Doctors explain everything you need to know about Lyme disease and what to do if you find a tick attached to your skin.

After decades of trial and error, a promising new target for Lyme disease vaccine is emerging—the Lyme bacterial protein CspZ, which the bacteria use to evade detection from the body’s immune system.

Powassan virus is primarily transmitted to humans by one of Minnesota’s 13 tick species: the blacklegged tick, also known as ...

Conclusions Our study using multiple detection methods confirms that MD is a true somatic illness associated with Borrelia spirochetes that cause Lyme disease. Further studies are needed to ...

Box 1. Nomenclature of Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato genospecies. Box 2. Operational definition of chronic Lyme disease published by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness ... targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of the Borrelia burgdorfii bacteria that causes the disease. It has already generated positive ...

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Americans have been issued a warning over two specific species of tick to look out for right now following a surge in the ...

As warmer months are approaching, a local health expert has started sounding the alarm on the dangers of tick season — ...

Researchers have engineered Lyme bacterial protein, CspZ, to produce a robust immune response in mice for vaccine development.

Immunizing mice with an edited Lyme disease-causing bacterial protein effectively protected them against the disease.