The infection is almost exclusively passed to humans through the bite of a parasite, which is crucial to remove quickly ...

A new study by Fikrig and other researchers, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, uses a powerful ...

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

The development of a vaccine for Lyme disease was intensely pursued in the 1990s. However, citing a lack of demand, the first human Lyme disease vaccine was withdrawn from the market less than 5 ...

Scientists have discovered that the enzyme BbLDH is crucial for the survival and infectivity of the Lyme disease bacterium ...

In Estonia, many people learnt a lesson from ethnomedicine as children – that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

burgdorferi infection compared to 50 percent and 0 percent with the OspA protein and control mRNA, respectively. This indicated that their OspA mRNA vaccine also had greater efficacy than an OspA ...

A protein found in human sweat may offer protection from Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks, research ...