(New Bumper Sticker: "Spirochetes
Happen?") Read this study & remember, you should never touch a tick
with bare fingers: "... spirochetes can also be visualized in tick
excrement. Furthermore, the results emphasize that borrelial
contamination by defecation is a possibility, and that caution should be
exercised by researchers investigating pathogen/host/vector
interactions.
Borrelia burgdorferi Visualized in Ixodes scapularis Tick Excrement by Immunofluorescence
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ON PEUT VOIR DES SPIROCHETES DANS LES EXCREMENTS DES TIQUES
DE PLUS LES RESULTATS INSISTENT SUR LE FAIT QU ON PEUT ËTRE CONTAMINE PAR CEUX CI