Microbiologists have demonstrated the first direct visualization of the dissemination of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. This real-time, three-dimensional look at ...

The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through their environment in spite of the fact their tails are located inside ...

When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, ...

Researchers studying a 5,000-year-old man preserved in an Alpine glacier, recently found genetic evidence suggesting that he had Lyme disease. So it's been around for a long time, and was probably in ...