The Lancet Infectious Disease, 2016. The Mayo Clinic, in partnership with the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota health departments and the CDC, identifies a new disease-causing Borrelia, to be named Borrelia mayonii. Includes charts, images, map, tables.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975683/
Topics: 2016, Bjork, Borrelia, chart, Davis, Deedon, Feist, image, Irish, Johnson, Kingry, Lee, map, mayonii, Mead, Miller, Minnesota, Neitzel, North Dakota, Paskewitz, Patel, Petersen, Pritt, Ray, Replogle, Respicio-Kingry, Schiffman, Schriefer, Sloan, Steward, table, Theel, Wisconsin
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University of Rhode Island. Website on the identification of ticks and prevention of tick-borne illnesses. Includes detailed images.
http://www.tickencounter.org/education/tick_identification/
Topics: 2008, Arcand, borreliosis, Dyer, Herve, identification, Lyme, Mather, Miller, Mullen, prevention, Rainone, Rhode Island, Sullivan, tick
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Journal of the American Medical Association. Report on babesia infection after transfusion from an asymptomatic donor.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/281/10/927
Topics: 1999, Ali, Babesia, babesiosis, blood, Boctor, Dobroszycki, Eberhard, Graham, Herwaldt, Linden, Miller, Tanowitz, test, Weiss, Wittner, Yoon
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Clinical Infectious Diseases. Elisa and western blot testing accuracy is discussed, including false positives and the need to do both tests together. Includes tables.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/313688
Topics: 2001, Aguero-Rosenfeld, antibody, blot, borreliosis, Carbonaro, ELISA, Lyme, Miller, Nadelman, Nowakowski, Sivak, test, Wormser
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