sentences:  Benach and Bosler later co-authored the book "Lyme Disease and Related Disease Disorders", New York Academy of Sciences (September 1988).In the fall of 1981, Benach, then at the New York State Health Department, provided NIH researcher Willy Burgdorfer with collections of "I. dammini" ("scapularis") ticks from Shelter Island, as part of an ongoing investigation of Rocky Mounted spotted fever on Long Island.It was in the midgut of two of those ticks that Burgdorfer, looking for RMSF rickettsiae, noticed the “poorly stained, rather long, irregularly coiled spirochetes” that he realized might be the cause of the erythema chronicum migrans rash of Lyme disease.