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Dept of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Milder winters & rainy springs make for prime breeding grounds for ticks says Asst Prof Thomas Hart @tmhartbio.bsky.social an infectious-disease microbiologist @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social The warmer it is, the more ticks are able to survive through the seasons he says www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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Ticks Are Really Bad This Summer. What to Do About Them

Milder winters and rainy springs help the parasites thrive in the U.S., and emergency-room visits for bites are up.

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NPR @npr.org · 23/06/2025

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live. Here's what to know to protect yourself.

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Tick risks vary by region. Here's where diseases have spread and how to stay safe

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live. Here's what to know to protect yourself.

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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Today! 3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore April 30, 2025 publichealth.jhu.edu/lyme-and-tic... #MicroSky 🦠

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Thomas Hart @tmhartbio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tick feeding or vaccination with tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans

Comprehensive profiling of Ixodes scapularis antigens reveals that tick bites induce antivector immunity linked to acquired tick resistance.

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Thomas Hart @tmhartbio.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We're looking for a postdoc to join my group @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social MMI department to investigate host-pathogen interactions in Lyme disease! If interested, please email a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references to me at thart15@jh.edu.

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