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A ticking time bomb hidden in plain sight

Published:2023-10-18 Issue:718 Volume:15 Page:
ISSN:1946-6234
Container-title:Science Translational Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Transl. Med.

Author:

Narasimhan Sukanya¹^ORCID,Fish Durland²³,Pedra Joao H. F.⁴^ORCID,Pal Utpal⁵^ORCID,Fikrig Erol¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

2. Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06420, USA.

3. American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc., New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

4. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

5. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

Abstract

The deer tick transmits nearly half of the known tick-borne pathogens in the United States, and its expanding geographic range increases the risk of human infection. To decrease the abundance of and infection risk from deer ticks, approaches that include vaccines for human use and for animal hosts are desired.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/scitranslmed.adi7829

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