All Outputs (3)

Genomic Characterisation of Novel Veterinary Pathogens: Anaplasma & Bartonella species (2025)
Thesis

Background: Bartonella sp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Ap) are vector-borne
bacterial pathogens with significant veterinary and public health implications. While
Bartonella species persist in the bloodstream of various mammals causing long term... Read More about Genomic Characterisation of Novel Veterinary Pathogens: Anaplasma & Bartonella species.

The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland (2025)
Thesis

Ticks are an ecosystem disservice in urban greenspaces, with the potential to transmit diseases. The characteristics of an urban greenspace can impact the hazard of ticks and tick-borne pathogens both within a greenspace and in the surrounding area.... Read More about The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland.

Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions (2023)
Thesis

Forest trees have been increasingly threatened by invasive pathogens,
endangering associated biodiversity, and reducing ecosystems. Such an alien pathogen,
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, has had considerable impacts on the common ash tree
(Fraxinus exce... Read More about Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions.