New cause for Lyme disease complicates already murky diagnosis
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Erik Karatis / Shutterstock The castor bean tick or sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus, can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
Erik Karatis / Shutterstock The castor bean tick or sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus, can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
Tick-borne Lyme disease in the U.S. has long been thought to be caused by a single microbe, a spiral-shaped bacterium called…