Diary of a Mad Scientist

Ack. Just ran across this journal article about a new strain of the Lyme Disease spirochete (Borrellia anything is a variant on borrelia burgdorferi sensu strictu, the ‘original’ Borrellia species identified as the cause of Lyme Disease, which is also the only one we test for in humans even though many of the related strains cause the same disease in animals and presumably humans).

As an aside, the article mentions that there are 118 separate borrellia species in the South. And we have the ultra-aggressive Lone Star ticks to spread them to humans…

http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCM.01183-08v1