“A tick check is a must,” says Bob Maurais, co-owner of Mainely Ticks, a tick management service in Windham and Wells. “But tick checks have to be done the right way. Employ the sensitivity of your ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott's Ibis Biosciences today introduced a new molecular assay to detect a wide variety of vector-borne microorganisms, including those known to ...

On a quest for its next host, it grips onto high grass until one dares to brush against it. Then it hops aboard, grasps skin and cuts into the surface. At last, the tick has found its next meal. Ticks ...

On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the ...

Health officials report an increasing number of tick bites across the United States as the regions where the insects typically breed have expanded. Experts cite climate change as a major factor in the ...

Are you creeped out by chiggers and ticks? Unlike mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks can’t be swatted away. I grew up hearing information about chiggers and ticks that often left me confused and paranoid.

Abbott’s Ibis Biosciences introduced a new molecular assay to detect a wide variety of vector-borne micro-organisms, including those known to cause Lyme Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, ...