The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was investigating spirochetes in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected from Shelter Island, New York. The species was later named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor.
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of…
Borrelia miyamotoi was first described in 1995 by Fukunaga and colleagues from Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected in Hokkaido, Japan, and…
Borrelia miyamotoi disease shares a vector with Lyme disease - the same Ixodes species - but presents differently: high fevers that recur…
A single Ixodes scapularis nymph the size of a poppy seed can deliver Borrelia burgdorferi after roughly 36 to 48 hours of attachment.…
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
Roughly 95 percent of confirmed Lyme disease cases in the United States are reported from 14 high-incidence states clustered in the…