Meeting the unmet need for a vaccine is the top priority for researchers studying Lyme disease, which infects about 476,000 ...

A new study by Fikrig and other researchers, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, uses a powerful ...

Lyme disease alone infects 500,000 Americans annually, and warmer temperatures from climate change mean tick species are expanding beyond their traditional habitats.

Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. and Europe, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. A new study may ...

In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...

The prospect of Lyme disease is no joke. About 47% of the adult ticks that the St. Joseph County Department of Health has collected since 2017 have tested positive for the bacteria that leads to Lyme ...

While the arrival of warmer weather brings the opportunity to spend more time lounging on your lawn or hiking woodsy trails, we’re not the only ones excited about the long, warm days ahead ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...

MARCH 28, 2022 — UTSA graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the College of Sciences will have the opportunity to develop methods to prevent or reduce tick-borne infections with the support of ...