Michael Begon - Publications, H-index & Citations

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Michael Begon

university of liverpool

75H-index

445Paper Count

2.7WCitation Count

Published Papers 69

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Seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild, domestic and companion animals in urban informal settlements from Salvador, Brazil

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

IF3.4

2025-12-16

PREAI

Bazan, Leonela; Argibay, Hernan Dario; Borges-Silva, Waleria; Pita Gondim, Luis Fernando; dos Santos Mattos, Thais Auxiliadora; Santana, Juliete Oliveira; da Silva, Eduardo Mendes; Begon, Michael; Khalil, Hussein; Costa, Federico; De Oliveira Carneiro, Ianei

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Hematological and biochemical profiles, infection and habitat quality in an urban rat population

Scientific Reports

IF3.9

2025-07-22

OAAI

Ticiana Carvalho-Pereira; Gabriel G. Pedra; Daiana S. de Oliveira; Fábio N. Souza; Caio G. Zeppelini; Luana R. N. Santos; Ricardo D. Couto; Thiago C. Bahiense; Eduardo M. da Silva; Michael Begon; Mitermayer Galvão Reis; Albert I. Ko; James E. Childs; Federico Costa

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Epidemiological connectivity between humans and animals across an urban landscape

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IF9.1

2023-07-14

OAAI

Hassell, James M.; Muloi, Dishon M.; VanderWaal, Kimberly L.; Ward, Melissa J.; Bettridge, Judy; Gitahi, Nduhiu; Ouko, Tom; Imboma, Titus; Akoko, James; Karani, Maurice; Muinde, Patrick; Nakamura, Yukiko; Alumasa, Lorren; Furmaga, Erin; Kaitho, Titus; Amanya, Fredrick; Ogendo, Allan; Fava, Francesco; Wee, Bryan A.; Phan, Hang; Kiiru, John; Kang'ethe, Erastus; Kariuki, Sam; Robinson, Timothy; Begon, Michael; Woolhouse, Mark E. J.; Fevre, Eric M.

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Population dynamics of synanthropic rodents after a chemical and infrastructural intervention in an urban low-income community

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

IF3.9

2022-06-16

OAAI

Awoniyi, Adedayo Michael; Venegas-Vargas, Cristina; Souza, Fabio Neves; Zeppelini, Caio Graco; Hacker, Kathryn P.; Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana; Marins, Catarina Lobo; de Santana, Mayara Carvalho; Pertile, Arsinoe Cristina; Begon, Michael; Ko, Albert I.; Diggle, Peter J.; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Childs, James E.; da Silva, Eduardo Mendes; Costa, Federico; Khalil, Hussein

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Using Rhodamine B to assess the movement of small mammals in an urban slum

METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

IF6.2

2021-08-11

OAAI

Awoniyi, Adedayo Michael; Souza, Fabio Neves; Zeppelini, Caio Graco; Xavier, Barbara Ines A.; Barreto, Ana Maria; Santiago, Diogo Cesar C.; Santana, Juliet Oliveira; da Silva, Eduardo Mendes; Costa, Federico; Begon, Michael; Khalil, Hussein

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Socio-ecological drivers of vertebrate biodiversity and human-animal interfaces across an urban landscape

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

IF12

2020-12-01

OAAI

Hassell, James M.; Bettridge, Judy M.; Ward, Melissa J.; Ogendo, Allan; Imboma, Titus; Muloi, Dishon; Fava, Francesco; Robinson, Timothy P.; Begon, Michael; Fevre, Eric M.

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A multivariate geostatistical framework for combining multiple indices of abundance for disease vectors and reservoirs: a case study of rattiness in a low-income urban Brazilian community

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE

IF3.5

2020-09-02

OAAI

Eyre, Max T.; Carvalho-Pereira, Ticiana S. A.; Souza, Fabio N.; Khalil, Hussein; Hacker, Kathryn P.; Serrano, Soledad; Taylor, Joshua P.; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Ko, Albert I.; Begon, Mike; Diggle, Peter J.; Costa, Federico; Giorgi, Emanuele

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Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

IF3.9

2020-05-04

OAAI

Wanelik, Klara M.; Begon, Mike; Arriero, Elena; Bradley, Janette E.; Friberg, Ida M.; Jackson, Joseph A.; Taylor, Christopher H.; Paterson, Steve

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The drivers of squirrelpox virus dynamics in its grey squirrel reservoir host

EPIDEMICS

IF2.4

2019-09-01

OAAI

Chantrey, Julian; Dale, Timothy; Jones, David; Begon, Michael; Fenton, Andy

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Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

IF15.7

2019-06-14

OAAI

Hassell, J. M.; Ward, M. J.; Muloi, D.; Bettridge, J. M.; Phan, H.; Robinson, T. P.; Ogendo, A.; Imboma, T.; Kiiru, J.; Kariuki, S.; Begon, M.; Kang'ethe, E. K.; Woolhouse, M. E. J.; Fevre, E. M.

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Clinically relevant antimicrobial resistance at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Nairobi: an epidemiological study

LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH

IF21.6

2019-06-01

OAAI

Hassell, James M.; Ward, Melissa J.; Muloi, Dishon; Bettridge, Judy M.; Robinson, Timothy P.; Kariuki, Sam; Ogendo, Allan; Kiiru, John; Imboma, Titus; Kang'ethe, Erastus K.; Oghren, Elin M.; Williams, Nicola J.; Begon, Michael; Woolhouse, Mark E. J.; Fevre, Eric M.

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A model for leptospire dynamics and control in the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) the reservoir host in urban slum environments

EPIDEMICS

IF2.4

2018-12-01

OAAI

Minter, Amanda; Diggle, Peter J.; Costa, Federico; Childs, James; Ko, Albert, I; Begon, Mike

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Quantification of Leptospira interrogans Survival in Soil and Water Microcosms

APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

IF3.7

2018-07-01

103

OAAI

Casanovas-Massana, Arnau; Pedra, Gabriel Ghizzi; Wunder, Elsio A., Jr.; Diggle, Peter J.; Begon, Mike; Ko, Albert I.

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Physiological, but not fitness, effects of two interacting haemoparasitic infections in a wild rodent

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

IF3.2

2018-05-01

OAAI

Taylor, Christopher H.; Wanelik, Klara M.; Friberg, Ida M.; Lowe, Ann; Hall, Amy J.; Ralli, Catriona; Birtles, Richard J.; Begon, Mike; Paterson, Steve; Jackson, Joseph A.; Bradley, Janette E.

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Quantification of pathogenic Leptospira in the soils of a Brazilian urban slum

PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

IF3.4

2018-04-06

OAAI

Schneider, Andrew G.; Casanovas-Massana, Arnau; Hacker, Kathryn P.; Wunder, Elsio A., Jr.; Begon, Mike; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Childs, James E.; Costa, Federico; Lindow, Janet C.; Ko, Albert I.

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High prevalence of epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

IF3.4

2017-07-14

OAAI

Levick, Bethany; Laudisoit, Anne; Tepage, Floribert; Ensoy-Musoro, Chellafe; Mandro, Michel; Osoro, Caroline Bonareri; Suykerbuyk, Patrick; Kashama, Jean Marie; Komba, Michel; Tagoto, Alliance; Falay, Dadi; Begon, Michael; Colebunders, Robert

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Endemic Hantavirus in Field Voles, Northern England

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

IF6.6

2017-06-01

OAAI

Thomason, Anna G.; Begon, Michael; Bradley, Janette E.; Paterson, Steve; Jackson, Joseph A.

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Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife-Livestock-Human Interface

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

IF17.3

2017-01-01

466

OAAI

Hassell, James M.; Begon, Michael; Ward, Melissa J.; Fevre, Eric M.

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Estimates of coextinction risk: how anuran parasites respond to the extinction of their hosts

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

IF3.2

2015-12-01

PREAI

Campiao, Karla Magalhaes; de Aquino Ribas, Augusto Cesar; Cornell, Stephen J.; Begon, Michael; Roland Tavares, Luiz Eduardo

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Patterns in Leptospira Shedding in Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from Brazilian Slum Communities at High Risk of Disease Transmission

PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

IF3.4

2015-06-05

138

OAAI

Costa, Federico; Wunder, Elsio A., Jr.; De Oliveira, Daiana; Bisht, Vimla; Rodrigues, Gorete; Reis, Mitermayer G.; Ko, Albert I.; Begon, Mike; Childs, James E.

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