I maintain a broad interest in population ecology, wildlife disease and zoonotic disease. My specific interests include host-pathogen interactions, the dynamics of disease in fragmented populations, landscape epidemiology and the threat posed to animal and human populations by disease. I believe that combining ecological studies with analyses of host and pathogen genetic variability has considerable potential for understanding disease transmission processes.

Rakotonanahary, RJL., Harrison, TA., Maina, AN., Jiang, J., Richards, AL., Rajerison, M. & Telfer, S. (2017). 'Molecular and serological evidence of flea-associated typhus group and spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Madagascar'. Parasites & Vectors, vol 10, 125. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1186/S13071-017-2061-4 [ONLINE] AURA: MOLECULAR_AND_SEROLOGICAL_EVIDENCE_OF_FLEA_ASSOCIATED_TYPHUS... Kreppel, KS., Telfer, S., Rajerison, M., Morse, A. & Baylis, M. (2016). 'Effect of temperature and relative humidity on the development times and survival of Synopsyllus fonquerniei and Xenopsylla cheopis, the flea vectors of plague in Madagascar'. Parasites & Vectors, vol 9, 1366. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1186/S13071-016-1366-Z [ONLINE] AURA: ART_3A10.1186_2FS13071_016_1366_Z.PDF Davis, S., Abbasi, B., Shah, S., Telfer, S. & Begon, M. (2015). 'Spatial analyses of wildlife contact networks'. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol 12, no. 102, pp. 1-11. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1098/RSIF.2014.1004 [ONLINE] AURA: SPATIAL_ANALYSES_OF_WILDLIFE_CONTACT_NETWORKS.PDF Kreppel, KS., Caminade, C., Telfer, S., Rajerison, M., Rahalison, L., Morse, A. & Baylis, M. (2014). 'A Non-Stationary Relationship between Global Climate Phenomena and Human Plague Incidence in Madagascar'. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol 8, no. 10, e3155, pp. 1-13. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PNTD.0003155 Kipar, A., Burthe, SJ., Hetzel, U., Rokia, MA., Telfer, S., Lambin, X., Birtles, RJ., Begon, M. & Bennett, M. (2014). 'Mycobacterium microti Tuberculosis in Its Maintenance Host, the Field Vole (Microtus agrestis): Characterization of the Disease and Possible Routes of Transmission'. Veterinary pathology, vol 51, no. 5, pp. 903-914. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1177/0300985813513040 Vaumourin, E., Vourc'h, G., Telfer, S., Lambin, X., Salih, D., Seitzer, U., Morand, S., Charbonnel, N., Vayssier-Taussat, M. & Gasqui, P. (2014). 'To be or not to be associated: power study of four statistical modeling approaches to identify parasite associations in cross-sectional studies'. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, vol 4, 62. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.3389/FCIMB.2014.00062 [ONLINE] AURA: FCIMB_04_00062.PDF Naim, DM., Telfer, S., Tatman, S., Bird, S., Kemp, SJ. & Watts, PC. (2014). 'Movement patterns and genetic diversity of wild and reintroduced common dormice, Muscardinus avellanarius'. Genetics and Molecular Research, vol 13, no. 1, pp. 167-181. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.4238/2014.JANUARY.10.8 Sherlock, C., Xifara, T., Telfer, S. & Begon, M. (2013). 'A coupled hidden Markov model for disease interactions'. Journal of the royal statistical society series c-Applied statistics, vol 62, no. 4, pp. 609-627. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1111/RSSC.12015 [ONLINE] AURA: A_COUPLED_HIDDEN_MARKOV_MODEL.PDF Wei, Y., Neal, P., Telfer, S. & Begon, M. (2012). 'Statistical analysis of an endemic disease from a capture-recapture experiment'. Journal of Applied Statistics, vol 39, no. 12, pp. 2759-2773. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.725467 Telfer, S. & Bown, K. (2012). 'The effects of invasion on parasite dynamics and communities'. Functional Ecology, vol 26, no. 6, pp. 1288-1299. DOI: [ONLINE] DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2435.2012.02049.X