Some excitement is reported to have occurred in sanitary circles over a certificate issued on Sunday setting forth that relapsing fever had resulted in the death of a child in a tenement-house ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Researchers at the lab also test for diseases carried by deer ticks, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, hard tick relapsing fever, and the Powassan virus. The virus, which can be deadly ...

Some rare tick-borne illnesses have been found in Pennsylvania, as well. They include: – Hard tick relapsing fever, a rare illness caused by Borrelia miyamotoi bacteria. Symptoms can include ...