Borrelia miyamotoi was first described in 1995 by Fukunaga and colleagues from Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected in Hokkaido, Japan, and named for Japanese microbiologist Kenji Miyamoto. It is unusual: a relapsing-fever-group spirochete that is carried by hard ticks rather than soft ones, including the same Ixodes species that transmit Lyme disease.
Borrelia miyamotoi disease shares a vector with Lyme disease - the same Ixodes species - but presents differently: high fevers that recur…
The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was…
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
Southern tick-associated rash illness produces an expanding red rash that looks indistinguishable from early Lyme disease, but it follows…
Ixodes pacificus is the western counterpart of Ixodes scapularis, found from British Columbia south through the Pacific states. It…
A single Ixodes scapularis nymph the size of a poppy seed can deliver Borrelia burgdorferi after roughly 36 to 48 hours of attachment.…