Agricultural Animal Health Program (AAHP)

Program in Vector-borne Diseases 

 

Program objectives Understand how arthropod-borne pathogens persist and are transmitted with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks Program accomplishments Development of Anaplasma and Babesia diagnostic tests for national and international use Determination of the role of persistent infection in tick-borne transmission Elucidation of the genetic basis for antigenic variation Identification of mechanisms required for protective immunity

Program support

National Institutes of Health-Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
US Department of Agriculture-National Research Initiative
The Wellcome Trust
US Department of Agriculture-National Science Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
State of Washington Safe Food Initiative
US Department of Agriculture-Animal Diseases Research Unit
WSU Animal Health Research Center

Faculty

Troy Bankhead Kelly A. Brayton Wendy C. Brown Donald P. Knowles Terry F. McElwain Audrey  Lau Susan M. Noh

Junzo Norimine Guy H. Palmer Fred R. Rurangirwa Glen A. Scoles Carlos E. Suarez Massaro W. Ueti Viveka Vadyvaloo

Publications

 

For more information on the Program in Vector-borne diseases, contact Dr. Guy Palmer, Program Leader