Whole-genome sequencing of the Tyrolean Iceman Otzi - a 5,300-year-old natural mummy from the Italian Alps - recovered roughly 60 percent of the Borrelia burgdorferi genome from his tissue. Otzi is the oldest known human case of Lyme borreliosis, predating Allen Steere's Old Lyme work by more than five millennia.
The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was…
Borrelia miyamotoi was first described in 1995 by Fukunaga and colleagues from Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected in Hokkaido, Japan, and…
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of…
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…