As the weather warms up, health experts are warning tick season is off to an early and potentially more dangerous start. With ...

There is an increasing number of blacklegged ticks with a higher-than-average infection rate of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, according to the ...

Connecticut scientists warned of increased tick activity.

The interface between spirochetes and the immune response is of significant importance to their pathogenesis and persistence. Evasion from the immune system leads to infections that present as ...

ABSTRACT: Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) remains a controversial illness. The controversy is based on a profound disagreement over the existence of persistent infection with the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia ...

Lyme bacteria can survive a 28-day course of antibiotic treatment four months following infection by tick bite, according to a new study using a primate model for the disease. Despite testing negative ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

Tharos Ltd today announced encouraging exploratory findings from a small, uncontrolled pilot evaluation of its enzyme‑rich malt extract (ERME), marketed as EquiNectar® for horses and CaniNectar® for ...

Background Morgellons disease (MD) is a complex skin disorder characterized by ulcerating lesions that have protruding or embedded filaments. Many clinicians refer to this condition as delusional ...

When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, ...

THOUGH multiple sclerosis has been recognized as a disease for over a century, its etiology has eluded all investigative efforts to date. Toxic factors, nutritional and metabolic defects, infectious ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...