How to identify bug bites 1. Bees While bees make most people scream, thrash their arms, and run, the ‘lil buzzers aren’t ...

In the far western United States of America, Ixodes pacificus is the primary vector of several pathogens of public health and veterinary importance including the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia ...

The clinical trial for the potential vaccine, VLA15, began in August 2022. Stage 3 trials got underway in late 2023, ...

For example, the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria causing Lyme disease, in adult ticks increased from about 31% to nearly 54% in New York between 2007 and 2021. In northern reaches of ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2007;56(12):4216-4225. Lyme disease in the U.S. is caused by a form of bacteria, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, infecting humans by tick bites. It typically ...

Lyme disease is caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, which ticks can transmit to humans through a bite. It’s treatable, but early detection is key. 2:16 Woman opts for assisted death ...

Stevenson U Kentucky ($99,470 to Bates) 2019-2020 NIH R21 “Using Fluorescence Nanoscopy to Study RNA Localization in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Spirochete that Causes Lyme Disease” ($372,639 total) ...

A combination of antibody binding to a library of linear, diverse peptides and machine learning methods revealed a panel of biomarker proteins from the proteome of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium ...

European Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb). LNB can manifest weeks or months after a tick bite that only half of the patients remember. The ...