Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno • The value of obtaining a highly contiguous and accurate genome assembly up to chromosome ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] Erythema migrans developed at the site of the tick bite in a significantly smaller proportion of the subjects in the ...

New research led by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) advances the goals of creating a diagnostic test and vaccines for tick-borne diseases. The study was published March 26 in Science Translational ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the tick that transmits Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in North America. An international team of scientists led by Purdue University has ...

Nicholas H. Ogden; Laurie St-Onge; Ian K. Barker; Stéphanie Brazeau; Michel Bigras-Poulin; Dominique F. Charron; Charles M. Francis; Audrey Heagy; L. Robbin Lindsay ...

A female “Ixodes scapularis” also called deer tick or blacklegged tick, as seen from above. Did you know that the blood-sucking parasite known as the tick is actually nearly 900 different species? Or ...

Global warming may be a boon for the ticks that transmit Lyme disease. In the last few decades, the deer tick Ixodes scapularis has fanned out across the northeastern United States and southeastern ...

Can Dogs Get Lyme Disease? Both humans and dogs can get Lyme disease through infection of the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The infection spreads through deer tick bites, known as Ixodes scapularis ...

These "black-legged ticks", Ixodes scapularis, really suck and can carry the Babesia parasite, which can cause babesiosis. Image courtesy CDC/Michael L. Levin, Ph. D. 1990. (Photo by Smith ...