Our group is primarily involved in studies of the maintenance and transmision dynamics of infectious agents, especially zoonotic agents. Our work includes both laboratory and field research of animal reservoir and arthropod vector populations, as well as epidemiologic studies of affected human populations. Our goal is to better understand the reasons for the persistence and emergence of infectious diseases.

Recent research has focused on rodent-borne viruses (Hantavirus, Hepatitis E-like virus), bacteria (Leptospira, Borrelia), and rickettsiae (Ehrlichia). In addition to traditional field and laboratory studies we use geographic information systems (GIS) to study environmental correlates of disease risk. Much of our current focus involves developing integrated statistical spatial models for disease risk assessment.

The GIS laboratory coordinates the study of anticipated geographic changes in infectious diseases for the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

GIS, Remote Sensing, Hantavirus, Lyme disease, Malaria, zoonoses, rodent-borne diseases

(From past 5 years)

Ostfeld, RS, GE Glass & F Keesing. 2005. Landscape epidemiology: an emerging (or re-emerging) discipline. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:328-336.

Curriero, FC, SM Shone & GE Glass. 2005. Cross correlation maps: a tool for visualizing and modeling time lagged associations. Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases 5:267-275.

Easterbrook, JD, T Shields, SL Klein, & GE Glass. 2005. The Norway rat population in Baltimore, Maryland, 2004. Emerg Infect Dis 5:296-299.

Glass, GE. 2006. Geographic information systems, pp.213-240 In K Nelson, & C Masters Williams (eds). Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition. Jones and Bartlett, Boston.

Shone, SM, FC Curriero, CR Lesser & GE Glass. 2006. Characterizing the population dynamics of Aedes sollicitans (Diptera: Culicidae) using meteorological data. J Med Entomol 43:393-402.

DiMenna, MA, R Bueno, Jr, DE Norris, JM Shekya, JL Molina, EM LaBeau, ES Hatton, & GE Glass. 2006. Emergence of West Nile virus in mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) communities of the New Mexico Rio Grande Valley. J Med Entomol 43:594-599.

Walsh, AS, TA Louis, & GE Glass. 2007. Detecting multiple levels of effect during survey sampling using a Bayesian approach: Point prevalence estimates of Hantavirus in cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus). Ecol Model 205:29-38.

DiMenna, MA, R Bueno, Jr., RR Parmenter, DE Norris, JM Sheyka, JL Molina, EM LaBeau, ES Hatton, CM Roberts & GE Glass. 2007. Urban habitat evaluation for West Nile virus surveillance in mosquitoes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. J Am Mosq Ctrl Assoc 23:153-160.

Glass, GE, T Shields, B Cai, TL Yates & R Parmenter. 2007. Persistently highest risk areas for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: potential sites for refugia. Ecol Appl 17:129-139.

Eisen, R., GE Glass, L Eisen, J Cheek, R Enscore, P Ettestad, K Gage.2007. A spatial model of shared risk for plague and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:999-1004.

Pekosz, A & GE Glass. 2008. Emerging viral diseases. Maryland Med 9:11-16

Walsh, AS, GE Glass, CR Lesser & FC Curriero. 2008. Predicting seasonal abundance of mosquitoes based on off-season meteorological conditions. Environ Ecol Statistics 15:279-291

Johansson MA, GE Glass. 2008. High-resolution spatiotemporal weather models for climate studies. Int J Health Geogr7:Article 52

Johansson, MA, F Dominici, GE Glass. 2009. Local and global effects of climate on dengue transmission in Puerto Rico. PLoS NTD 3(2): e382. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000382

Vittor, A. W. Pan, R. Gilman, J.Tielsch, G Glass, T. Shields, W. Sánchez-Lozano, V. Pinedo, E. Salas-Cobos, J. Patz.2009. Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:5-12.

Gardner-Santana, L.C., Norris, D.E., Fornadel, C.M. Hinson, E.R., Klein, S.L., Glass, GE. 2009. Commensal ecology, urban landscapes, and their influence on the genetic characteristics of city-dwelling Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Molecular Ecology 13:2766-2778.

Glass, GE. L. Gardner-Santana , RD Holt , J Chen , T Shields , M Roy , S Schachterle , SL Klein 2009. Trophic Garnishes: Cat-rat interactions in an urban environment. PLoS ONE 4(6): e5794. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0005794

Brown,HE, Ettestad,P, Reynolds, PJ, Hatton, E., Holmes, JL. Glass, GE, Gage, KL, Eisen, RJ. Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data along an ecological gradient. Am J Trop Med Hyg (in press).