Sarah Burthe; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
Trypanosomes, fleas and field voles: ecological dynamics of a host-vector--parasite interaction.
Parasitology 2005;131(Pt 3):355-65.
2005: Sandra Telfer; Kevin J Bown; R Sekules; Michael Begon; T Hayden; Richard J Birtles
Disruption of a host-parasite system following the introduction of an exotic host species.
Parasitology 2005;130(Pt 6):661-8.
2004: Stephen Davis; Michael Begon; Luc De Bruyn; Vladimir S Ageyev; Nikolay L Klassovskiy; Sergey B Pole; Hildegunn Viljugrein; Nils Chr Stenseth; Herwig Leirs
Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004;304(5671):736-8.
2004: Rachel Cavanagh; Xavier Lambin; Torbjørn Ergon; Malcolm Bennett; Isla M Graham; Dick Van Soolingen; Michael Begon
Disease dynamics in cyclic populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis): cowpox virus and vole tuberculosis (Mycobacterium microti).
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271(1541):859-67.
2004: Kevin J Bown; Malcolm Bennet; Michael Begon
Flea-borne Bartonella grahamii and Bartonella taylorii in bank voles.
Emerging infectious diseases 2004;10(4):684-7.
2003: Joanne Turner; Michael Begon; Roger G Bowers; Nigel P French
A model appropriate to the transmission of a human food-borne pathogen in a multigroup managed herd.
Preventive veterinary medicine 2003;57(4):175-98.
2003: Joanne Turner; Michael Begon; Roger G Bowers
Modelling pathogen transmission: the interrelationship between local and global approaches.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2003;270(1510):105-12.
2003: Kim Blasdell; Christine M McCracken; Andy Morris; Anthony A Nash; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; James P Stewart
The wood mouse is a natural host for Murid herpesvirus 4.
The Journal of general virology 2003;84(Pt 1):111-3.
2003: Kevin J Bown; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Zerai Woldehiwet; Nicholas H Ogden
Seasonal dynamics of Anaplasma phagocytophila in a rodent-tick (Ixodes trianguliceps) system, United Kingdom.
Emerging infectious diseases 2003;9(1):63-70.
2002: Kevin J Bown; B A Ellis; Richard J Birtles; Lance A Durden; Joanne Lello; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett
New world origins for haemoparasites infecting United Kingdom grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), as revealed by phylogenetic analysis of bartonella infecting squirrel populations in England and the United States.
Epidemiology and infection 2002;129(3):647-53.
2002: Rachel Cavanagh; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Torbjørn Ergon; Isla M Graham; Petra E W De Haas; C Anthony Hart; Marjan Koedam; Kristin Kremer; Xavier Lambin; Paul Roholl; Dick van Soolingen Dv
Mycobacterium microti infection (vole tuberculosis) in wild rodent populations.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2002;40(9):3281-5.
2002: Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett; Roger G Bowers; Nigel P French; Sarah Hazel; J Turner
A clarification of transmission terms in host-microparasite models: numbers, densities and areas.
Epidemiology and infection 2002;129(1):147-53.
2002: Harry Noyes; P Ambrose; F Barker; Michael Begon; M Bennet; Kevin J Bown; Stephen J Kemp
Host specificity of Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) species: evidence that bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) carry only one T. (H.) evotomys 18S rRNA genotype but wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) carry at least two polyphyletic parasites.
Parasitology 2002;124(Pt 2):185-90.
2001: Richard J Birtles; Sarah Hazel; Malcolm Bennett; Kevin J Bown; Didier Raoult; Michael Begon
Longitudinal monitoring of the dynamics of infections due to Bartonella species in UK woodland rodents.
Epidemiology and infection 2001;126(2):323-9.
2001: O N Bjørnstad; S M Sait; N C Stenseth; D J Thompson; Michael Begon
The impact of specialized enemies on the dimensionality of host dynamics.
Nature 2001;409(6823):1001-6.
2000: Sarah Hazel; Malcolm Bennett; J Chantrey; Kevin J Bown; Rachel Cavanagh; T R Jones; D Baxby; Michael Begon
A longitudinal study of an endemic disease in its wildlife reservoir: cowpox and wild rodents.
Epidemiology and infection 2000;124(3):551-62.
2000: S M Sait; W C Liu; D J Thompson; H C Godfray; Michael Begon
Invasion sequence affects predator-prey dynamics in a multi-species interaction.
Nature 2000;405(6785):448-50.
2000: Richard J Birtles; Sarah Hazel; Kevin J Bown; Didier Raoult; Michael Begon; Malcolm Bennett
Subtyping of uncultured bartonellae using sequence comparison of 16 S/23 S rRNA intergenic spacer regions amplified directly from infected blood.
Molecular and cellular probes 2000;14(2):79-87.
1999: Michael Begon; Sarah Hazel; D Baxby; Kevin J Bown; Rachel Cavanagh; J Chantrey; T Jones; Malcolm Bennett
Transmission dynamics of a zoonotic pathogen within and between wildlife host species.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1999;266(1432):1939-45.
1999: M A Gilliver; Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon; Sarah Hazel; C Anthony Hart
Antibiotic resistance found in wild rodents.
Nature 1999;401(6750):233-4.
1999: Rachel Norman; Roger G Bowers; Michael Begon; Peter J Hudson
Persistence of tick-borne virus in the presence of multiple host species: tick reservoirs and parasite mediated competition.
Journal of theoretical biology 1999;200(1):111-8.
1999: DM Tompkins; Michael Begon
Parasites can regulate wildlife populations.
Parasitology today (Personal ed.) 1999;15(8):311-3.
1999: J Chantrey; H Meyer; D Baxby; Michael Begon; Kevin J Bown; Sarah Hazel; T Jones; W I Montgomery; Malcolm Bennett
Cowpox: reservoir hosts and geographic range.
Epidemiology and infection 1999;122(3):455-60.
1998: B Reade; Roger G Bowers; Michael Begon; Rosalind M Gaskell
A model of disease and vaccination for infections with acute and chronic phases.
Journal of theoretical biology 1998;190(4):355-67.
1997: S M Feore; Malcolm Bennett; J Chantrey; T Jones; D Baxby; Michael Begon
The effect of cowpox virus infection on fecundity in bank voles and wood mice.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1997;264(1387):1457-61.
1997: Malcolm Bennett; Michael Begon
Virus zoonoses--a long-term overview.
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases 1997;20(2):101-9.
1997: Malcolm Bennett; A J Crouch; Michael Begon; B Duffy; S Feore; Rosalind M Gaskell; D F Kelly; Christine M McCracken; L Vicary; D Baxby
Cowpox in British voles and mice.
Journal of comparative pathology 1997;116(1):35-44.
1996: A White; Roger G Bowers; Michael Begon
Red/blue chaotic power spectra.
Nature 1996;381(6579):198.
1996: A White; Michael Begon; Roger G Bowers
Host-pathogen systems in a spatially patchy environment.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1996;263(1368):325-32.
1994: Roger G Bowers; Michael Boots; Michael Begon
Life-history trade-offs and the evolution of pathogen resistance: competition between host strains.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1994;257(1350):247-53.
1994: Michael Begon; Roger G Bowers
Host-host-pathogen models and microbial pest control: the effect of host self regulation.
Journal of theoretical biology 1994;169(3):275-87.
1994: Rachel Norman; Michael Begon; Roger G Bowers
The population dynamics of microparasites and vertebrate hosts: the importance of immunity and recovery.
Theoretical population biology 1994;46(1):96-119.
1993: G A Parker; Michael Begon
Sperm competition games: sperm size and number under gametic control.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1993;253(1338):255-62.
1991: Roger G Bowers; Michael Begon
A host-host-pathogen model with free-living infective stages, applicable to microbial pest control.
Journal of theoretical biology 1991;148(3):305-29.