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Samantha M. Wisely @profwisely.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just published today! Our group used mosquitoes as flying syringes to conduct surveillance on pathogens of turkeys, white-tailed deer and invasive wild pigs. Not only could we detect DNA and RNA viruses, we could estimate prevalence! 🌎🧪👩‍🔬 doi.org/10.3390/path...

Exogenous xenosurveillance allows us to sample peripheral blood of wildlife hosts using mosquitoes. We can then identify hosts using barcodes and screen for host pathogens.

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botero-canola.bsky.social @botero-canola.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/w...

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Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa

I know almost nothing about protozoa, and I’m pretty confident that this is the first time I’ve ever written about them. But I’m a sucker for a good Latin name, and I’ve run across not just one, bu…

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botero-canola.bsky.social @botero-canola.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Check out this cool note from @profwisely.bsky.social Lab reporting that soft ticks feed on feral swine in Florida link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Contact between soft tick vectors of African swine fever virus and invasive wild pigs in the southeastern USA - Parasites & Vectors

Background African swine fever virus is a transboundary pathogen of high economic impact to the global pork industry. Florida has multiple factors that contribute to the high risk of introduction of A...

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