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Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by a spiral shaped bacterium called a spirochete. This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini. The tick becomes infected ...
That’s because they can spend the winter hiding beneath leaf litter and snow cover that insulates them from harsh conditions, ...
But the numbers of blacklegged ticks, the main transmitters of the Lyme disease bacteria ... testing in New Brunswick Don't throw away that deer tick. Researchers at Mount Allison want to ...
There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.
Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on the rise? Are there eco-friendly ways to control ticks?
It’s long been known that ticks, particularly black-legged or deer ticks, carry Lyme Disease. They pick it up in their pupa or larval stages and pass it on to their sources of food like deer.
Lyme disease is spreading across the U.S. as ticks expand their range, thanks in part to expanding deer populations and a warming climate.
The five-year funding will support research into how disease-causing bacteria adapt to bypass their host’s immune system.
BlueArc Biosciences has been a winner in all three phases so far of the LymeX Diagnostics Prize competition as it works on ‘a better’ diagnostic test ...