Khemraj Budachetri
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
Publications
36
Citations
1,108
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
12
Publishing since 2013
Khemraj Budachetri studies the biology of ticks, especially the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum), and how they interact with the bacteria they transmit, such as Rickettsia parkeri, a pathogen related to spotted fever. This research examines tick microbiomes, antioxidant and immune defenses, and symbiotic bacteria to understand how disease-causing microbes survive and spread within ticks, with relevance to controlling tick-borne diseases in animals and humans.
Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, with active bursts in 2017, 2021, and 2022, a gap in 2019 and 2023, and continued output through 2024, suggesting an irregular but ongoing research cadence.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Hematophagy and tick-borne Rickettsial pathogen shape the microbial community structure and predicted functions within the tick vector, Amblyomma maculatum
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · 2022
- A draft of the genome of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases · 2022
- Rickettsia parkeri infection modulates the sialome and ovariome of the Gulf coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum
Frontiers in Microbiology · 2022
- Hematophagy and Tick-Borne Rickettsial Pathogen Shape the Microbial Community Structure and Predicted Functions Within the Tick Vector, <i>Amblyomma maculatum</i>.
Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi) · 2022
- Recent advances in understanding tick and rickettsiae interactions
Parasite Immunology · 2021
- Changes in microbial composition, diversity, and functionality in the <i>Amblyomma maculatum</i> microbiome following infection with <i>Rickettsia parkeri</i>
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- The tick endosymbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and selenoproteins are essential for the growth of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick vector
Microbiome · 2018
- Oxygen deprivation influences the survival of Listeria monocytogenes in gerbils1
Translational Animal Science · 2018
- A study of ticks and tick-borne livestock pathogens in Pakistan
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017
- Catalase is a determinant of the colonization and transovarial transmission of <i>Rickettsia parkeri</i> in the Gulf Coast tick <i>Amblyomma maculatum</i>
Insect Molecular Biology · 2017
- Amblyomma maculatum SECIS binding protein 2 and putative selenoprotein P are indispensable for pathogen replication and tick fecundity
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2017
- Study of Rickettsia parkeri Colonization and Proliferation in the Tick Host Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae)
2017
- Study of <i>Rickettsia parkeri</i> Colonization and Proliferation in the Tick Host <i>Amblyomma maculatum</i> (Acari: Ixodidae)
Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi) · 2017
- Assessment of tick antioxidant responses to exogenous oxidative stressors and insight into the role of catalase in the reproductive fitness of the Gulf Coast tick, <i>Amblyomma maculatum</i>
Insect Molecular Biology · 2016
- A snapshot of the microbiome of Amblyomma tuberculatum ticks infesting the gopher tortoise, an endangered species
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases · 2016
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases×3
- mBio×3
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×2
- Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology×2
- Insect Molecular Biology×2
- Xiuli Yang
Immunology and Microbiology · Indiana University
- Afsoon Sabet
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Oghenekaro Omodior
Immunology and Microbiology · Indiana University
- Paula Lado
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Kristen Heitman
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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