Tick-borne disease can no longer be understood as a simple, single-organism infection. In many endemic regions, a bite from an Ixodes tick does not transmit one pathogen in isolation but rather a cluster of microbes capable of interacting within the human host.
Lyme Disease and Pregnancy: A Global Look at Possible Undiagnosed Congenital Infections
Lyme disease during pregnancy remains one of the least explored aspects of infectious disease epidemiology, even though its potential consequences may extend across generations.

