Senior Research Scientist
Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Peter J. Krause is Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. He received his B.A. with honors in biology from Williams College and his M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his Pediatric internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Stanford University Medical Center and his Pediatric Infectious Diseases training at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1979 and moved to Yale in 2008.
Dr. Krause carries out translational, epidemiological, and clinical research in the study of vector-borne diseases. His primary focus has been on human babesiosis but he has also carried out research on two companion tick-borne infections, Lyme disease and relapsing fever caused by Borrelia miyamotoi. He is the author of more than 180 peer reviewed scientific publications, two books, and more than 30 book chapters. He serves/has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases and on several leadership committees of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Connecticut Infectious Diseases Society.
