The most common tick types are the deer tick, dog tick, and lone star tick ... The bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted during the tick’s feeding process and can subsequently cause various ...
This is the same tick that spreads Lyme disease. This species of tick is established in the south of ... Granulocytic anaplasmosis is caused by a bacterium called Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and ...
Lyme is symbolic of an overall increase in tick-borne diseases across the entire state, especially in the Midcoast and the Down East where the incidence has tripled within the last ten years.