The tick-borne borreliae are the causative agents of relapsing fever and Lyme disease worldwide. Borrelia spirochaetes are motile, helical, microaerophilic organisms that have flagellae located within ...

But now a new study, whose lead author is Eva Sapi, professor and head of biology and environmental science at the University of New Haven, suggests that the reason the Borrelia spirochetes that cause ...

Lyme bacteria can survive a 28-day course of antibiotic treatment four months following infection by tick bite, according to a new study using a primate model for the disease. Despite testing negative ...

There’s a new Borrelia bacterium on the block, joining its cousin in causing Lyme disease. B. mayonii has recently been identified as a new cause of Lyme in the Midwest. So far, the new species has ...

When Chunhao (Chris) Li joined the faculty in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, in 2005, he put UB on the map of research hotspots in the effort to better understand ...

When an infected tick bites a human, the waiting spirochetes—which live essentially dormant in the tick’s gut until environmental cues such as changes in temperature and oxygen availability awaken ...

...the B. burgdorferi antigens were shown to be immunogenic and inflammatory... Lyme disease caused by infection with the spirochaetal bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi is generally responsive to ...

Rockville, MD – Three centuries after a pioneering Dutch microbiologist first observed the spiral-shaped oral pathogen Treponema denticola, scientists have deciphered the bacterium's entire DNA ...

A broad differential should be maintained in the returning traveller with fever, and a detailed travel, social and exposure history elicited to help guide appropriate diagnostics. Spirochetes seen in ...

In August 2012, a previously healthy 34-year-old insect ecologist in her 31st week of pregnancy presented to an obstetrics clinic in Toronto, Ontario, with a 2-day history of fever, chills, nausea, ...