Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and ...

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Pfizer is the closest company to producing a Lyme disease vaccine. Experts are concerned that vaccine skepticism could stand in its way.

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Lyme disease from deer ticks can cause complications if untreated, with symptoms appearing weeks after infection. Experts ...

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The single-tier test uses artificial intelligence to accurately detect Lyme disease from the first few weeks of infection ...

Lyme disease is caused by the bite of a blacklegged tick and the western blacklegged tick – which carry the bacterial species Borrelia burgdorferi. Regions where Lyme disease-carrying ticks are ...

This undated provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer ...

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. This corkscrew-shaped bacteria is spread through the bite of an infected black-legged tick, or deer tick, lxodes scapularis, in the ...