“The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis”

Kristen A. Schmitt, writing at Smithsonian Magazine : The test kit, which remains effective for up to 12 months, is simple to use. After carefully removing the tick with either tweezers or a tick-removal tool, you place it into the kit’s “Tick Crusher.” The grinder pulverizes the tick’s chitinous exterior, exposing the internal contents where the Borrelia burgdorferi is located. A patent-pending…