This work was supported by a public health service grant NIH R01 AI093653 to JHF Pedra. MS Severo has a PhD fellowship of the American Association of University Women. The authors have no other ...

Future Microbiol. 2012;7(6):719-731. 1 Department of Entomology & Center for Disease Vector Research, 900 University Avenue, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA 2 Institute ...

An important advancement toward developing a vaccine against the debilitating and potentially deadly tick-transmitted disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis has been made by scientists. Successful ...

RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 12, 2012) – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified the "keys" and "doors" of a bacterium responsible for a series of tick-transmitted ...

The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is urging residents to protect themselves from ticks after a tick was identified with Anaplasma phagocytophilum bacteria for the first time in the region. The ...

There are tick-borne diseases beyond what causes Lyme disease. Different geographies have differing prevalence’s of tick-borne infections. In the northeastern USA, some of the other infectious agents ...

Human granulocytic anaplasmosis should be considered in patients with a history of tick bite who present with fever, headache, elevated transaminases, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia. Diagnosis ...