Houston -- The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School has been awarded a $150,000, two-year grant by the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to study a mysterious infection affecting Texas and other southern states.
Houston
-- The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School has been awarded a $150,000, two-year grant by the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to study a mysterious infection affecting Texas and other southern states.
The research will look into conflicting reports about how Southern-Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI), a Lyme-like disease, is infecting its subjects.
STARI creates a bullseye-shaped rash that looks like a Lyme disease lesion, but Lyme-causing bacteria has not been detected in patients, animals or ticks in the areas where cases have been reported.
The project will seek to identify what organisms are causing STARI in Texas, and possibly develop tests or treatments for the disease.
