Thursday 1 September 2022

Veterinary Medicine Offers Potential as New Tool to Reduce Lyme Disease | Entomology Today

blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) questing

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Ticks acquire the pathogen that causes Lyme disease from mice and other small mammals. A new study shows that a drug for protecting pets from ticks could be deployed in rodent baits to interrupt the host-to-vector transmission cycle.

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