Tag: ehrlichia
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Your Bloodstream Is a Party… and Ehrlichia Brought a “Stay In The Blood” Spell
(aka: 🤔 How does a bacterium manage to still be in your bloodstream right when a tick shows up to feed?) Ticks are here for the blood party — they show up, suck blood, and leave. If ticks are the bus, then Ehrlichia is the passenger in your bloodstream who’s standing at the curb with their…
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Six Years, One Tick-Borne Bacterium, and a PhD Later
I didn’t start my PhD in 2019 with a grand dream or a childhood passion for biomedical sciences. I started with a central question that immediately made it clear how little I knew: How do Ehrlichiae cause disease? At the time, I knew nothing. Not a little nothing. Like full blank brain, zero context, no…
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Molt Buddy: A Totally Unverified Tick Theory
🕷️What if a tick-borne bacterium doesn’t just tolerate the tick… what if it actually helps the tick molt? To be super clear: this is still speculation. We’re not claiming mechanism, we’re not claiming proof, and we’re definitely not naming a specific unpublished protein like it’s already convicted in court 😂🚫. But as a concept, it’s…
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