Southern Tick–Associated Rash Illness in Pediatric Patient, New York, USA, 2025
Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is a tickborne disease of unknown etiology characterized by an erythema migrans-like skin lesion. We report a STARI case in New York in a child after an Amblyomma americanum tick bite; we detected Borrelia lonestari, a disputed cause of STARI, in the tick.
Authors
- Ilia Rochlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7680-6965)
- Andrew S Handel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3544-4376)
- Sophia Ahmed
- Hwan Keun Kim
Publication Details
- Journal
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3209.260871
- Primary Topic
- Nail Diseases and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00