Borrelia miyamotoi disease shares a vector with Lyme disease - the same Ixodes species - but presents differently: high fevers that recur in waves, often without the erythema migrans rash. Standard Lyme serology misses it. PCR is the diagnostic test of choice; doxycycline treats both.
Borrelia miyamotoi was first described in 1995 by Fukunaga and colleagues from Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected in Hokkaido, Japan, and…
Because Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi share the same vector and the same reservoir mice, a single Ixodes scapularis bite can…
The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was…
Southern tick-associated rash illness produces an expanding red rash that looks indistinguishable from early Lyme disease, but it follows…
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
The textbook bullseye rash with central clearing appears in only about 20 to 30 percent of erythema migrans cases. The more common…