6 Juni 2014
Rachel Nuwer
http://www.nature.com/news/lyme-bacteri ... ck-1.15378
In het Nederlands:
http://translate.google.nl/translate?hl ... rev=search
“This is the first evidence of spirochetes in a fossil tick prior to Homo,” says George Poinar, Jr., a palaeoentomologist and parasitologist at Oregon State University, and author of the new paper. Although Lyme disease did not exist back then, the spirochetes in the fossil tick probably contributed to the genetic diversity of the 12 or more species of Borrelia that cause Lyme and similar diseases today, he says.