The team created a novel tick antigen library housing over 3,000 different proteins, testing each to create a target cocktail ...

According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis). Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s ...

Ixodes scapularis. Because acute infection can be asymptomatic, diagnosis can be elusive and may be delayed. This patient had several symptoms: fatigue, shortness of breath, night sweats and malaise.

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a rare and potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, has long been associated with bites ...

The study was published March 26 in Science Translational Medicine. Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick and black-legged tick, is the primary vector for several tick-borne diseases ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer ...

A tick removed from a hunting dog in Dawson County was confirmed to be the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis, also called the deer tick), which is the primary tick that carries and transmits Lyme ...