ALLMedicine™ Tick-borne Diseases Center

May 20th, 2022 - The Army uses permethrin-treated uniforms as the primary method to protect soldiers from tick-borne diseases. Permethrin binds strongly to fabric and provides long-term protection against many blood-feeding arthropods. However, protection decrease...

May 17th, 2022 - Tick-borne diseases (TBD), including spotted fever group rickettsiosis (SFGR), ehrlichiosis, and, increasingly, Lyme disease, represent a substantial public health concern throughout much of the southeastern United States. Yet, there is uncertaint...

May 2nd, 2022 - In the south-central United States, several tick-borne diseases (TbDs) occur at or near their highest levels of incidence of anywhere in the U.S. The diversity of Rickettsia species found in Amblyomma americanum continues to be under-characterized...

Apr 24th, 2022 - Tick-borne diseases, and especially Lyme Disease (LD), are on the rise in Canada and have been met with increasing public health concern. To face these emerging threats, education on the prevention of tick bites remains the mainstay of public heal...

Apr 23rd, 2022 - Ticks and tick-borne diseases constitute a real threat for the livestock industry, which is increasing in Angola. In addition, ticks are vectors of zoonoses of public health concern, and scarce information is available from this country. In an eff...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are a serious public health problem in the US. Immune responses to multiple tick bites or multiple tick exposures can induce tick-resistance (manifested by reduced numbers and body weights of engorged ticks or tick death...

Mar 11th, 2022 - Tick bites can transmit a remarkable array of pathogens, including bacteria, spirochetes, rickettsiae, protozoa, viruses, nematodes, and toxins. Ticks are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, both infectious and toxic. A bite can...

Feb 4th, 2022 -   Editor’s note: This story was updated on February 4, 2022, to correct a fact about deer abundance. Deer can often be more abundant, not less, in fragmented areas of forests. On a warm spring day, disease ecologist Daniel Salkeld is hiking the hi...

Aug 20th, 2021 - Patients with Lyme disease are at increased risk for any mental disorder, for affective disorders, and for suicidal behavior, new research suggests. Results from a large population-based study show that the rate of depression was 42% higher among ...

Jul 13th, 2021 - I'm on vacation in "paradise," in mid-coast Maine, and became ill last week. Many things ran through my head, not the least of which was, Where am I going to get care? How do you find a competent physician when you don't know people? My symptoms w...

May 7th, 2021 - May 7, 2021 — Planning to hit the beach this summer? You might want to throw some bug spray into that beach bag along with your sunscreen. For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks — typically associated with woodlands in New England and oth...