A target of 130 individual ticks per site per year are selected for pathogen testing, with the total numbers tested in a given site-year dependent on availability. Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacific
Lyme disease case-finding algorithms used with the US administrative healthcare claims data identified in the articles published in English since 2000.
Detection of B. henselae DNA in R. sanguineus larvae engorged on infected blood and in nymphs after molting and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of tick infection.
Five Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from Missouri are described. This represents the first report and characterization of such isolates from that state. The isolates were obtained from eithe
