VECTOR-BORNE ZOONOSES
LABORATORY
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health,
Texas Tech University
Steven M. Presley, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Environmental Toxicology • Director - Biological Threat Research Laboratory & Bioterrorism Response Laboratory
Research FOCUS
Areas
Current ACTIVE Research ProjectsTitle: Feral Hog Semi-Annual Serology Surveys in Oklahoma: PRRS,
Brucella, Francisella tularensis, Pseudorabies, Chagas Disease
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
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Title: Feral Hog Serology and Tissue Surveys for Chagas Disease on
the Oklahoma/Texas Border
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Internally Funded
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Title: Feral Hog Trans-Placental Study for Neosporosis caninum on
the Oklahoma/Texas Border
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Internally Funded
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Title: West Nile / Arboviral Seasonal Screening in Lubbock, Texas
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Internally Funded
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Title: Mosquito Insecticide Resistance Testing in 50 Texas Counties
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Texas DSHS
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Title: Stegomyia (Ae. alblpictus, Ae. aegypti mosquitos) Surveillance
in the Texas Panhandle
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Texas DSHS
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Recently Completed Research ProjectsTitle: Vaccine efficacy trials for epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus
(EHDV) in white-tailed deer
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI), E. Smith (Co-PI)
Funding Sponsor: Deer Breeders Corporation
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Title: Quail Disease Screening for Quail Cholera, Newcastle Disease,
and West Nile Virus in the West Texas Panhandle
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: RPQRF
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Title: Black Bear Semi-Annual Serology Surveys in Eastern
Oklahoma: PRRS, Brucella, Francisella tularensis, Pseudorabies,
Chagas Disease
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Oklahoma State University
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Title: Study of Drug Residue in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus
virginianus)
Investigators: E. Smith (PI), G.P. Austin (Co-PI), S.M. Presley (Co-PI)
Funding Sponsor: Deer Breeders Corporation
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Title: Operation Idiopathic Decline – II: Determining Lifecycle and
Transmission Dynamics of Oxyspirura petrowi in Rolling Plains
Cockroach (Order: Blattaria) and Orthopteran Species Consumed
by Northern Bobwhite Quail
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation
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Title: Operation Idiopathic Decline: Prevalence of Arboviral, Infectious
and Zoonotic Pathogens
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI) & R.J. Kendall (Co-PI)
Funding Sponsor: Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation
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Title: Serologic Survey of Feral Swine in Texas and Oklahoma for
Coxiella burnetii, Franciscella tularensis, and Yersinia pestis
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
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Title: Serologic Survey of Lesser Prairie Chickens for Fowl Cholera
and West Nile Virus
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
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Title: Investigating the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases within Lake
Ecosystems: The case of East African Rift Valley Lake
Ecosystems and Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)
mass-die offs
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Additional Laboratory Capabilities• Milk Regulatory Laboratory
Title: Milk Regulatory Testing Laboratory
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Texas Department of State Health Services
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• BSL-3 Capabilities
Title: Bioterrorism Response Lab, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention/Laboratory Response Network – Public Health
Emergency Preparedness / Hospital Preparedness / Influenza
Surveillance
Investigators: S.M. Presley (PI)
Funding Sponsor: Texas Department of State Health Services
Our specific research objective and focus is to better understand the environmental factors, both biotic and abiotic, that influence the occurrence, transmission, maintenance, and persistence of biological threat agents (naturally occurring and intentionally introduced), particularly zoonoses and other infectious pathogens of wildlife. Ultimately identifying potential vulnerabilities in the transmission and maintenance dynamics of the pathogen that can be exploited to limit or control its threat to human and animal health. This objective is accomplished through the detection and monitoring of the occurrence and incidence of established, emerging, resurgent and introduced pathogens. And by identifying and understanding relationships among primary hosts, vectors, intermediate hosts, and accidental/incidental hosts, as well as the environmental factors that influence those relationships.
Box 41163 • Lubbock, Texas 79409-1163 • U.S.A.
Office: 806-834-8260 or 806-885-0236 Fax: 806-885-2132 Email: steve.presley@ttu.edu
Steven M. Presley, Ph.D.
