Madhavi Kakumanu

Hickin, M. L., Kakumanu, M. L., & Schal, C. (2022). Effects of Wolbachia elimination and B-vitamin supplementation on bed bug development and reproduction. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14505-2

Gonzalez-Morales, M. A., DeVries, Z. C., Santangelo, R. G., Kakumanu, M. L., & Schal, C. (2022, August 9). Multiple Mechanisms Confer Fipronil Resistance in the German Cockroach: Enhanced Detoxification and Rdl Mutation (W. Booth, Ed.). JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac100

Kakumanu, M. L., Marayati, B. F., Schal, C., Apperson, C. S., Wasserberg, G., & Ponnusamy, L. (2021). Oviposition-Site Selection of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) Sand Flies: Attraction to Bacterial Isolates From an Attractive Rearing Medium. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 58(2), 518–527. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa198

Gonzalez-Morales, M. A., DeVries, Z., Sierras, A., Santangelo, R. G., Kakumanu, M. L., & Schal, C. (2021). Resistance to Fipronil in the Common Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 58(4), 1798–1807. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab040

Kakumanu, M. L., Marayati, B. F., Wada-Katsumata, A., Wasserberg, G., Schal, C., Apperson, C. S., & Ponnusamy, L. (2021). Sphingobacterium phlebotomi sp. nov., a new member of family Sphingobacteriaceae isolated from sand fly rearing substrate. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 71(5). https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004809

Travanty, N. V., Ponnusamy, L., Kakumanu, M. L., Nicholson, W. L., & Apperson, C. S. (2019). Diversity and structure of the bacterial microbiome of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, is dominated by the endosymbiont Francisella. SYMBIOSIS, 79(3), 239–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-019-00642-2

Kakumanu, M. L., Ma, L., & Williams, M. A. (2019). Drought-induced soil microbial amino acid and polysaccharide change and their implications for C-N cycles in a climate change world. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46984-1

DeVries, Z. C., Santangelo, R. G., Crissman, J., Suazo, A., Kakumanu, M. L., & Schal, C. (2019). Pervasive Resistance to Pyrethroids in German Cockroaches (Blattodea: Ectobiidae) Related to Lack of Efficacy of Total Release Foggers. Journal of Economic Entomology, 112(5), 2295–2301. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toz120

Kakumanu, M. L., Maritz, J. M., Carlton, J. M., & Schal, C. (2018). Overlapping Community Compositions of Gut and Fecal Microbiomes in Lab-Reared and Field-Collected German Cockroaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84(17). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01037-18

Kakumanu, M. L., Ponnusamy, L., Sutton, H., Meshnick, S. R., Nicholson, W. L., & Apperson, C. S. (2018). Prevalence of Rickettsia Species (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) in Dermacentor variabilis Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in North Carolina. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 55(5), 1284–1291. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjy074

Levine, J. F., Apperson, C. S., Levin, M., Kelly, T. R., Kakumanu, M. L., Ponnusamy, L., … Szempruch, A. J. (2017). Stable Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Zoonoses and Public Health, 64(5), 337–354. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12302

Kakumanu, M. L., Ponnusamy, L., Sutton, H. T., Meshnick, S. R., Nicholson, W. L., & Apperson, C. S. (2016). Development and Validation of an Improved PCR Method Using the 23S-5S Intergenic Spacer for Detection of Rickettsiae in Dermacentor variabilis Ticks and Tissue Samples from Humans and Laboratory Animals. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 54(4), 972–979. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02605-15

Wallace, J. W., Nicholson, W. L., Perniciaro, J. L., Vaughn, M. F., Funkhouser, S., Juliano, J. J., … Meshnick, S. R. (2016). Incident Tick-Borne Infections in a Cohort of North Carolina Outdoor Workers. VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES, 16(5), 302–308. https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2015.1887

Lee, S., Kakumanu, M. L., Ponnusamy, L., Vaughn, M., Funkhouser, S., Thornton, H., … Apperson, C. S. (2014). Prevalence of Rickettsiales in ticks removed from the skin of outdoor workers in North Carolina. PARASITES & VECTORS, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0607-2