TickNET
Overview
TickNET, a collaborative public health effort established by CDC in 2007, fosters coordinated surveillance, research, education, and prevention of tickborne diseases.
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Principal Partners
- State and local health departments
- CDC’s Division of Vector-borne Diseases and Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
Through TickNET, CDC funds two types of extramural efforts:
- CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP) supports applied research in the following states:
- Connecticut
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- New York
- The Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement (ELC) supports efforts to maintain and enhance basic surveillance in many states and several municipalities.
![A researcher dragging for ticks](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219070409im_/https://www.cdc.gov/ticknet/images/tick-drag-index.jpg)
Page last reviewed: April 11, 2019