A warming climate is driving a rise in Lyme disease and the introduction of lesser-known tick-borne diseases, public health ...

Ixodes schulzei Aragão & Fonseca is an endemic tick to Brazil and has already been reported in the northern (State of Rondonia), southeastern (States of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo) and ...

Species found in some other parts of the world, notably Ixodes holocyclus of Australia, produce a very potent neurotoxin and symptoms may not subside as quickly, even worsening after removal. [5] ...

By Sean Lawrence West Virginia University When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, stalking you on weekend hikes or afternoons in the park. Your fear is well-founded ...

While western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) tend to swarm in large forest preserves, the Lyme-causing bacterium is actually more prevalent in small, isolated patches of greenery. In these ...

Lyme Disease Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted in North America by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) or western blacklegged ticks (Ixodes pacificus). Common ...

While western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) tend to swarm in large forest preserves, the Lyme-causing bacterium is actually more prevalent in small, isolated patches of greenery.

But competition for housing has pushed human settlement deeper into wildland areas to the north, south and east of the city, reshaping tick ecology there. A range map for the western black-legged tick ...