Immunology

Tufts-led team pursues promising new approach to preventing and fighting the bacterium that causes the tick-borne illness.

Tufts researchers and clinicians are teaming up to stop the spread of HPV—and prevent the cancers it causes.

Infectious disease specialists at Tufts share what they know about a parasite that has made thousands of people sick this summer.

New study finds biomarkers that may someday help clinicians better detect—and possibly cure—early and persistent Borrelia burgdorferi infections.

Infectious disease researchers share what it will take to stop the spread of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

With a boost from new funding, faculty are investigating the underlying causes of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome and working on a better diagnostic test.

An expert from the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative offers advice for parents and caregivers as children head outdoors during tick season.

An anonymous gift helped Tufts researchers speed up a project to develop new drugs that could prevent and treat Lyme disease.

In a talk at Tufts, the author takes on the deadly disease and the fault in our values that helps it persist.