Killing ticks with targeted viruses One of the best ways to reduce the number of Lyme disease cases is using insecticides to kill ticks. Spraying loads and loads of insecticides around the countryside isn’t ideal though. What if there was a way to kill ticks without…

The Hunt for Powassan Virus Powassan virus is a deadly virus carried by Ixodes ticks.  It has been identified in ticks in the Northeast.  Currently, human Powassan virus infections in the United States are rare, but there is no treatment for the disease. Watch as the…

A Walk through Lyme: Past Present and Future Dr. Linden Hu presents his take on the history of Lyme disease at Tufts– past, present and future in his inauguration as the first Chervinsky Professor of Immunology SearchSearchHome Lyme info Ecology and life cycle…

Tickborne Diseases– New England Journal of Med. In this Double Take video from the New England Journal of Medicine, Sam Telford and Robert Smith provide a clinical overview of the various tickborne diseases commonly encountered across the United States, including Lyme…

Feeding Ticks on People: Ticks as a diagnostic tool The persistence of bacteria or its components after antibiotic therapy is controversial.  One method for detecting the presence of the organism is to use its natural vector, the Ixodes tick, to draw the bacteria out…

Eradicating Lyme with Novel Antibiotics One of the most effective ways to get rid of the Lyme bacterium in its wild hosts is to treat them with doxycycline.  However, widespread use of doxycycline in animals runs the risk of causing the development of resistance—not…