Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

Technology Networks interviewed Dr. Pooja Swali, the first author of a new study that conducted a pangenome analysis to trace ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria ...

Most relapsing fever bacteria that infect humans are spread by ticks, but Borrelia recurrentis is unique in being transmitted between humans via body ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

People don’t think much about ticks until one turns up on their dog or their own skin. But these little things are more than ...

Over the past several years, we’ve all learned more about the potentially dangerous consequences of being bitten by a tick.

The blacklegged tick is perhaps the biggest threat because it’s the only tick species that can transmit Lyme disease, a ...

This morning the Chafee Board of County commissioners made an official proclamation highlighting the importance of awareness ...

Other common tick-borne diseases in the United States include ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, and tularemia.