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LYMESCI: Increase of infected ticks means higher risk of tick bites

OCT

2018

More ticks in more places means more tick bites.

...vae, were found to be infected with both Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi. On the East Coast, B. burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease, was predominantly detected in adult Ixodes scapularis (deer tick). On the West Coast,... Read More »

LYME SCI: Lyme-carrying ticks in West differ from their Eastern cousins

MAR

2022

...he San Francisco Bay Area have shown that the average infection rate of B. miyamotoi (5.1%) in I. pacificus ticks is higher than the rate of B. burgdorferi (1.3%). Although, depending on the location, infection rates for B.... Read More »

Seven provocative findings on Lyme disease, brains and placentas

AUG

2016

...parate or isolated from Lyme disease. The best example of this is Borrelia miyamotoi. It is found in hard-shelled ticks just like Lyme disease, but it is a Relapsing Fever borrelia. It took over 10 years for microbiologists to place... Read More »

IGeneX immunoblot tests find Lyme in Australian blood samples

FEB

2019

...g-fever/index.html 2 US Centre for Disease Control information on Borrelia miyamotoi https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/miyamotoi.html 3 Loh, S. M., Gofton, A. W., Lo, N., Gillett, A., Ryan, U. M., Irwin, P. J., & Oskam,... Read More »

Study: “Beaches can no longer be considered safe havens from ticks”

APR

2021

...ia burgdorferi sensu lato alone was 2.9% (95% CI = 2.3-3.7%), and Borrelia miyamotoi in adult ticks occurred at a lower prevalence than B. burgdorferi sensu lato: 1.3% (95% CI = 0.8-1.8%). However, prevalence of B.... Read More »