Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...

Company on track to initiate a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive Phase 2 field study in the first half of 2027, pending FDA ...

By the time April’s first warm weekends drew hikers into the woods across the Northeast, emergency rooms were already seeing ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered a novel mechanism by which Borrelia bacteria distributed by ticks avoid the human immune defence system. A study conducted at the University ...

During a decade practicing medicine in Brazil, I managed severe outcomes of vector-borne pathogens. Dengue, malaria, yellow ...

"We need to develop better antimicrobial treatments for these suffering patients, and we need to do it now." ...

Inside a cell it is so crowded that a certain protein from borrelia winds up being crunched. From having been like an oblong rugby football, it gets bent and then collapses into a lump. At this point ...

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 ...

Lyme disease isn’t the only thing to get ticked off about this summer. A new tick-borne illness is making the rounds in the Northeastern U.S., confounding doctors who may not know to test for it. New ...

The most common tick-borne disease in humans is Lyme borreliosis. Extensive field and laboratory tests have revealed that the Borrelia bacterium is present in a larger proportion of ticks than has ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki under the direction of Docent Taru Meri uncovered a mechanism by which Borrelia bacteria are able to evade human immune defences. The mechanism ...