Tracking Ticks
"UW-Eau Claire biology professor Lloyd Turtinen turned one encounter with a tiny tick into a five-year faculty-student research project examining Lyme disease and the ticks that spread it."
"The researchers conducted a DNA analysis on 341 adult female deer ticks collected from 21 counties in Wisconsin during 2010-13, with results showing an average of 35 percent of the ticks testing positive for the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which causes Lyme disease. The counties with the highest infected tick prevalence rates were Chippewa (66.7 percent), Dunn (44.4 percent) and Eau Claire (36.5 percent) counties."
"UW-Eau Claire biology professor Lloyd Turtinen turned one encounter with a tiny tick into a five-year faculty-student research project examining Lyme disease and the ticks that spread it."
"The researchers conducted a DNA analysis on 341 adult female deer ticks collected from 21 counties in Wisconsin during 2010-13, with results showing an average of 35 percent of the ticks testing positive for the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which causes Lyme disease. The counties with the highest infected tick prevalence rates were Chippewa (66.7 percent), Dunn (44.4 percent) and Eau Claire (36.5 percent) counties."
