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Several vaccines and new treatments are in the works as the ticks that carry the disease spread to new locations. Here’s what you need to know about tick bites and your risk of infection.
Clearly, there is a need for more investigation, but I suspect that many of the teens afflicted with mental illness in the U.S. are suffering from brains on fire. Their illness may present as emotional, but the cause may be organic. In the next installment, I will...
We know, it sounds gross, but it can help a doctor identify the tick (there are different species in different parts of the US for example), which could help your treatment, and stop you from ending up thoroughly ticked off. Where on your body will ticks try and bite you?
There have been no allergic reactions since. “I have one grandchild that watches me like a hawk," she said, making sure she reads packaged food labels and avoids foods that could trigger a reaction. “I feel very lucky, really, that this has worked out for me," she...
1a). This strongly suggested not only that are there pathway(s) capable of converting ManNAc, and probably GalNAc, to GlcNAc, but also that ManNAc was an unlikely candidate. Next, we took a more holistic approach and performed monosaccharide analysis of purified peptidoglycan isolated from B. ...
In theory, Ostfeld’s early warning system gives public health officials a two-year window to prepare. In many other cases, this would be enough time to roll out a vaccination programme. But there is no human vaccine for Lyme disease. Why not? And what can you do to protect...
Where there is clinical suspicion or high risk, testing for hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus, Lyme disease, or rickettsia is warranted. A recent study characterizing the causes of raised troponin in those 50 years or less including 6,081 patients showed that myocarditis was the second ...
There were multifocal abscesses throughout the remaining brain parenchyma, angiocentric accumulations of leukocytes, vasculitis, meningitis, and gliosis. Many tissue sections revealed immature and mature meronts. When examined by both LM and TEM, meronts were seen to locate in the cytoplasm of ...
The Kruskal-Wallis test was applied to test the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference in mean qAF between the groups. The pairwise Wilcox test was used for post hoc analysis and the Bonferroni method for adjustment. The paired t-test was used to test for difference between ...