Fighting Lyme Disease (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Fighting Lyme Disease

Caption

Tweezers grasp a nymph-stage blacklegged tick (also known as a deer tick), which transmits the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. 

Credit

Alonso Nichols

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License

CC BY

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