With Lyme disease cases climbing steadily in Canada, the lack of an available vaccine has become a pressing concern among infectious disease specialists. Getting bitten by a tick means risking a potential infection with...
Researchers collected three species of ticks from multiple locations in Suffolk County, Long Island, and identified a high prevalence of polymicrobial infections capable of causing human disease. More than half of...
The bacteria that cause Lyme disease are able to trick an animal’s immune system into not launching a full-blown immune response or developing lasting immunity to the disease, report researchers at the University of...