Several hard tick-transmitted Borrelia species cause human disease. While Borrelia
burgdorferi sensu stricto (hereafter referred to as B. burgdorferi) is the most common cause …

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States and
is transmitted by Ixodes scapularis in the eastern US and I. pacificus in the west. The …

Abstract The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national tick and tick-borne
pathogen surveillance program collects information to better understand the regional …

The genus Bartonella includes a group of species that are associated with a wide range of
mammalian species, including human. It is challenging to detect all Bartonella species using …

Anaplasmosis is increasingly common in the United States, with cases being reported over
an expanding geographic area. To monitor for changes in risk of human infection, the US …

Borrelia miyamotoi is a tick-transmitted spirochete that is genetically grouped with relapsing
fever Borrelia and possesses multiple archived pseudogenes that encode variable major …

The burden of tick-borne diseases continues to increase in the United States. Tick
surveillance has been implemented to monitor changes in the distribution and prevalence of …

Rapid environmental change in Alaska and other regions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic has
raised concerns about increasing human exposure to ticks and the pathogens they carry …

Borrelia miyamotoi is a hard tick-associated relapsing fever spirochete that is geographically
widespread in Ixodes spp.(Acari: Ixodidae) ticks, but typically occurs at low prevalence …

Human anaplasmosis cases, caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, are increasing in the
United States. This trend is explained, in part, by expansion in the geographic range of the …