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UM Researchers Receive $700,000 in NIH Funding to Study Tick-Borne Lyme Disease

University of Montana researchers Dan Drecktrah and Scott Samuels were recently awarded $449,998 from the National Institutes of Health for the first year of a five-year project to study the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

They will work in conjunction with Meghan Lybecker of the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs. Lybecker earned her Ph.D. from UM in 2007.

Together they will investigate the "Regulation of glycerol utilization in Borrelia burgdorferi." With an estimated 300,000 cases annually, Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne illness in the United States. It results from infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted via the bite of a tick.

http://news.umt.edu/2018/07/071018tick.php

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