To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

Brian Stevenson, a microbiology professor at the University of Kentucky, studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped ...

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks and the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the ...

Then, it would be easier to go in and invade the country. The Lyme disease bacterium was named after William Burgdorfer, who discovered it in the 1980s. “I never could find proof that the Lyme ...

The five-year funding will support research into how disease-causing bacteria adapt to bypass their host’s immune system.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can spread to humans if a tick carrying the bacteria bites a person. Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria are the main cause of Lyme disease. The most common ...

Without treatment, it can lead to other infections, such as sepsis. Lyme disease is an illness caused by a bacteria transmitted through tick bites. In the United States, Lyme disease is most ...

The type of tick most commonly known to carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been identified in eastern Montana, according to new National Institutes of Health (NIH) research. […] ...

In contrast, recent studies indicate that MD is a true somatic illness associated with tickborne infection ... with Borrelia spirochetes that cause Lyme disease. Further studies are needed ...

Dear EarthTalk: "Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on ...