This article was just released in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, describing the rates of infection for Lyme and associated co-infections in Dutchess and Putnam Counties, N.Y. The rates of infection for Lyme disease in Ixodes scapularis ticks were 55%, followed by A. phagocytophilum (18.2%), Deer Tick Virus (DTV, 3.4%), Babesia microti (3.2%), and E. chaffeensis (1.5%). Infection with two pathogens occurred in 13.3% of ticks, and 10 ticks were infected with three combinat...
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