Methods to Prevent Tick Bites and Lyme Disease

Current approaches for prevention of tick bites, Lyme disease, and other tick-borne diseases are described. Particular attention is paid to 4 risk-reduction strategies: (i) avoiding risk areas; (ii) personal protective measures that reduce the risk of tick bites or transmission of the agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi; (iii) reducing the number of infected ticks in the environment; and (iv) use of prophylactic antibiotic treatments following a bite to prevent clinical Lyme disease.

Source: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine - August 26, 2015 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Nick H. Ogden, L. Robbin Lindsay, Steven W. Schofield Source Type: research