Novel animal reservoir for group of tick-borne diseases discovered -- and it lives in your backyard
Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
A new assay that uses mitochondrial DNA that mutates faster than nuclear DNA has allowed scientists to identify one of the major animal reservoirs for the ehlichioses, STARI and other tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States. The animal turned out to be the eastern gray squirrel.