Is it me? or is that not as common for NJ as I thought???
No biggie if not- I have him in a baggie right now, alive-
where do you send them to get tested for NJ, OR if I brought it to my doctor, who is an idiot- would they do anything w/ it??
TY for any help. Much appreciated.
I think I really want to get this one tested, tired of finding them here n there in the house, and not knowing overall.
IF I brought it to the health department, would they test it??
TY
-Rose
Here http://www.igenex.com/formset2.htm
Tick Test Request Form
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Good luck with the ticks in the house.
I have found ticks in my house already too. I guess I am going to have to use premise spray much to my shugrins.
http://www.igenex.com/
Good luck. Vee
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The sad part is, the rashes I had last year, along w/ my + w/b, matched the lone star rash, (and some symptoms), but I was not tested for one of the things that a lone star can carry.
PITA dr's lol, ya I know all the ins n outs w/ the controversies, but - what else does lone stars carry overall?
Are they also one of the ticks that carry some other strains of lyme that have no tests avilable yet for it? I recall something in regards to other bacteria found within ticks,that were either just FOUND as of last year, w/ no tests avail for it or similar.
TY again.
-Rose
A different strain of Babesia has been found in the lone star tick, the MO-1 strain, which was found in Missouri. So far, none of the commercial labs offer a diagnostic test for the MO-1 strain of Babesia yet.
Oddly, the MO-1 strain is more closely related to Babesia digergens, which is a bovine (cattle) strain. Similarly, Borrelia lonestari has also been described as a bovine strain. This strikes me as more than just an odd coincidence. I can't help but wonder if the *intraerythrocytic* parasite called Babesia might really be just another pleomorphism of Borrelia instead. (Definition: intraerythrocytic = inside RBCs)
These Southern (soft) ticks also carry a different strain of Ehrlichia, too, but I can't keep the strains of Ehrlichia straight in my mind (HME vs HGE). In other words, it's whichever strain of Ehrlichia which you do NOT usually find in the NE.
As for Bartonella, that's anybody's guess. Bartonella can be transmitted by cat and dog fleas, primarily, in addition be being transmittable by ticks.
There are probably many other yet unidentified pathogens carried by ticks also.
What you need is to import some fire ants up North. Fire ants would help cut down on the tick population dramatically. That's what's happened in some of the counties in SE Texas where the fire ants move in.
Either that, or keep a flock of guinea hens. They like to eat ticks.