We used 1265 yard surveys conducted in 2011鈥 2024 to document the timing and pattern of lone star tick establishment on the island of Martha's Vineyard (MV), Massachusetts. Increases in lone star ticks coincided with new cases of ehrlichiosis and reports of the alpha gal ...
last year's deadly attack off Bailey Island in southern Maine got beach lovers, those that work on the water, and the Maine Department of Marine Resources concerned. Concerned enough for the Maine DMR to develop a partnership with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in Massachusetts and set up...
Massachusetts, USA) [37]. PCR cycling conditions comprised of a denaturation step at 95 °C for 5 min followed by 45 cycles at 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 15 s and 40 °C for 10 s. One negative control (water) was included per chip. Detection of ticks’16Sgene served as a p...
scapularis ticks were submitted to TickReport from Massachusetts residents. The infection rate of B. burgdorferi, A. phagocytophilum, and B. microti was 39%, 8%, and 7% in adult ticks; 23%, 6%, and 5% in nymphal ticks, respectively. A relatively higher level of educatio...
Ticks are "ambush predators," explained Stephen Rich, a public health entomologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They can't jump or fly onto their hosts, he said. Instead, they hang out on a branch or a blade of grass with their legs outstretched—a behavior known as "questin...
Briefly, for DNA pathogens, nucleic acids were detected using the SYBR™ Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems™, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) in a QuantStudio™ 3 Real-Time PCR System (Applied Biosystems™) with a thermal cycling profile consisting of an initial denaturation/DNA ...
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC) have published new findings on Powassan virus, an emerging tick-borne illness that can cause life-threatening encephalitis and