Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. and Europe, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. A new study may ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, ...

A team of scientists has zeroed in on an enzyme that could revolutionize Lyme disease treatment. By uncovering the crucial ...

Targeting a key enzyme in the microorganism responsible for the disease could stop both its growth and ability to infect ...

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University discovered an enzyme, lactate dehydrogenase , as a potential therapeutic ...

Existing projects are also on hold because research institutions cannot be certain they will be continued, or if they absorb ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, and ...

The finding was reported in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States and Europe. Its causative ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Brian Stevenson, a microbiology professor at the University of Kentucky, studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks. He had three ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...