Barbara Qurollo
Bio
Dr. Barbara Qurollo is a research associate professor at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She obtained her DVM from Colorado State University before completing an internship in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care in Milwaukee, WI. Following her internship she spent 3 years studying vector-borne diseases in companion animals as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at NC State – CVM. Her research efforts are focused on vector-borne disease in wildlife and companion animals and improved methods of detecting disease across wildlife, pets, domesticated animals and humans.
AFFILIATIONS
North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association
Associate Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU
International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases
CERTIFICATIONS
DVM
Publications
- Detection of Dirofilaria repens and Mansonella llewellyni in the United States by Wolbachia Surveillance , Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2025)
- First identification of Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in host-attached Dermacentor variabilis and across a large geographic sampling region, South Carolina, U.S.A. , Journal of Vector Ecology (2025)
- Isolation and Characterization of Rickettsia finnyi , Novel Pathogenic Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in Dogs, United States , Emerging infectious diseases (2025)
- Isolation, culture, and genome analysis of Rickettsia oklahomensis sp. nov. (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) from Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) , Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (2025)
- Contrasting pathogen prevalence between tick and dog populations at Chornobyl , Parasites & Vectors (2024)
- Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in an inflammatory pericardial effusion of a dog , Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (2024)
- Evaluation of the Veterinary IDEXX SNAP 4Dx Plus Test for the Diagnosis of Lyme Disease in Humans , Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (2024)
- Rapid Increase in Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi Antibodies among Dogs, Northwestern North Carolina, USA, 2017–20211 , Emerging infectious diseases (2024)
- A second-generation, point-of-care immunoassay provided improved detection of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia antibodies in PCR-positive dogs naturally infected with Anaplasma or Ehrlichia species , Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2023)
- Evaluation of Anaplasma spp. seroprevalence in dogs and association with incidence of human anaplasmosis , Veterinary Parasitology Regional Studies and Reports (2023)