Tick Submission in MI Local Health Department, Environmental Health Division maintains tick kits Each tick kit contains: – Tick submission form – Instructions – Mailing container Specimens can be returned to LHD or mailed to Michigan department of Agriculture.
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Tick Submission in MI Local Health Department, Environmental Health Division maintains tick kits Each tick kit contains: –Tick submission form –Instructions.
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Tick Submission in MILocal Health Department, Environmental
Health Division maintains tick kits
Each tick kit contains:– Tick submission form– Instructions– Mailing container
Specimens can be returned to LHD or mailed to Michigan department of Agriculture.
Project objectives:(1) Develop SW Michiganas test site for quantitativeLyme disease ecologicalrisk assessment(2) Enroll vet clinics in SWMichigan as sentinels for ticks and canine sera(3) Trap rodents at new sites,Inspect for ticks, isolateB. burgdorferi(4) Check locally shot deerfor ticks
GIS Risk Model Test Region
Dept Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Mich State Univ
Is lower Michiganunder invasion by I.scapularis ticks, and “Lyme disease?”
If so, does this providean opportunity to testand improve the risk mapbased upon tick habitatsuitability?