72
Participants
Start Date
July 24, 2015
Primary Completion Date
May 4, 2022
Study Completion Date
May 4, 2022
Skin biopsy
Optional 2-3mm skin punch biopsies will be performed.
Blood draw
Peripheral blood draws will be performed.
Xenodiagnosis
Larval ticks will be obtained from Dr. Sam Telford from a laboratory maintained tick colony at Tufts Veterinary School. These ticks are hatched from eggs laid by ticks that have fed only on specific pathogen free laboratory animals that were purchased from established vendors. Between 25-30 larval ticks that have been aged and are known to be ready to attach will be placed on the study participant.
New York Medical College, Valhalla
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda
Mansfield Family Practice, Storrs
Tufts Medical Center, Boston
Stony Brook University (State University of New York), Stony Brook
Collaborators (1)
Stony Brook University
OTHER
Mansfield Family Practice LLC
OTHER
Tufts Medical Center
OTHER
New York Medical College
OTHER
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
NIH