0 News: Dr. Monica Embers At ILADS 2012 Conference

In Boston in November 2012, ILADS will be conducting its conference on Lyme disease, other tickborne infections, and related topics. One presenter who is scheduled to speak remotely at the conference on November 2 is Dr. Monica Embers, one of the researchers who co-authored the paper, "Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection". Dr. Embers is a research assistant professor  in the Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology at Tulane National Primate Research Center,...

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0 Lyme Disease Is For The Birds

A hat tip goes to the the bird-banding team stationed at the Auburn Sportsman’s Club in Auburn, Massachusetts. This little-known group of volunteers has toiled for tens of thousands of hours every spring and fall to collect ticks from birds around the region and submit them for analysis for the presence of tickborne diseases. A recent article in the Worcester Telegram, "Outdoors: Lyme disease research is paying off", written by bird-banding researcher, Mark Blazis, outlines the history of studying ticks found on birds for evidence that birds...

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