Caylee Falvo

This study models how diet affects viral shedding and spillover risk in Jamaican fruit bats infected with H18N11, finding diet-dependent interactions between citrulline and TNF influence shedding and transmission.

The paper investigates Borrelia infections in black flying foxes, finding two novel haplotypes distinct from known zoonotic clades.

This study shows Jamaican fruit bats can support EBOV replication and shedding but not MARV, due to differences in viral entry and IFN-I signaling suppression.

The study shows diet affects viral shedding in Jamaican fruit bats, with suboptimal-sugar diets leading to higher viral RNA shedding than suboptimal-fat diets.

This paper introduces a Bayesian multilevel model to estimate prevalence dynamics from pooled and individual wildlife samples, accounting for dilution effects and false negatives.

The paper shows that periodic increases in viral load during high prevalence periods in bats correlate with spillover events, suggesting viral load is a better predictor of transmission risk than prevalence alone.