A new study finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of the younger ticks in the Northeast US carry the bacteria ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

A total of 235 patients with symptoms greater than 12 weeks were seen for evaluation (Figure 1). Of these, 35 (15%) had alternative, non-Lyme diagnoses which explained their presenting signs and ...

Debilitating cognitive and physical symptoms left her undiagnosed after numerous scans and tests. Eventually, doctors discovered the culprit: Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria behind Lyme disease ...

For example, following bacterial pneumonia nonspecific symptoms that impair quality ... Nomenclature of Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato genospecies. Box 2. Operational definition of chronic ...