Background. The effect of anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α treatment in Borrelia burgdorferi-infected and ceftriaxone-treated C3H/He mice was evaluated. Methods. Mice were infected with B. garinii ...

MILFORD, Conn., July 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sin Hang Lee, M.D., director of Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in Milford, Conn., announces that the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes invading ...

When Chunhao (Chris) Li joined the faculty in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, in 2005, he put UB on the map of research hotspots in the effort to better understand ...

Opsonic requirements for phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) of a laboratory strain of Borrelia hermsii were examined. Intracellular localization of spirochetes was confirmed by ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

There’s a new Borrelia bacterium on the block, joining its cousin in causing Lyme disease. B. mayonii has recently been identified as a new cause of Lyme in the Midwest. So far, the new species has ...