By Meaghan Lee Callaghan
When are you more likely to see a flood of positive tests for anaplasmosis?
A new study by researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., shows that their local area sees a bump in the late spring, when more people are out enjoying the sunshine, lead author Taylor Ticer, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, told Infectious Disease Special Edition.
Dr. Ticer and her colleagues found seasonal trends within their data, which was collected over the last four years from their tick-borne disease panel, which is separate from their Lyme panel and tests for Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia, Borrelia miyamotoi, and Ehrlichia.
Dr. Ticer’s poster, “A Four and a Half Year Review of Acute Tick-Borne Illness Testing at an Academic Medical Center in New Hampshire and Vermont,” was presented Saturday, June 21, at ASM Microbe 2025.
