Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum is my favorite tick because it is the definitive host of Hepatozoon americanum

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum is my favorite tick because it is the definitive host of Hepatozoon americanum

Education: B.S., D.V.M., M.S., Ph. D.

Title: Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathobiology

Phone: 405-744-2473

Fax: 405-744-5275

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Education: Veterinary Parasitology

Area of Research Expertise: Canine hepatozoonosis, ehrlichiosis, haemonchosis, clinical parasitology

Research Interests: Epidemiology of American canine hepatozoonois

Teaching: Clinical Parasitology

Selected Publications: (Last 3-5 years)

Johnson, EM, Allen, K, Panciera, R, Ewing, S, Little,S, and Reichard, M. 2007. Field survey of rodents for Hepatozoon infections in endemic focus of American canine hepatozoonosis, VET. Parasitol. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.vetpara.2007.08/050.

Johnson, EM, Allen, K, Breshears, M, Panciera, R, Little, S and Ewing, S. 2007. Experimental transmission of Hepatozoon americanum to rodents. (accepted with revisions, Veterinary Parasitology).

Pusterla N, Johnson EM, Chae JS and Madigan JE. Digenetic trematodes, Acanthatrium sp. And Lecithodendrium sp., as vectors of Neorickettsia risticii, the agent of Potomac horse fever. J. Helminthology, 77: 335-339, 2003.

Lamberski, N, Reader, JR, Cook, LF, Johnson, EM, Baker, DG, Lowenstine, LJ. A retrospective study of 11 cases of lungworm (Didelphostrongylus Hayesi) in fection in opossums (Didelphis virginiana). J. Zoo & Wildl. Med., 33 (2): 151-156, 2002.

Faulkner CT, Patton S, Munson L, Johnson EM, and Coonan TJ. Angiocaulus gubernaculatus in the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) from the California Channel Islands and comments on the diagnosis of Angiostrongylidae nematodes in canid and mustelid hosts. J. Parasitol., 87(5): 1174-1176, 2001.