ticks

July 8, 2014 | Krista Brick

Forty-Five Ticks Found in Quince Orchard Test

When Ahmed Kilani set out in his Quince Orchard Park neighborhood on a quest for ticks, he didn’t think they would be hard to find. He was right. On a hot day June 24, Dr. Kilani and a team of scientists from his company Clongen Laboratories, Inc. of Gaithersburg found 45 ticks in a tick drag […]

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June 24, 2014 | Krista Brick

A Quick Catch: Tick Drag Nets Results

It didn’t take long to find the first few ticks in a daylong tick hunt in Quince Orchard Park Tuesday. Dr. Ahmed Kilani, president of Clongen Laboratories of Gaithersburg, is on the hunt to find out if his neighborhood has a tick problem. He has 15 spots picked out to do the drag which consists […]

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June 20, 2014 | Krista Brick

image of a tick on human skin, the cause of Lyme Disease

Counting Ticks: Gaithersburg Doctor Plans Tick Drag in Quince Orchard Park

Dr. Ahmed Kilani gets about 25 ticks a day. They come to him in plastic baggies, via FedEx trucks and even hand delivered. That’s because his company Clongen Laboratories in Gaithersburg is one of the premier labs in the country that tests, label and catalogs ticks’ DNA for diseases like Lyme. Lately, tick bites in […]

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