Coseropositivity to Tick-Borne Pathogens Among Patients Suspected to Have Lyme Disease
Yonghong Li, Carmen H. Tong, Tara S. Givens, Ross M. Boyce · 2026
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Yonghong Li, Carmen H. Tong, Tara S. Givens, and Ross M. Boyce studied how often patients tested for Lyme disease also carry signs of other tick-borne germs. Their 2026 cohort study used test records from Quest Diagnostics, a large lab company. Lyme disease comes from a germ spread by Ixodes ticks, and the same ticks can carry germs that cause other illnesses at the same time.
The team reviewed five years of panel tests, from 2021 to 2025, and kept the first test for each person. The final group held 193,260 people. They measured how often blood samples showed antibodies against the Lyme germ together with antibodies against other tick-borne germs, and how the pattern varied by age, sex, season, and region. The findings help doctors judge when one tick bite may have delivered more than one infection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yonghong Li, Carmen H. Tong, Tara S. Givens, Ross M. Boyce |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |