Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick and black-legged tick, is the primary vector for several tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and Powassan virus ...

According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis). Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s ...

Two cases of alpha-gal syndrome suggest that the lone star tick isn’t the only species in the United States capable of triggering an allergy to red meat.

The team created a novel tick antigen library housing over 3,000 different proteins, testing each to create a target cocktail ...

A recent study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases has revealed a concerning development in tick-borne allergies ... that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) may be responsible for ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer ...

The current research focuses on two challenges in preventing and diagnosing tick-borne diseases ... tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans ...