Spleen microbes of wild animals change with tick-borne illness
Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 18:12
in Biology & Nature
Anaplasmosis, a tick-borne febrile disease, can be carried by wild mammals before being transmitted to humans through a tick bite. Now, researchers have found that Anaplasma bacteria alter the patterns of other microbes in the spleens of mice and shrews.