A new analysis of state health department data reveals that more than 6,400 Illinois residents were diagnosed with tickborne disease from 2004-2022. The most commonly reported infections in the state are Lyme disease, occurring across Illinois but at higher rates in northern counties; anaplasmosis, reported most often in northern and southern counties; ehrlichiosis, seen most […]
Dr. Megan Colburn, a 2021 DVM graduate of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and current PhD student under the mentorship of Dr. Karen Terio, professor in the college’s Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, received the Linda Munson Scholarship for Wildlife Pathology Research from the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP). The scholarship […]
Research Partners Sought More than 65 years after the University of Illinois Board of Trustees established the Center for Zoonoses Research (CZR), its mission remains central to human and animal health. In April, the College of Veterinary Medicine held a kickoff event to reinvigorate the center. “When CZR was established in 1960, the concept of […]
Resistance to antimicrobial agents is rising among human infections with Escherichia coli bacteria that produce the Shiga toxin, according to a study analyzing data from nearly 2,000 infections in the United States between 2010 and 2021. The increase in resistance points to a need for antibiotic stewardship in the food production chain as well as […]
A new advance in animal husbandry involving a popular aquarium fish should speed the pace of discovery in laboratory studies of host-microbe interactions, researchers report. The new findings are detailed in the journal mSystems, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. Why Zebrafish for Microbiome Research? Zebrafish are desirable study animals because one pair […]