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Kristle Krichbaum

Kristle Krichbaum

Graduate Student until end 2007, now elsewhere

Research while at CIDD

How parasite infections affect host disease dynamics. Investigation of competition between parasites within hosts, using a mixture of lab work, fieldwork and modeling.

Study systems

Parasites of bats in Puerto Rico: Greater Antillean Ghost faced bat (Mormoops blainvilli); Sooty Mustached Bat (Pteronotus quadridens); Greater Antillean Long-tongued Bat (Monophyllus redmani)

Intestinal nematodes (Strongyloides robustus) in flying squirels in the U.S.A. (Glaucomys sabrinus and G. volans)

Intestinal nematodes (Ascaris suum) in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus)

Publications

Krichbaum KL, Perkins SE & Gannon M. Parasitic infection of tropical bats of Puerto Rico. submitted

Dobson A, Cattadori I, Holt RD, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F, Krichbaum K, Rohr J, Perkins SE, Hudson PJ (2006) Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: the importance of biological diversity to human health. PLoS Medicine 3