Mike Teglas, DVM

Associate Professor & Student Advisor

Department: Agriculture, Veterinary and Rangeland Sciences
Office: 775-784-1004
Email: mteglas@unr.edu
Building: FA
Room: 105
Mailstop: 202

Summary

Nevada’s large open spaces and diversity of habitat types supports a wide variety of wildlife species as well as domestic livestock. These conditions lend themselves to the uniqueness of the state but also provide habitat for many tick species. Important tick borne diseases have been diagnosed in humans and domestic animals within Nevada but little is known about the distribution and composition of tick populations throughout the state. Most of my efforts go into investigating the role of tick borne disease in the health of cattle herds throughout Nevada. Currently I am identifying important tick species, and the diseases they carry.

Education

BS, 1991. Washington state University, Pullman, WA
DVM, 1996. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
PhD, 2005. University of California, Davis, CA

Publications

Book Chapter(s)

Argasid ticks, relapsing fever and a changing climate.

2021

In Climate, Ticks and Disease. UK: Oxford Press

Teglas, M. B.

Bulletins

Cattle Management Strategies to Minimize Foothill Abortion.

2016

University of California Extension Publications, 8566(October), 1-6

Oliver, M., Nader, G. A., Maas, J., Blanchard, M., Stott, J., Teglas, M. B., Becchetti, T., Bushnell, R.

Journals

Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of viral infection across populations of the Melissa blue butterfly

2024

Ecological Entomology, 49(1), 54-66

McKeegan, K. J., Muchoney, N. D., Teglas, M. B., Forister, M. L., & Smilanich, A. M.

Host plant-mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly

2024

Ecology

Christensen, T., Dyer, L., Forister, M., Bowers, M.D., Carper, A., Teglas, M.B., Hurtado, P., and Smilanich, A.M.

The use of a novel host plant may confer fitness benefits in terms of survival and reduced viral transmission when larvae feeding on it are infected with this pathogen, supporting hypotheses of...

Use of an exotic host plant reduces viral burden in a native insect herbivore

2023

Ecology Letters, 26(3), 425-436

Muchoney, N. D., Bowers, M. D., Carper, A. L., Teglas, M. B., & Smilanich, A. M.

Preying dangerously: black widow spider venom resistance in sympatric lizards

2022

Bioscience 49, 557-568

Vicki L. Thill, Haley A. Moniz, Mike B. Teglas, McKenzie J. Wasley and Chris R. Feldman

Protection of Cattle against Epizootic Bovine Abortion (EBA) Using a Live Pajaroellobacter abortibovis Vaccine

2022

Vaccines (Basel) 10(2):335.

Blanchard, M.T.; Teglas, M.B.; Anderson, M.L.; Moore, P.F.; McNabb, B.R.; Collins, K.M.; Yeargan, B.V.; Stott, J.L.

Use of an exotic host plant shifts immunity, chemical defense, and viral burden in wild populations of a specialist insect herbivore

2022

Ecology & Evolution Volume12, Issue3

Nadya D. Muchoney, M. Deane Bowers, Adrian L. Carper, Peri A. Mason, Mike B. Teglas, Angela M. Smilanich

Borreliosis transmission from ticks to humans associated with desert tortoise burrows: examples of tick-borne relapsing fever in the Mojave Desert, 21(8).

2021

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic DiseasesVol. 21, No. 8

Bechtel, M. J., Drake, K. K., Esque, T. C., Teglas, M. B., Foster, J. T., & Nieto, N. C.

Lost in a sagebrush sea: comparative genetic assessment of an isolated montane population of Tamias amoenus

2021

Journal of Mammalogy, gyaa166

KC Bell, J Van Gunst, MB Teglas, J Hsueh, MD Matocq

What is in commercial cat and dog food? The case for mercury and ingredient testing.

2019

Science of The Total Environment, Vol 684, pg. 276-280

Dunham-Cheatham S.M., Klingler K., Peacock M., Teglas M.B., Gustin MS.

Ecological niche modeling and distribution of Ornithodoros hermsi associated with tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America.

2017

PLoS Neglected Tropic Diseases, 11(10).

Sage, K. M., Johnson, T. L., Teglas, M. B., Nieto, N. C., Schwan, T. G.

Parasite prevalence and community diversity in sympatric and allopatric populations of two woodrat species (Neotoma, Sigmodontinae).

2015

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51, 162-172

Bechtel, M., Teglas, M., Murphy, P., Matocq, M.

Assessment of a fluorescent antibody test for the detection of antibodies against epizootic bovine abortion.

2014

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 26(5), 622-630.

Blanchard, M., Anderson, M., Hoar, B., Blanchard, P., Yeargan, B., Teglas, M. B., Belshaw, M., Stott, J.

Growth, Root Formation and Nutrient Value of Triticale Plants Fertilized with Biosolids.

2012

Scientific World Journal, 2012, 7. doi:10.1100/2012/467052

Rauw, W. M., Teglas, M. B., Chandra, S., Forister, M. L.

Hematologic and IgG responses of heifers experimentally infected with the agent of epizootic bovine abortion evaluation of heifers experimentally infected with the agent of epizootic bovine abortion (foothill abortion).

2012

Veterinary Clinical Pathology, 41(3), 344-352.

Coker, M. R., Rauw, W. M., Nieto, N. C., Thain, D., Teglas, M. B.

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus: Rafinesque, 1917) are sylvatic hosts for relapsing fever spirochetes (Borrelia hermsii and B. Coriaceae).

2012

Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 12(2), 99-105.

Neito, N., Teglas, M. B., Stewart, K., Wasley, T., Wolff, P. L.

The emergence and maintenance of vector-borne diseases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.

2012

Frontiers in Systems Biology, 3(250), 1-7.

Nieto, N., Khan, K., Ullah, G., Teglas, M. B.

Co-infection of Relapsing Fever Spirochetes with the Agent of Epizootic Bovine Abortion in the Tick Vector, Ornithodoros coriaceus

2011

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 25(3), 337-343.

Teglas, M. B., Mapes, S., Hodzic, E., Nieto, N. C.

Co-infection of Relapsing Fever Spirochetes with the Agent of Epizootic Bovine Abortion in the Tick Vector, Ornithodoros coriaceus.

2011

Medical and Veterinary Entomology.

Teglas, M. B., Mapes, S., Hodzic, E., Nieto, N. C.

Detection of relapsing fever spirochetes (Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia coriaceae) in free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Nevada, United States

2011

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Vol. 12, No. 2: 99-105

Nieto, N. C., Teglas, M. B., Stewart, K. M., Wasley, T., Wolff, P. L.

Co-phylogenetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and its vectors, Ixodes spp. ticks.

2008

Experimental and Applied Acarology, 45(3-4), 155-170.

Foley, J., Nieto, N., Foley, P., Teglas, M. B.

Identification and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the argasid tick Ornithodoros coriaceus.

2008

Molecular Ecology Notes, 8(2), 446-448.

Kirchoff, V., Peacock, M. M., Teglas, M. B.

Lay or Popular Publications

Management Alternatives To Minimize Foothill Abortion.

2013

The Progressive Rancher, July/August, 20-23.

Oliver, M., Nader, G., Maas, J., Blanchard, M., Stott, J., Teglas, M. B., Bushnell, R.