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Expert in zoonotic tick-borne diseases at RUSVM

10/01/09

• Dr Lorenza Beati is Associate Professor and Curator of the US National Tick Collection, Georgia Southern University. She is also an Affiliated Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health. Dr Beati is a specialist in molecular diagnostics of tick-borne diseases including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), Lyme disease, leishmani vectors and other emerging diseases. She has consulted and worked in many countries of Africa, Europe and the USA. Dr Beati visited RUSVM in 2006, 2007, 2008 and recently in 2009. During this fourth visit to RUSVM, Dr Beati was accompanied by Dr Jim Keirans and gave a lecture titled, "Research Highlights: Activities of the US National Tick Collection". Activities included discussions with RUSVM faculty about collaborative projects on the tropical bont tick (Amblyomma variegatum).

 

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• Dr Lorenza Beati speaks to RUSVM students and faculty about the activities of the US National Tick Collection (photo by Matt McMillan)