Nathan Nieto  

  

Assistant Professor  

Phone: 928-523-8034
Email:  nathan.nieto@nau.edu
Office: Wettaw, bldg. 88, room 235

Research/teaching interests

• infectious diseases
• vector biology
• dynamics of infectious diseases in wild animals 

Teaching

• Research Scientist: University of Nevada Reno, 2009-2012
• PhD: University of California Davis, 2008
• MA-Biology: Humboldt State University, 2004
• BS: Humboldt State University, 2000 

My research focuses on the ecological maintenance and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animals and how this translates into transmission of disease to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. I use a mixture of microbiology, molecular biology, and population ecology to investigate empirical infectious disease dynamics in wild animal populations. 

Selected publications

Coker, M. R., W. M. Rauw, N. C. Nieto, D. Thain, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. Hematologic and IgG responses of heifers experimentally infected with the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 41(3):344-352 

Nieto, N. C., K. Khan, G. Uhllah, and M. B. Teglas. 2012. The emergence and maintenance of vector-borne diseases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Frontiers in Systems Biology 3:250. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00250  

Nieto, N. C., M. B. Teglas, K. M. Stewart, T. Wasley, and P. L. Wolff. 2012. Detection of relapsing fever spirochetes (Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia coriaceae) in free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Nevada, United States. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 12(2): 99-105 

J. K. Gorman, B. R. Hoar, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, 2012. Evaluation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in experimentally inoculated sheep and determination of Anaplasma spp seroprevalence in 8 free-ranging sheep flocks in California and Oregon. American Journal of Veterinary Research 73(7): 1029-1034 

Teglas, M. B., S. Mapes, E. Hodzic, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Co-infection of Ornithodoros coriaceus with the relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia coriaceae, and the agent of epizootic bovine abortion. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Entomology 25(3): 337-343   

Foley, J. E., D. Rejmanek, K. Fleer, and N. C. Nieto. 2011. Nidicolous ticks of small mammals in Anaplasma phagocytophilum-enzootic sites in northern California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 75-80 

Rejmanek, D., N. C. Nieto, N. Barash, and J. E. Foley. 2011. Temporal patterns of tick-borne granulocytic anaplasmosis in California. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 81-87 

Foley, J. E. and N. C. Nieto. 2011. The ecology of tick transmitted infections in the redwood chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 88-93 

Nieto, N. C., S. Leonhard, J. E. Foley, R. S. Lane. 2010. Coinfection of western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) and other sciurid rodents with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(1): 291-296 

Nieto, N. C., E. Holmes, and J. E. Foley. 2010. Survival of immature Ixodes pacificus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) estimated using field-placed enclosures. Journal of Vector Ecology 35(1): 43-49 

Nieto, N. C., J. E. Madigan, and J. E. Foley. 2010. The dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) is susceptible to infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum originating form woodrats, horses and dogs. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(3): 810-817 

Gorman, J. K., M. Gabriel, N. J. MacLachlan, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley, and S. J. Spier. 2010. Pilot immunization of mice infected with an equine strain of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Veterinary Therapeutics 11(1): E1-E8 

Hunter, J. E., M.J. Mazurek, B. O’Connor, N. C. Nieto, J. E. Foley. 2010. Some ectoparasites and pathogens of the Point Arena mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra). Northwest Naturalist 91: 225-229 

Nieto CV 2012