diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index cde90e7..b61e1d0 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import EBIProteinTransformer from "./transformers/ebi_protein_transformer";
 import JQTransformer from "./transformers/jq_transformer";
 import { BTEQueryObject } from "./types";
 import { Record } from "./record";
-import Debug from "debug";
+import { Debug } from "@biothings-explorer/utils";
 const debug = Debug("bte:api-response-transform:index");
 export * from "./record";
 export * from "./types";
diff --git a/src/transformers/transformer.ts b/src/transformers/transformer.ts
index 02f1df3..7c4c3ba 100644
--- a/src/transformers/transformer.ts
+++ b/src/transformers/transformer.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { BTEKGOperationObject, BTEQueryObject } from "../types";
 import { Record } from "../record";
 import { FrozenRecord } from "../record";
 import * as _ from "lodash";
-import Debug from "debug";
+import { Debug } from "@biothings-explorer/utils";
 import async from "async";
 const debug = Debug("bte:api-response-transform:transformer");