Biologists at SF State dig into ticks and Lyme disease.

For Swei, California’s lower prevalence of Lyme is an opportunity to probe how the bacteria that causes the disease spreads differently on the West Coast. One leading explanation has to do with the different hosts that Lyme-carrying ticks prefer. In the Northeast, young ticks like to feed on the blood of small mammals like mice and chipmunks. In California, however, they have another favorite: western fence lizards. These lizards have unique blood that actually kills off the Lyme bacteria present in ticks, essentially un-infecting them.

http://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/biologists-sf-state-dig-ticks-and-lyme-disease

Publicado el diciembre 3, 2017 02:41 TARDE por biohexx1