Multiple Infections Found In Ticks

Ticks can harbor many infections and can transmit one or more to humans and animals if they are bitten. For example, the study quoted below shows some of the different infections detected in ticks collected from New York and Connecticut.

April 2019- Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut

Rafal Tokarz^a,⁎, Teresa Tagliafierro^a, Stephen Sameroff^a, D. Moses Cucura^b, Alexandra Oleynik^a, Xiaoyu Che^a, Komal Jain^a, W. Ian Lipkin^a

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^{https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31023629}

Last Updated- April 2019

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