Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness Home>Conditions_and_Diseases>Infectious_Diseases>Spirochetal>Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness     Web Pages Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI) Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on this recently discovered disease, which is similar to Lyme disease. Borrelia lonestari DNA in Adult Amblyomma americanum Ticks, Alabama Article from the Centers for Disease Control. Stari, Stari Night Article about Lyme-like disease in the southern U.S. from the Lyme Alliance newsletter. Tickborne Disease Puzzles Scientists UPI article on a new tick-borne ailment of the southern United States that has been dubbed Master's disease or Southern tick-associated rash illness.