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 Renjie Hu
Research associate, Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology. Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 1996. Ecology and biological control of arthropods of medical importance, epidemiology and epizootiology of vector-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease and human babesiosis, vector-host-pathogen interactions.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Acarological Society of America
American Society of Parasitologists
Entomological Society of America
Society for Vector Ecology
Systematic and Applied Acarology Society

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
Editor, Journal of Systematic and Applied Acarology, 1997-
Editor, Acarology Bulletin, 1997-
Executive Committee, Systematic and Applied Acarology Society, 1996-
Assistant Editor, Acarology Bulletin, 1995-1996
China Correspondent, Newsletter of the Society for Vector Ecology, 1989 -
Assistant Editor, Newsletter of the Acarological Society of America, 1991-1993

PUBLICATIONS
Hu, R. and K. E. Hyland. 1997. Human babesiosis in the United States: An review with emphasis on its tick vector. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2(1): 3-16.

Hu, R. and K. E. Hyland. 1997 Prevalence and seasonal activity of the wasp parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in its tick host, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2(1): 95-100.

Markowski, D., K. E. Hyland, H. S. Ginsberg, and R. Hu. 1997. Spatial distribution of larval Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) on Peromyscus leucopus and Microtus pennsylvanicus at two island sites. Journal of Parasitology 83 (2): 207-211.

Hu, R., D. Markowski, K. E. Hyland, C. Kelly, and T. N. Mather. 1996. Human infection with tick-borne Babesia microti in Rhode Island: Serological evidence and risk factor assessment. Journal of Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases, 3 (3/4): 135-139.

Hu, R.., M.-T. Yeh, K. E. Hyland, and T. N. Mather. 1996. Experimental Babesia microti infection in golden hamsters: Immunoglobulin G response and recovery from severe hemolytic anemia. Journal of Parasitology 82 (5): 728-732.

Mather, T. N., M. C. Nicholson, R. Hu, and N. J. Miller. 1996. Entomological correlates of Babesia microti prevalence in an area where Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) is endemic. Journal of Medical Entomology 33 (5): 866-870.

Yeh, M.-T., J. M. Bak, R. Hu, M. C. Nicholson, C. Kelly, and T. N. Mather. 1995. Determining the duration of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) attachment to tick-bite victims. Journal of Medical Entomology 32(6): 853-858.

Hu, R., K. E. Hyland, and T. N. Mather. 1993. Occurrence and distribution in Rhode Island of Hunterellus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a wasp parasitoid of Ixodes dammini. Journal of Medical Entomology 30(1): 277-280.

Carroll, M. C., H. S. Ginsberg, K. E. Hyland, and R. Hu. 1992. Distribution of Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) in residential lawns on Prudence Island, Rhode Island. Journal of Medical Entomology 29 (6): 1052-1055.

Ai, C., R. Hu, K. E. Hyland, Y. Wen, Y. Zhang, Q. Qiu, D. Li, X. Liu, Z. Shi, J. Zhao, and D. Cheng. 1990. Epidemiological and aetiological evidence for transmission of Lyme disease by adult Ixodes persulcatus in an endemic area in China. International Journal of Epidemiology 19 (4): 1061-1065.

Hyland, K. E., Z. S. Amr, and R. Hu. 1988. Lyme borreliosis and other tick-borne diseases in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Medical Journal 71(12): 475-484.