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This section contains information regarding the identification, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of prevalent tickborne diseases in Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic region.
Infographics:
Found a Tick? Remove It Quick - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
State of Delaware Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health - Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
How To Protect Against Ticks - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
State of Delaware Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health - Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Lyme Disease Symptoms - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
State of Delaware Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health - Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Red Meat Allergy A.K.A. Alpha-Gal - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
State of Delaware Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health - Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
The Many Forms of Lyme Disease Rashes - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
Centers for Disease Control
Rash Identification:
Think The Lyme Disease Rash Is Always A Bullseye? Think Again! - Webinar
John Aucott MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Illness - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Former Chairman of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
Lyme Disease Rashes & Research - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
About Testing:
Clinical Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Lyme and Other TBDs - Webinar
Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) and Delaware's Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board - Collaboration
Basic Principles in Diagnostic Testing - CME
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, AAFP, LymeCME.com, Invisible International/Montecalvo Foundation, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
AAFP approved for 0.5 credits
A Review of Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
Lyme Disease Testing - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Physician, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Founder and President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
Senate Bill 15 - Delaware Lyme & Other Tickborne Disease-Related Legislation
Labs must provide a notice to patients explaining limits of Lyme disease blood tests
Signs, Symptoms & Testing
Clinical Diagnosis
The Many Forms of Lyme Disease Rashes - 18 x 24" Poster, PDF Download
Centers for Disease Control
Clinical Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Lyme and Other TBDs - Webinar
Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) and Delaware's Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board - Collaboration
Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Illness - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Former Chairman of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
A Review of Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
Lyme Disease Treatment - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference Speaker Discussion
Neil G. Rellosa, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, Nemours Children's Hospital, LDEOB Member & Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (topic slides)
Lyme Disease Rashes & Research - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
Treatment Presentation - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference Topic Discussion
Neil Rellosa, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician, Nemours Children's Hospital, LDEOB Member & Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Physician, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Founder and President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker exchange)
Surveillance Data & Case Reporting
Notifiable Disease Report to the Dept. of Public Health - Fillable PDF Form
State of Delaware Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health - Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
CDC Tickborne Pathogen Surveillance - Data maps through 2024
Maps showing the projected suitable habitat for Ixodes scapularis (blacklegged ticks) or Ixodes pacificus (western blacklegged ticks) and where select pathogens have been found
Tickborne Disease –Professional Training
Webinars:
Clinical Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Lyme and Other TBDs - Webinar
Global Lyme Alliance (GLA) and Delaware's Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board - Collaboration
CMEs:
Lyme Carditis - CME
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, AAFP, VectorWise CME, Invisible International/Montecalvo Foundation, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
AAFP approved for 0.75 credits
Early Lyme Disease/Case Studies in Early Lyme Disease - CME
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, AAFP, VectorWise CME, Invisible International/Montecalvo Foundation, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
AAFP approved for 1.25 credits
Basic Principles in Diagnostic Testing - CME
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, AAFP, VectorWise CME, Invisible International/Montecalvo Foundation, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
AAFP approved for 0.5 credits
When a Blacklegged Tick More than a Bite - CME
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, AAFP, VectorWise CME, Invisible International/Montecalvo Foundation, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
AAFP approved for 0.25 credits
Presentations 2025:
Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Illness - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Former Chairman of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Babesia Adaptation and Survival Mechanisms - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD, John F. Enders Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis and Pathology, Yale School of Medicine
PDF (presentation slides)
Babesia in the Mid-Atlantic Region & DE Tick Testing Program - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Michael H. Buoni, PhD, Instructor of Genetics, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Delaware Technical Community College
PDF (presentation slides)
A Tick Bite Can Make Me Allergic to Red Meat!? What You Need to Know About Alpha-Gal Syndrome - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Scott P. Commins, MD, PhD, William J. Yount Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Associate Chief for Allergy & Immunology; Medical Director, UNC Allergy and Immunology Clinic at Eastowne
PDF (presentation slides)
Combination Therapy for Borrelia and Bartonella Infections - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Monica E. Embers, PhD, Professor and Director of Vector-Borne Disease Research; Head, Education and Training Program, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine
PDF (presentation slides)
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Tick-Borne Illness: Impact and Treatment - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, Director, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, Director, Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders & Biobehavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
PDF (presentation slides)
A Review of Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (presentation slides)
Lyme Disease Treatment - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference Speaker Discussion
Neil G. Rellosa, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, Nemours Children's Hospital, LDEOB Member & Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
PDF (topic slides)
Curative Pharmokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in the Babesia microti Immunocompromised Mouse Model: Bench to Clinic - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
David J. Sullivan Jr., MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases Physician, Malariologist, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PDF (presentation slides)
Unraveling the Immunopathology of Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses: Sex Differences and Predictive Diagnostics - 2025 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Michal “Mikki” Caspi Tal, PhD, Principal Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Biological Engineering and Tal Research Group; Associate Scientific Director, MIT Center for Gynepathology Research
PDF (presentation slides) - COMING SOON!
Video - COMING SOON!
Presentations 2024:
Lyme Disease Rashes & Research - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
Antibiotic Efficacy Against Lyme - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Monica Embers, PhD, Director of Vector-Borne Disease Research, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, Director, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, Director, Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders & Biobehavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)
Lyme Disease Testing - 2024 Lyme Aware Delaware Conference
Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Physician, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Founder and President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
PDF (topic slides)
Video (speaker presentation)