Dr Dagmar Meyer Steiger ~ Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine
- About
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- Research Disciplines
- Publications
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- Journal Articles
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- Ramirez A, Colmant A, Warrilow D, Huang B, Pyke A, Mcmahon J, Meyer D, Graham R, Jennison A, Ritchie S and van den Hurk A (2020) Metagenomic analysis of the virome of mosquito excreta. mSphere, 5 (5).
- Meyer Steiger D, Ramirez Lopez A, van den Hurk A, Kurucz N and Ritchie S (2019) Development and field evaluation of a system to collect mosquito excreta for the detection of arboviruses. Journal of Medical Entomology, 56 (4). pp. 1116-1121
- Ramírez A, van den Hurk A, Meyer Steiger D and Ritchie S (2018) Searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack: advances in mosquito-borne arbovirus surveillance. Parasites and Vectors, 11.
- Timmins D, Staunton K, Meyer D, Townsend M, Paton C, Ramirez A and Ritchie S (2018) Modifying the biogents sentinel trap to increase the longevity of captured Aedes aegypti. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55 (6). pp. 1638-1641
- Meyer Steiger D, Ritchie S and Laurance S (2016) Mosquito communities and disease risk influenced by land use change and seasonality in the Australian tropics. Parasites & Vectors, 9. pp. 387-400
- Meyer Steiger D, Ritchie S and Laurance S (2016) Land use influences mosquito communities and disease risk on remote tropical islands: a case study using a novel sampling technique. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 94 (2). pp. 314-321
- Meyer Steiger D, Ritchie S and Laurance S (2014) Overcoming the challenges of mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) sampling in remote localities: a comparison of CO2 attractants on mosquito communities in three tropical forest habitats. Journal of Medical Entomology, 51 (1). pp. 39-45
- Meyer Steiger D, Johnson P, Hilbert D, Ritchie S, Jones D and Laurance S (2012) Effects of landscape disturbance on mosquito community composition in tropical Australia. Journal of Vector Ecology, 37 (1). pp. 69-76
- Other research outputs
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- Hilbert D, Hill R, Moran C, Turton S, Bohnet I, Marshall N, Pert P, Stoeckl N, Murphy H, Reside A, Laurance S, Alamgir M, Coles R, Crowley G, Curnock M, Dale A, Duke N, Esparon M, Farr M, Gillet S, Gooch M, Fuentes M, Hamann M, James C, Kroon F, Larson S, Lyons P, Marsh H, Meyer Steiger D, Sheaves M and Westcott D (2014) Climate change issues and impacts in the Wet Tropics NRM cluster region. James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia [Report]
- Laurance S, Meyer Steiger D and Ritchie S (2014) Detecting emerging infectious diseases in the Torres Strait: a review of vector, host and disease studies. Australian Government, Canberra, ACT, Australia [Report]
- Hilbert D, Hill R, Moran C, Turton S, Bohnet I, Marshall N, Pert P, Stoeckl N, Murphy H, Reside A, Laurance S, Alamgir M, Coles R, Crowley G, Curnock M, Dale A, Duke N, Esparon M, Farr M, Gillet S, Gooch M, Fuentes M, Hamann M, James C, Kroon F, Larson S, Lyons P, Marsh H, Meyer Steiger D, Sheaves M and Westcott D (2014) Key messages extracted from the Synthesis of Climate Change Issues and Impacts in the Wet Tropics NRM Cluster Region. James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia [Report]
- Current Funding
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Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research - Research Grant
A one health approach to establish surveillance strategies for Japanese encephalitis and zoonotic arboviruses in Papua New Guinea
- Indicative Funding
- $23,700 over 2 years (administered by CSIRO)
- Summary
- The project aim is to establish surveillance for JEV and other zoonotic arboviruses that affect the rural population of PNG. The major objectives are to: 1. Evaluate current detection methods to detect zoonotic arboviruses in the field and laboratory, and build capacity where gaps are identified. 2. Establish surveillance at selected sites using sentinel animal (pigs, chickens) and mosquito trapping 3. Develop linkages and coordination between human and animal health agencies. The primary outputs are to develop surveillance activities that contribute to early warning for public health and provide a better understanding of the ecological drivers of arboviruses in PNG.
- Investigators
- David Williams, Leanne Robinson, Paul Horwood, Stephan Karl and Dagmar Meyer Steiger (Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Burnet Insitute and Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine)
- Keywords
- Japanese encephalitis virus; Arbovirus; Papua New Guinea; Mosquito; Vector; Zoonotic
National Health & Medical Research Council - Northern Australia Tropical Disease Collaborative Research Programme Hot North Fellowship
Application for Next Generation Sequencing of mosquito excreta to identify arboviruses, microorganisms and mosquito species
- Indicative Funding
- $35,000 over 1 year (administered by Menzies School of Health Research)
- Summary
- Traditional testing for arboviruses in mosquitoes requires a priori knowledge and choosing appropriate assays for their detection. Mosquitoes can potentially provide a lot of additional information, including other unexpected or unknown arboviruses, and their own genetic material. Moreover, mosquitoes in effect act as environmental samplers (?flying syringes?), taking blood from the humans and animals they feed upon. These blood samples could potentially be infected with other pathogens that are not necessarily mosquito-transmitted. Next generation sequencing is a rapidly advancing technology that allows us to obtain all this information from a sample without any prior knowledge of virus, host or vector. We are proposing to use next generation sequencing of mosquito excreta to identify pathogens in mosquitoes collected from locations where different vertebrate groups inhabit, including urban areas, bat colonies, domesticated animals, marsupials, reptiles and avian hosts.
- Investigators
- Andrew van den Hurk, Scott Ritchie, Dagmar Meyer Steiger, David Warrilow, Alyssa Pyke, Ana Ramirez Lopez and Michael Townsend (Queensland Health Forensic & Scientific Services, College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences and Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine)
- Keywords
- Arbovirus; Mosquito; Next Generation Sequencing
- Collaboration
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The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
Note: Map points are indicative of the countries or states that institutions are associated with.- 5+ collaborations
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- Indicates the Tropics (Torrid Zone)
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