Recurring fever? Consider soft tick relapsing fever (STRF), a Borrelia bacteria infection transmitted to humans by way of soft-bodied ticks that, while rare, has been seen across western and ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. They detected two pathogens, those responsible for paratyphoid fever ...

The series of events that happen inside the human body when someone is bitten by a disease-carrying tick is immensely complex. Spiral-shaped bacteria from the Borrelia family can lead to a variety of ...

Researchers suspect a 75-year-old Alabama man came down with tickborne relapsing fever after being bitten by a lone star tick. James Gathany / CDC An Alabama man who came down with a rare tickborne ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

While antibiotic treatment is highly effective, soft rick relapsing fever (STRF) can result in severe health complications, including death, if not treated in a timely manner. The authors of a recent ...

A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) is endemic to the mountainous regions of the western United States, particularly ...

A man in California had recurrent fevers that came and went during a three-month period. He had the state's first documented infection with the tick-borne bacteria Borrelia miyamotoi. These infections ...

A team of experts believe they’ve confirmed the first U.S. case of tickborne illness caused by a particular bacteria. The case involved a 75-year-old Alabama man who likely caught the germ from a lone ...

IN this account of the Serbian epidemics of typhus and relapsing fever in 1915, Col. William Hunter makes a very interesting and valuable contribution to the medical literature of the war. The Serbian ...

Plus–minus values are means ±SD. To convert the values for bilirubin to micromoles per liter, multiply by 17.1. ALT denotes alanine aminotransferase, ICU intensive care unit, IQR interquartile range, ...

Nearly half of more than 2,000 deer ticks collected last year for a new study in Connecticut were infected with Lyme disease. Of 2,068 deer ticks tested at the Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic ...