Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

Montana has long been home to the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks, however, are much smaller and the disease they ...

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Over 90 tick species are widespread across the United States, out of an estimated 850 worldwide. According to the CDC, the annual number of new cases of Lyme disease in the United States is rapidly ...

R. conorii conorrii Rh. sanguineus (I. ricinus) Mediterranean spotted fever Rash (97%); single eschar; case–fatality rate without treatment (0–18%) R. conorii israelensis Rh. sanguineus ...

On the left is the common wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) found throughout Montana that can transmit organisms causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Colorado tick fever. On the right is the tick ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(1):33-50. Despite the proven efficacy of these regimens, there still is much controversy about the treatment of two poorly defined entities: chronic Lyme ...

The Kinder Tick helps Victorian families find a funded kindergarten program for their children. When you see the Kinder Tick, you can be confident: the program will be led by a qualified teacher ...

Tick bites allow disease-causing microbes, including multiple species of Rickettsia bacteria, to pass from arthropods to humans. Being exposed to Rickettsia parkeri, for example, can cause a scab at ...