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Needed: A National Tick Strategy

We need a national tick strategy, UF Medical Geography researcher Dr. Claudia Ganser argued in a recent paper. “Historically in the U.S., public health has focused more on mosquitoes versus ticks,” Ganser says. “A lot of the public health infrastructure of surveillance programs that is already in place focuses on mosquitoes rather than ticks,” Ganser says. […]

A Survey of Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens in Florida

GANSER, GLASS, KESSLER – A Survey of Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens in Florida Carrie E. De Jesus, Claudia Ganser, William H. Kessler, Zoe S. White, Chanakya R. Bhosale, Gregory E. Glass, and Samantha M. Wisely Article first published online: 13 SEPT 2019 Insects DOI: 10.3390/insects10090297 ABSTRACT: Within the past three decades, new bacterial etiological agents of […]