Pathogen-carrying neotropical ticks ride migratory birds into US
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:20
in Biology & Nature
Tick species not normally present in the United States are arriving here on migratory birds. Some of these ticks carry disease-causing Ricksettia species, and some of those species are exotic to the US. The research is published on October 2nd in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.