So, what have we found? The study we just published reports on the first few hundred ticks we collected. Most of them came from near us (Central Massachusetts)
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Three out of every five (62%) were colonized by Borrelia burgdorferi, a pathogen that causes Lyme disease. Scary.
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1 out of 10 ticks carried more than one pathogen. Even more scary.
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We found no connection between the overall diversity of the tick's microbiome and whether it carried Borrelia. But we did find associations with specific microbial taxa. Is this a clue to a new way of fighting these pathogens? We don't know. We need more data.
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Next step: more data! We have ticks from all over the US in our freezers. We're scaling things up. This is a complex, multi-dimensional puzzle, and we need a lot of data to find meaningful patterns.
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Tick disease are horrible. I live in the Northeast of the US, where we all have family & friends affected by
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We don't even have a reference genome for all but one of the tick species transmitting disease in the US. This makes it really hard to study them using genomic technology (we've sequenced hundreds of thousands of humans now. Can we just do a few more ticks?)
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We also don't know how many disease causing pathogens ticks carry. The harder we look, the more we find.
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At the same time, tick disease rates worldwide are increasing virtually unchecked due to the lack of effective control strategies. And
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If you live in the US, you can help. Send us your ticks. Join http://ProjectAcari.org and we'll send you a free Tick Kit.
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Finally, a HUGE shout out to Gaurav Chauhan, @GSBS_UMassMed grad student, who is not on Twitter but instead probably working late in the lab making this whole project happen. #amazingGradStudents
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