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Tick Saliva Genes Key To Lyme Disease Vaccine
April 9, 2002 — When a deer tick bites a human or other mammalian host, it takes more than 24 hours before the Lyme disease bacterium travels from the tick’s gut to the tick’s salivary glands and then ... > full story -
Lyme Disease Ticks Follow Rivers In Midwest
November 20, 2001 — Ticks capable of carrying the bacterium that causes Lyme disease have been slowly migrating along rivers in the Midwest, a trend that may help predict future areas at risk for the disease, say ... > full story -
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Component Of Fly Saliva Makes Promising Leishmaniasis Vaccine
August 7, 2001 — Researchers seeking to make a vaccine against a serious parasitic infection have discovered a dose of fly saliva might be just what the doctor ordered. Leishmaniasis, a disabling and sometimes deadly ... > full story -
Global Warming Linked To Increase Of Tick-Borne Encephalitis In Sweden
July 11, 2001 — The increase in incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden reported over the past two decades is directly related to the country's increasingly mild climate over the same period, conclude ... > full story -
NIAID Collaboration Yields New Test For Lyme Disease
June 19, 2001 — A new test developed with funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been shown to be highly accurate and sensitive for detecting antibodies to Lyme disease. ... > full story -
Chronic Lyme Disease Symptoms Not Helped By Intensive Antibiotic Treatment
June 13, 2001 — Results of the first randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trials testing antibiotics in patients with a stubborn form of Lyme disease-those whose symptoms persist after standard courses of ... > full story -
Golfers Beware! Deer Ticks Lurking In The Rough
May 9, 2001 — Most golfers aren't aware that they face a high risk of attracting Lyme disease from deer ticks living on the edge of the woods in and around golf courses, according to Elyes Zhioua, assistant ... > full story -
Ticks Have Potential To Transmit Cat Scratch Disease
April 13, 2001 — Cat scratch disease may no longer be the appropriate name for the malady caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have discovered evidence of ... > full story -
Virus Studies Reunite Two Families Of Major Insect-Borne Viruses
April 6, 2001 — Two families of viruses, which were previously thought to be related and later were considered unrelated, are celebrating a scientific family reunion of ... > full story -
Ancient Tick Found In New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing
March 28, 2001 — A 90-million-year-old tick recently found in the heart of New Jersey has left entomologists scratching their heads. The tick is the oldest representative of the order Parasitiformes, increasing the ... > full story
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