{"id":19446,"date":"2021-03-16T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?p=19446"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:05:48","slug":"dynamic-changes-in-lyme-disease-spirochetes-during-transmission-by-nymphal-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/time-to-transmission\/dynamic-changes-in-lyme-disease-spirochetes-during-transmission-by-nymphal-ticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic changes in Lyme disease spirochetes during transmission by nymphal ticks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">JOSEPH PIESMAN AND BRADLEY S. SCHNEIDER<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experimental and Applied Acarology 28: 141-145, 2002<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: Ticks are not crawling needles, merely delivering infectious agents to vertebrate hosts. A sophisticated interplay takes place between ticks, pathogens, and vertebrate hosts. The relationship between Ixodes ticks and the Lyme disease spirochetes they transmit involves subtle changes in spirochete populations that maximize their chances of being transmitted. An understanding of this complex interplay will, hopefully, allow the development of new tools to block transmission of tick-borne agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/Piesman2002DynamicChangesinLymeSpirochetes.pdf\">Piesman2002DynamicChangesinLymeSpirochetes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/Piesman2002DynamicChangesinLymeSpirochetes.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH PIESMAN AND BRADLEY S. SCHNEIDER Experimental and Applied Acarology 28: 141-145, 2002 Abstract: Ticks are not crawling needles, merely delivering infectious agents to vertebrate hosts. A sophisticated interplay takes place between ticks, pathogens, and vertebrate hosts. The relationship between Ixodes ticks and the Lyme disease spirochetes they transmit involves subtle changes in spirochete populations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[539],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-to-transmission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19515,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19446\/revisions\/19515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}