In order to understand the population structure and dynamics of bacterial microorganisms,
typing systems that accurately reflect the phylogenetic and evolutionary relationship of the …

Use of emerging technology allowing for identification of genetic material from pathogens
and endosymbionts in ticks collected from humans, domestic animals, wildlife, or the …

The geographic pattern of human risk for infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the
tick-borne pathogen that causes Lyme disease, was mapped for the eastern United States …

Since the discovery of the Lyme disease spirochete in North America in 1982 and in Europe
in 1983, a plethora of studies on this unique group of spirochetes that comprise Borrelia …

Babesiosis is a zoonosis caused by tick-transmitted intraerythrocytic protozoa of the Phylum
Apicomplexa. The disease mostly occurs in the USA, but cases have also been reported in …

Using the vector tick, Ixodes dammini, we described the reservoir competence of the white-
footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, for the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi …

Human babesiosis is an important emerging tick-borne disease. Babesia divergens, a
parasite of cattle, has been implicated as the most common agent of human babesiosis in …

A human-derived strain of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, a recently described
emerging rickettsial disease, has been established by serial blood passage in mouse hosts …

To determine whether deer may serve as reservoir hosts for the Lyme disease spirochete,
we sought evidence of infection in nymphal Ixodes dammini derived from larvae that had …

To determine whether the abundance of the northern deer tick, Ixodes dammini is
dependent upon that of white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus (Boddaert), the host most …