United States Army Center

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United States Army Center for Health Promotion
Preventive Medicine
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WHERE WERE LOCATED
Landstuhl Germany
APG Maryland
Ft. Meade Maryland
Ft. Lewis Washington
Camp Zama Japan
Ft McPherson Georgia
Force Health Protection thru Prevention
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Entomological ServicesSubordinate Commands

• Vector-borne disease risk assessments
• Vector and pest identification
• Rapid diagnostic testing
• Training assistance visits
• On-site consultation/reviews

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USACHPPM-NEntomological Sciences Division

• Sand fly and mosquito analysis
• Tick population prediction studies

     
Contact LTC Tom Burroughs DSN 622-3466 Comm
301-677-3466
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USACHPPM-SEntomological Sciences Division

• Tick surveillance for STARI
• Possible collaboration with VETCOM and AMEDDCS

Contact MAJ. Tony Schuster DSN 367-3460/Comm.
404-464-3460
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USACHPPM-WEntomological Sciences Division

• Stored Products Pest Voucher Specimens
• DoD-GEIS Influenza Surveillance Response
  Program

Contact LTC Sonya
Schleich DSN
347-0073/Comm 253-966-0073
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USACHPPM-EUR

• Routine support to US forces in Pakistan
• New PCR laboratory to analyze disease vectors

Contact LTC Dave West
DSN [phone]
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CHPPM-PAC

• Disease Vector Testing
• Identify and test mosquitoes for
• malaria, Japanese Encephalitis, and Dengue
• Pesticide Applicator Cert/Recert
• Can be taught by CHPPM-PAC
• as of March 2007

Contact CPT Robert Moore DSN
315-263-8531/Comm 011-81-46-407-8531
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USACHPPM-MAINENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCES PROGRAM

• Vector-borne disease educational material
• Human Tick Test Kit Program
• DoD Pesticide Hotline
• Vector-borne disease threat assessments
• Pesticide monitoring
• GIS/GPS training/projects
• Pesticide archiving
• Field-expedient PCR devices

Contact Dr. Ed Evans DSN 584-3613/Comm
410-436-3613
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Power Point Presentation Web Compact Disk
Large Posters Specific Deployment Hazards
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DOD Human Tick Test Kit Program
Clinical support for tick-bite patients and their
health care providers
Tick I.D. and analysis
Lyme disease Rocky
Mountain spotted fever
Human monocytic ehrlichiosis
Human granulocytic
ehrlichiosis Babesiosis
Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI)

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DOD HUMAN TICK TEST KIT PROGRAM Ticks Removed
from Humans, CY 2006
Positive Results
Tick Species
Tested
Identified
LD1
HME5
HGA3
RMSF7
STARI6
Bab2
EE4
RP8
Amblyomma americanum (lone star tick)
1059
1065
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10

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18
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17
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Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick)

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0
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568
568
Ixodes scapularis (blacklegged tick,
a.k.a. deer tick)
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449
12
460
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106
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Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick)

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2
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2
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0

Dermacentor andersoni (Rocky
Mountain wood tick)
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13
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0
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Ixodes pacificus (western
blacklegged tick)
1
1
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0
0
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0
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Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)
5
5
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0
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Totals
2114
2097
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12
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106
18
5
17
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1. Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi
5. Human monocytic ehrlichiosis, caused by
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
6. Southern tick-associated rash illness,
caused by Borrelia lonestari
2. Babesiosis, caused by Babesia microti
3. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis, caused by
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
7. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, caused by
Rickettsia rickettsii
4. Human ehrlichiosis, caused by Ehrlichia
ewingii, a pathogen formerly only known to cause
canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis
8. Rickettsial illness, caused by Rickettsia
parkeri
1 of these ticks was coinfected with B.
lonestari and E. ewingii.
1 of these ticks was coinfected with B.
burgdorferi and B. microti 7 were coinfected
with B. burgdorferi and A. phagocytophilum.

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DOD Pesticide Hotline[phone]/DSN 584-3773

• Contact us for the following information
• Pesticide products
• Pesticide label information
• Material Safety Data Sheets
• Pest biology and control information
• Technical guides
• Fact sheets
• Federal Register information

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