Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...

Zecken können nicht nur das FSME-Virus übertragen, das die Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis verursacht, sondern auch Borrelien, in unseren Breiten vor allem Borrelia burgdorferi. Die Bakterien lösen die ...

Understanding that bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, requires basic research before creating diagnostics or vaccines, slow progress that is frustrating for people affected by the chronic fatigue ...

Ticks that spread the Lyme-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi are most active when temperatures exceed 45 F, and they like a minimum of 85% humidity. Some places in the world where ticks have ...

In mice, a low dose of piperacillin turned out to be at least as good as doxycycline for clearing Borrelia burgdorferi, and it reduced joint swelling. Second, a separate report supported the idea ...

Now, Northwestern University scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the Borrelia burgdorferi (the ...

Less noticed has been Kennedy's promotion of a theory close to Long Island: Was Lyme disease developed at a government lab on Plum Island, which sits a mile off the North Fork? On his podcast ...

The bacteria from Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. group, which cause Lyme disease in humans, are found in an increasing proportion of ticks in Estonia. The likelihood of contracting Lyme disease ...

Its causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, has evolved unique metabolic pathways to cope with its enzootic life cycle, some of which are specific and ideal targets for developing new ways to ...

Its causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, has evolved unique metabolic pathways to cope with its enzootic life cycle, some of which are specific and ideal targets for developing new ways to ...

Lyme disease in children and adults results from the bacteria group Borrelia burgdorferi. These bacteria transmit to humans through the bite of infected black-legged ticks, known as deer ticks in ...

Lyme disease is spread through the bites of ticks infected with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. According to PetMD, between 1.4 percent and 13.3 percent of dogs in the U.S. contract the disease.