For humans Lyme borreliosis is the most frequent vector borne bacterial infection in the Northern hemisphere (1). It is spread by indigenous hard bodied ticks with a broad range of potential host ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while up to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

Vectors include animals and microorganisms ... For instance, ticks can carry Lyme disease, and some mosquitoes can carry yellow fever, malaria, and dengue fever. When a mosquito bites a person ...

Funding from the National Institutes of Health will allow a Montana State University research team to deepen explorations into a disease that is posing an increasing threat in the U.S. Lyme disease ...