Robert P. Smith
Maine Medical Center
72 Papers
489 Citations
Robert P. Smith is an academic researcher from Maine Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ixodes scapularis & Lyme disease. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 64 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert P. Smith include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Papers
Clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of early Lyme disease in patients with microbiologically confirmed erythema migrans.
Robert P. Smith,Robert T. Schoen,Daniel W. Rahn,Vijay K. Sikand,John Nowakowski,Dennis Parenti,Mary S. Holman,David H. Persing,Allen C. Steere +8 more
TL;DR: 118 patients who acquired Lyme disease while under surveillance in a vaccine trial were described, with the traditional clinical presentation, an expanding erythematous rash with partial central clearing described in patients who usually had clinically manifest Lyme disease for several days.
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Abundance of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) After the Complete Removal of Deer from an Isolated Offshore Island, Endemic for Lyme Disease
TL;DR: Monitoring the abundance of vector ticks in response to the complete and permanent removal of the primary hosts of their reproductive stage on Monhegan found adult tick abundance on a deer-populated, reference island continued to gradually increase.
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Role of bird migration in the long-distance dispersal of Ixodes dammini, the vector of lyme disease
Robert P. Smith,Peter W. Rand,Eleanor H. Lacombe,Sara R. Morris,David W. Holmes,Diane A. Caporale +5 more
TL;DR: To evaluate the role of migratory birds in the long-distance dispersal of Ixodes dammini ticks and in the spread of Lyme disease, a 6-year study of migrating birds to an offshore New England island was conducted during 1989-1994.
Increased recognition of Powassan encephalitis in the United States, 1999-2005.
Steven R. Hinten,Geoffrey A. Beckett,Kathleen F. Gensheimer,Elizabeth Pritchard,Thomas M. Courtney,Stephen D. Sears,John M. Woytowicz,David G. Preston,Robert P. Smith,Peter W. Rand,Eleanor H. Lacombe,Mary S. Holman,Charles B. Lubelczyk,Patsy Tassler Kelso,Andrew P. Beelen,Mary Grace Stobierski,Mark J. Sotir,Susan Wong,Gregory D. Ebel,Olga I. Kosoy,Joseph Piesman,Grant L. Campbell,Anthony A. Marfin +22 more
TL;DR: Although POWV disease is probably under-recognized, and it causes significant morbidity, and thus is an additional tick-borne emerging infectious disease entity, the basis of prevention is personal protection from ticks and reduced exposure to peridomestic wild mammals.
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Diversity of Babesia infecting deer ticks (Ixodes dammini).
Philip M. Armstrong,Paula Katavolos,D A Caporale,Robert P. Smith,Andrew Spielman,S R Telford rd +5 more
TL;DR: To determine whether the presence of nonpathogenic piroplasms may confound field estimates of risk of Babesia microti infection, sporozoites infecting the salivary glands of deer ticks are identified by parallel microscopy and polymerase chain reaction assays.
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