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Soc. of America guidelines corrupted yet Canada blindly follows these guidelines despite global research proving them wrong...why? - Recent British Medical Journal article triggers rapid response and compelling reading. Read it here - Physicians' assocation disagrees with Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines Lyme is a borderless, more widespread and more complex problem that will affect your practice, without a doubt in the years to come. Are we dropping the ball? In many cases...yes. We are not given the facts. This is not alarmist, but a fact...See "Other Diseases and Lyme - Relationship"      Also, Lyme Disease Workup by Harold Smith, MD Read this journal paper, "Guidelines have done more harm than good", now read the new Canadian laboratory guidelines... will they cause death and disability? We think so, please review. 2007 - Study shows that expecting a Bull's Eye rash may miss Lyme U.S. government website outlines in detail the treatment/diagnosis of Lyme. Proper Tick Removal Instructions Click Here Do a handful of researchers from outside of Canada dictate Lyme policies that are harming Canadians? ...and why does this seem to occur without evidence being thoroughly reviewed by those Canadians charged with our care when conflicts of interest are well known? This group of non-Canadian researchers continually cite and review each others work while ignoring the larger global databank of research by independent researchers. We vehemently oppose the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines for Lyme. Why is it that this group of researchers are so loved by the medical insurance industry? ...a complete and thorough read of this congressional testimony by insurers helps you understand. - Chest pain in military recruit...Lyme disease - Dogs carry Bartonella H. in saliva ! - Bacillary Angiomatosis from tick-borne disease Bartonella H. - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Children - Lyme from a biting fly - Focus Floating Microscopy: "Gold Standard" for Cutaneous Borreliosis? - Psychology Today- The Infection Connection (of the mind) - Chronic Form of Bartonella Henselae...cat scratch disease - Testing for Cat Scratch Disease, many false negatives - Seronegative Lyme complicates leukemia treatment - Seronegative Lyme in 10 yr old - Lyme disease and Anaplasmosis from kidney transplant - Canadian doctor reviews IDSA Lyme guidelines - Attorney General Investigates IDSA Guidelines - Usually rodent associated bartonella found in humans...CDC - Controversies in Lyme Disease Diagnosis and Treatment - Late Stage Lyme Disease: Deborah A. Metzger, PhD, MD - Medical doctors demand retraction of IDSA guidelines - CanLyme sends letter of support for retraction of guidelines - IDSA given failing grade - Point / Counterpoint, ...science and politics of Lyme - U.S. lawmakers target CDC Lyme researchers...new laws - 17th century research may yield new antibiotic Read this, (Section XI especially) regarding conflict of interest, and then ask why are Canadian Lyme patients angry with Canada blindly adopting the U.S. policies. Treatable chronic Lyme has been defined away in much of this groups' research and the global medical insurance/HMO/workers compensation industry has taken full advantage of this. Lives are destroyed as the trillion dollar global medical insurance industry off-loads disability cost back onto the taxpayer. Is there a connection between Lyme medical guidelines writers and medical insurers/HMO's, vaccine manufacturers, patent holders? Yes, congressional transcripts and this document show very clearly these American guidelines have no place in our Canadian health care system. An example of how to use definition and control of research funding to keep numbers down is by keeping the criteria so narrow that most people would fall outside the defining criteria, or in other words would test negative... "Human population numbers on this planet would be very low if we counted only those who met both of these two arbitrarily derived criteria, 1) brown skin and 2) blue eyes ...all others who did not meet those criteria would simply be taken as testing negative for human characteristics. Then, they would not be studied further for human characteristics. Why?... Because those who set the criteria also controlled the funding for the research necessary to verify the facts and they want only their criteria in force." Clever design can create the desired result. Revealing mapped geographical study of Lyme over Multiple Sclerosis Urine PCR good test for early Lyme U.S. Supreme Court decision, peer-review research unreliable Microbes in tissues living under the Alzheimer Name - Identity Theft? Listen to Medical News Podcasts - B. burgdorferi in 7 of 10 Alzheimer's brains Neuropsychiatric Assessment Tool A similar scenario is used to define away late stage chronic treatable Lyme and this scenario is given credibility because those defining it are funded by and then published under the umbrella of medical and government institutions we once trusted without question. This narrow definition of Lyme has allowed these researchers to draw conclusions and make statements of accuracy as to testing. The fact is that if the definition were broadened to fit the disease many more people would be shown to have a "false negative" test showing us that late stage testing is very inaccurate. This use of a too narrow definition of Lyme causes a cascading of incorrect conclusions drawn in all research that flowed from this defintion. From our perspective this casts doubt on much of the research. Medical guideline writers, publishers and the entire medical business have come under much criticism and scrutiny in recent years.1 2 3 19 It appears that forensic type investigation/accounting may have to become routine in all medical guideline production and publishing to protect public health.16,32 A "publish or perish" mentality emerged Universities, medical licensing colleges, medical research funding, medical associations, medical journals, medical leadership, medical governance and medical education are so interwoven with big pharma, vaccine manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, and the medical insurance industry it is impossible to have the medical 'industry' police themselves. A New Medical Series The time has come for stakeholder/medical oversight committees. Perhaps this is long overdue. We do not have to cease working with industry, we simply have to do it better. We have ample non-conflicted medical professionals and educated stakeholder groups in Canada capable of drafting guidelines. Those with any conflict of interest, such as file reviewers of provincial worker's compensation claims, insurance claims, or those with any other conflict should not participate in guideline development. We have enough qualified professionals in Canada to review the research and draw conclusions. This is not a disease owned by specialist groups such as Infectious Disease etc.. This has been the problem for too long. What does it mean to have a negative Lyme serology in Canada? Canada follows the U.S. CDC surveillance criteria to test humans for lyme disease. This is a two step process of a screening test followed by a Western Blot if the initial screening test is positive. Does treating Lyme disease cause antibiotic resistance? Most of those professionals sitting on the panel who set the U.S. CDC criteria in 1994 had various levels of conflict of interest including vaccine patent holders, other lyme related product patent holders, medical insurance consultants etc.. CanLyme and scientists from around the world disagee with the criteria in that they are far too restrictive and do not give a true picture of the patients blood sera in regards to borrelia antibody response. The screening test consistently misses at least 50% of Lyme disease cases due to the insensitivity of the assay, the individuals immune response and variability with antibiotic treatment, etc.. 31 This initial screening test is the only test your patient will have in Canada unless of course it is one of the few positives. If positive, a confirmatory Western Blot is done using the U.S. CDC criteria. Click - Compilation of Peer Reviewed Literature - Symptoms and Characteristics of Lyme Without the appropriate information looked at in the Western Blot your patient may very well have Lyme disease despite a negative test. The Public Health Agency of Canada states late stage Lyme disease testing is more accurate, and they have posted that statement on their website. We disagree. This is a misleading statement and devoid of explanation. Testing for Lyme is an inaccurate science. This and much other research worldwide supports our contention. Here is a quote from U.S. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report September 24, 1999 further validating our position... "Although antibody to OspA in patients with early Lyme disease is rarely evident, this antibody can be found in increasing amounts in patients with later stages of Lyme disease". The world medical research community acknowledges that OspA is specific to the bacteria that is the cause of lyme disease however, our Canadian labs do not even look for it nor do they look for other borrelia specific markers. Serology can only tell us that detectable levels of antibodies in the blood sera either are or are not found based upon; quality control, the lab technicians' expertise, the quality of kits used to run the test, the testing methods, the criteria employed in analyzing results, the patients' immune response or lack of it, and several other factors. Lyme is very much a clinical diagnosis. Serology is not confirmatory. Osp (outer surface protein) A, band 31, and B, band 34, bands 83, and 94 are very borrelia speific yet are not reported on in Canada by our labs nor are they included in the U.S. CDC criteria for a confirmed case of Lyme. 17 19 Subsequently a person showing symptoms of Lyme may have reactivity to one of these bands indicating exposure to borrelia but we will never know using our labs. That information will not be available to correlate to the patients' symptoms. Lyme is very much a clincial diagnosis. Serology is not confirmatory. Blood serology not good indicator of recovery Serology of course is measuring only an antibody response, not detecting the organism itself. It is not feasible to biopsy every persons' bladder wall, heart, synovium, ligamentous tissue, etc.. But if it were, research has shown these locations along with the brain are excellent hiding locations for the elusive Lyme bacteria. In fact, organ donation has caused infection.18   If reactivity to the bands mentioned in the previous paragraph were measured in the blood sera we would find many more patients who have been infected who are now living with either no diagnosis or a different diagnosis. This would also isolate those individuals who should not become donors, or that treatment of those receiving those organs begin as soon as possible. Biopsy data could once and for all provide solid objective evidence of chronic late stage seronegative lyme. A fully equipped Lyme research facility could provide that data. Research supports this. We have got to start asking, "Why? Why are there no such facilities in Canada?" Lyme disease has been linked to diseases that comprise over 2 million cases in Canada alone...including Alzheimer's, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Parkinsonism, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease, heart disorders, psychiatric disorders and many other chronic illnesses of 'unknown origin' which collectively cost the taxpayer billions of dollars. If we had Lyme research facilities in Canada many many of the victims would voluntarily undergo biopsy or donate their remains for research in the event of death. We know this because they ask regularly. Those who ask include victims with many of these other diagnoses. Even though factual peer-reviewed published research has found Lyme directly or indirectly in many of these illnesses, not one cent is spent making the connection. We do not propose that all these cases are caused by Lyme....but research has proved that an unknown percent are. We as a society need to know what that percent is. (see Other diseases and Lyme) We feel statements like that on the Public Health Agency of Canada website touting misleading accuracy percentages gives a false picture as to the extent of the problem. As representatives of the most vested stakeholders, the victims, CanLyme should have the undeniable right to review relevant data yet authorities in Canada to date will not share nor pinpoint the definition of late stage, chronic Lyme on which they make claims including claims of testing accuracy. Nor do some authorities here acknowledge the well documented failures of testing using present methods and criteria. Virtually everyone who has approached us at CanLyme, with symptoms of Lyme, has tested negative using the U.S. CDC/IDSA criteria which is followed by our medical labs. Do we contend that they all have Lyme disease? Of course not. However, when other independent fully 'certified and accredited' labs identify Lyme specific antibodies in many of these same Canadians, our medical authorities' reaction to this is to make public statements to the effect that these highly reputable labs and their scientists are somehow less than competent and that quality control is unknown yet part of the U.S. certification process is to pass quality control and competency testing. These same independent labs who are identifying Canadians with the disease after our federal/provincial labs give negative results pass with flying colours consistently. It's time that we, the victims representatives, have a vehicle to challenge our labs for accuracy/competency the same way the certification boards test independent labs for accuracy. We need to be able to participate in blinded challenges of our federal and provincial labs. We encourage every medical professional in Canada to support us in this regard. Lyme disease is showing up in other diagnoses in ever-increasing numbers as the research is done. A dedicated Lyme disease research facility in Canada capable of studying all aspects of Lyme disease and its role in the many other disease processes linked to it is desperately needed. The facility will require full pathology capability including serology, histology, DNA, culture, etc. for both live sample and post-mortem study. The management of such a facility should be comprised of CanLyme members and non CanLyme persons to ensure transparency. -- More evidence points to MS being an infection -- Emerging Infectious Determinants in Chronic Disease (US CDC EID July 2006) -- More reason not to rely on antibody test -- CME Update on Lyme, Ginger R. Savely U.S. government website outlines in detail the treatment/diagnosis of Lyme. University of Washington...Can relying on evidence-based medicine be a flawed and dangerous practice? Is Canadian Blood Supply at Risk?..you decide      Medical Guideline Writers Corrupt...Report Nancy's Plea To Doctors - MS / Lyme Medical Post... 'A twist of Lyme' ...By Carol Hilton -- Medical Guidelines Writers - Inventing Disease - We must take back our profession from corporate interests -- Academic Research Tainted by Commercial Funding - We must question everything -- Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Trial Collective Intelligence, A New Reality - New Hope Lyme disease carrying ticks have been found in every Province in Canada. Lyme cases have been confirmed Canada wide. Even soft shell ticks can transmit Borreliosis to humans. 7 B. Hermsii has novel presentations possibly assisting in avoiding detection.10 Nobel prize nominee links Parkinson's to Lyme - May 2005 Read this from the Lancet -- Oct. 04 Lyme borreliosis: perspective of a scientist–patient. Read -- " Lyme Disease - Two Standards of Care " With close to 300,0008 cases of Lyme Disease having been confirmed in United States in the past twenty-eight years (under estimated 10 fold (1,2,3) according to the CDC putting the likely number of cases at 2 to 3 million), and considering many of these cases are from states that border Canada it is remarkable Canada reports it has only had a few hundred cases. Lyme borreliosis is now acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human disease in northern temperate regions of the world 13. Canadian medicine and science, due to the lack of recognition of the clinical diagnoses, combined with lack of surveillance and research, places us at the bottom of the scale in dealing with this serious disease. We are years behind. Why are the CDC Lab Testing Criteria for Lyme Disease so Poor? U.S. government website outlines in detail the treatment/diagnosis of Lyme. Prophylactic treatment, considering that Lyme has been found in cerebrospinal within hours, may be good medicine (use early Lyme treatment protocol). ELISA and Western Blot (WB) testing will miss most Lyme cases 4. Many more cases were testing positive under the old CDC criteria which was changed with very little scientific explanation or input. This below will illustrate why there was astonishment in the scientific community when the old criteria were changed...but the prescription insurance lobby were happy...no diagnosis no treatment (now several states have enacted legislation protecting doctors who treat Lyme based on clinical presentation only as per CDC recommendations). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the NIH states "symptoms is considered to be the most reliable diagnostic indicator of Lyme disease; such a history is sufficient to justify antibiotic therapy in the absence of further serological tests, since only about 30 percent of such individuals would usually be seropositive by Western blot and ELISA assays." 4 SAFEST TICK REMOVAL METHODS CLICK HERE Lyme Disease In Your Province: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Newfoundland See also - Lyme Disease in Non-endemic Areas of Canada Linked to Borrelia burgdorferi-positive Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis Dispersed by Birds - Canadian researchers Many Lyme patients were firstly diagnosed with other illnesses such as Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Infectious Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Raynaud's Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Interstitial Cystis, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Fifth's Fisease, Multiple Sclerosis, scleroderma, lupus, early ALS, early Alzheimers Disease, crohn's disease, ménières syndrome, reynaud's syndrome, sjogren's syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, prostatitis, psychiatric disorders (bipolar, depression, etc.), encephalitis, sleep disorders, thyroid disease and various other illnesses. These diagnoses need to be revisited with Lyme as a differential diagnosis in many cases. See Diagnosis Early onset symptoms may be fever, malaise (a vague feeling of bodily discomfort or unwellness, possibly nausea), fatigue, headache, muscle aches (myalgia), and joint aches (arthralgia). Many do not get these early symptoms and their first signs may be tingling/numbness in any area or other such neurologic disorders which then progress to other systems in the body. The bull's-eye rash (erythema migrans) occurs only in some cases (30%+) but is often missed or unrecognized and does not rule out Lyme Disease in its absence. It is not always a bull's eye and can be more generalized in appearance. Physicians who use Lyme titers to yea or nay a diagnosis, and monitor them during and after antibiotic therapy, and pronounce their patients 'cured' when their test becomes negative (if lucky enough to have had a positive), do not understand what they are measuring and are wasting the patient's/governments/insurers money and doing them a disservice. The Controversy, the Collusion The tide turns: On November 27, the New York Assembly Health Committee held a public hearing on the Lyme disease controversy on in Albany. A hearing room seating 400 was nearly packed with Lyme patients, and while the NY health department did not show up to testify or observe, the insurance lobby was likely very sorry it did. The members of the Health committee asked very pointed questions of the insurance representative, Alan Muney of Oxford Health Plans -- such as Assemblyman Joel Miller's "just how many patients will it take?" to satisfy Oxford that long term Lyme disease exists. While most of the testimony centered on the science of diagnosis and treatment, many presenters pointed to collusion between insurers and OPMC in suppressing the real truth about long-term illness and the appropriateness of long-term treatment. FAIM's Howard Hindin, and Pat Smith of the Lyme Disease Association, both honed in on this theme with great success. The hearing was covered by New York NewsDay, the Poughkeepsie Journal, the Legislative Gazzette, and the public television journal, Inside Albany. Did you know? Did you know that an extensive body of research from the University of California, Davis (Mar. 2008) has shown clearly that once disseminated into ones' system, and after the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) recommended short term antibiotic period, that live infectious Lyme bacteria were seen thriving in collagen tissue? Did you know that neither blood tests nor culture were positive for Lyme in the above research although the live spirochetes were visualized histopathologially with a subsequent positive PCR? Read the abstract here. Did you know that because this completely undermines the IDSA who put themselves out there as the only experts, the IDSA are now grasping at straws by reassuring everyone that these live, active, infectious Lyme bacteria do not represent an active infection? Did you know the IDSA still would like you to believe their recommended blood tests are just fine, and their short term antibiotic therapy is just fine, and that live bacteria magically do not represent an infection, only in Lyme disease? Again, instead of leaning in favour of the wellness and safety of the patient, they still recommend denying patients antibiotic therapy beyond the IDSA short term recommendations...in spite of the fact that Columbia University research did show a benefit to the patient from longer term therapy. They do this in spite of the fact that tens of thousands of Lyme victims have been telling them for decades the are still sick and benefit greatly from longer term therapy. They tell the patients that antibiotics are dangerous. However, if someone is diagnosed with rheumatic fever, another clinical diagnosis, they can have a lifetime prescription of antibiotics, or a teen can get years of antibiotics for acne. Did you know that the classic bull's eye rash (EM - erythema migrans), referred to 108 times in the IDSA Lyme Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines as the predominent early sign of Lyme disease occurs in only 9% of cases of Lyme disease? Read the research here. What does this mean for those medical practitioners who continue to follow the IDSA (who are under investigation by the Attorney General of the state of Connecticut)? What does this mean for those who adhere to the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network guidelines (a puppet network for the IDSA)? It means you are going to seldom diagnose Lyme disease and for those you do treat, you will limit your patients' chances at recovery putting them at rick for permanent disability. You have been told up until now that late stage serology approaches 100% accuracy when in fact the opposite is the case. Here are two very significant quotes regarding tests: (See full article) 1) "Many Lyme disease scientists believe that any patient whose IgG Western blot exhibits bands at, say, any three (or even two) of these locations almost certainly has Lyme disease, regardless of whether or not any other bands are present....." 2) [re: Bands 31 OspA and 34 OspB] "However, while the absence of either of these bands from a patient's immunoblot result does not rule out Lyme disease, their presence is hardly meaningless. Thus, many Lyme disease experts believe it is a serious mistake to exclude these two antibody proteins from the list of significant bands. The CDC's decision to do so seems particularly strange in light of the fact that it is the OspA component of Bb that is being used as the stimulating antigen in the ongoing experimental Lyme disease vaccine trials. As one immunologist remarked shortly after the 1994 CDC conference, "If OspA is so unimportant, then why the heck are we vaccinating people with it?"" - Lyme classic rash occurs in only 9% - Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders - Lyme Rash Frequency - Lyme Testing - Lyme Treatment - The Lyme Controversy - What does a negative Lyme test tell you in Canada? - New evidence shows longer treatment required Canadian lyme disease numbers do not fit global incidence rates - see graph of how we stack up How do "the current voices of entrenched, patent-holding [self-proclaimed] medical experts in a few academic towers" impose their version of the truth? -- Borrelia, rickettsia, bartonella found in bat ticks -- Lyme Disease in Brainstem -- Insurers Pressure Doctors Not To Treat Lyme  ...Frontline Doctors Don't Buy It -- Study debunked by Doctors -- Doctors Dispute Published Study -- Basic Understanding of Lyme -- Lyme Doctor Cleared of Wrong-doing -- Borrelia role in Alzheimer's amyloid plaque building -- Borrelia cultured after antibiotic therapy -- Cultured borrelia different than tick transmitted borrelia -- Studies of the Cystic Forms in      B.burgdorferi -- Seronegative Lyme Research -- Doctors Treating Presumptive Lyme Immediately Have a topic in mind?...Do a CanLyme word search here Other Diseases and Lyme... Relationship ALS and Lyme (ALS known as Lou Gehrig's Disease is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) - FDA to Allow Ceftriaxone Study for ALS -- ALS-like sequelae in chronic     neuroborreliosis - ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lyme disease - Treating MS and ALS w/antibiotics - Old antibiotic used in ALS treatment - ALS/MS...Lyme Diagnosis Alzheimers and Lyme - Borrelia.. role in Alzheimer's amyloid plaque building May '05 - Journal of Alzheimer's Dis. Links Lyme Dec. 2004 - Antibiotics fight Alzheimer's: study - Alzheimer's disease--a spirochetosis? - Borrelia and Alzheimer's - Spirochetal DNA in brain cells of Alzheimer's victims finds NY researcher - Alzheimer's and Lyme, A Case Study - Microbes in tissues living under the Alzheimer Name - Identity Theft? - Neocortical borreliosis and Alzheimer's - Anaplasma (Ehrlichia) phagocytophilium and Lyme Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme Lyme presenting as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - CDC now has a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnostic guideline - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ruled as cause of death - Is it Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS) or Lyme - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia     and Lyme...Donta Multiple Sclerosis and Lyme - A comprehensive resource, Lyme and Multiple Sclerosis - Lyme and MS mapped geographically, alarming - Cyst structures in CSF of MS patients - The spirochete and Multiple Sclerosis - M.S. and Lyme...real life accounts - Multiple Sclerosis Responds to Antibiotics...Why? - MS and Lyme Linked...a compilation - MS or Lyme. How to tell them apart? - MS and Lyme..a look - Multiple Sclerosis clusters follow lyme worldwide - Treating MS and ALS w/antibiotics - Canadian researchers link MS and lyme - MS patients, Spirochetal cysts in spinal      fluid. - Lyme Disease and Multiple Sclerosis (referenced) - MS, Schizophrenia, and Lyme     connected. - Magnesium Importance to Lyme, MS etc. Others - Multifocal osteomyelitis in children with Lyme - Bartonella granulomatous in bone marrow and skin - Borreliosis associated pseudolymphomatous systemic infiltrates - Gastrointestinal (GI) tract and Lyme - Lyme Infection in the Brainstem - Cardiac Studies - Lyme and heart disease to be studied - Heart, Breathing irregularities - Morphea caused by Lyme says research - Endocarditis & Lyme - Choroiditis, Trigger finger...Lyme found in Ligaments - Crohn's, colitis linked to lyme - Bartonella found in visual loss - Bartonella in neuroretinitis - Eyes, intraocular inflammatory disease & bartonella - Hearing Loss and Lyme - Lichen Sclerosus treatment successful - Lupus and Lyme - Osteomyelitis caused by Lyme...case     study - Not MS, was Lyme Disease, Neurologists Must Learn - Parkinsonism, Lyme-Associated: A     Neuropathologic Case Study and     Review of the Literature - Rheumatic diseases, Antibiotic therapy - Rheumatic manifestations of parasitic     diseases - Trigeminal Neuralgia - Uveitis and Lyme General Information - Bartonella henselae as vasculitis and polyneuropathy - Urine PCR analysis valuable in early Lyme disease - European Borrelia found in birds in Canada - Mosquitoes carry lyme disease - Popliteal Cyst in Lyme Disease - FDA under fire from own scientists - La Jolla Institute scientists identify immune system trigger for fighting Lyme - Borrelia persists in brain as infection - Autonomic involvement in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) - Survival, Morphological Variation in Borrelia burgdorferi - CDC forms Morgellons Disease task force - Lyme acquired by organ transplant - Quality of Life Greatly Affected by Lyme - The Lyme Enterprise - Other borrelial infections - Brain and cervical cord damage in Lyme - More reason not to rely on antibody test - CME Update on Lyme, Ginger R. Savely - 'Medical Post' A Twist of Lyme (Canada) - 19 years misdiagnosed - Cat fleas important vectors of human disease -Telithromycin (Ketek) activity was unexpectedly high -Gestational Lyme -Ticks harbor other nasty disease -Vaccine value disputed -Lyme Arthrits Emerges After Transplant -Yale Limits Conflicts of Interest with Pharma -Differentiating lyme meningitis from aseptic meningitis in children -HSV-2 Can cause false positive Lyme test -Lyme Research Moves Forward -Lyme Disease, Scratching the Surface -Sociologist Dies From Babesiosis -Immunoglobulin Returns Muscle Strength -PCR in lyme neuroborreliosis: a prospective study -Teens Struggle With Lyme - Marks Suffer -Perhaps Different Strains Avoid Detection -Mutations in Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Borrelia burgdorferi -PCR Not Good Test for Lyme -New Diagnostic Marker for Neuro-Lyme -New Line Blot Assay -Gabapentin Treatment of Chronic Lyme Pain -Evaluation of urine PCR assay for diagnosis of lyme -Lots of cases now reported from New Hampshire and Maine -New Pain Management Drug -Pharmaceuticals...The FDA's Conflict Of Interest Problem -Lyme Spreads via Blood -Ruptured Spleen, Lyme and Coinfections -Ticks do Not have to be attached for long -Doctor with ALS Gets Better then Joins ILADS -How Bacterium Survives Inside Immune System Cell -Blood Supply Threatened by Ticks -Improving the specificity of Lyme disease PCR -Bartonella, Cyclospora, Ehrlichia, Mycoplasma, and Tropheryma -New Treatment For Chronic Fatigue -C6 Peptide Eliminates Western Blot ?? -Antibodies against OspA epitopes of Borrelia burgdorferi cross-react with neural tissue -Rickettsia spp. also have a role in the pathogenesis of aortic valve disease -Lyme Disease in Colorado -Milk thistle offers liver protection - pubmed -Borrelia burgdorferi, Host-Derived Proteases, and the Blood-Brain Barrier -Experts identify molecular players in tick-borne illness -Localization of B.burgdorferi in the CNS, brain,organs -Antibiotics Block Nerve Damage New Research -View (New Technology) Movie of Live Spirochetes in Skin Cells -Orbital lyme, headache, diplopia, MRI -Intracranial Pressure with Headache -Research, Treat Lyme with Fluconazole ( diflucan ) -Lyme disease conference 2004 -NIH Columbia Univ. Study Report -New Pandemic Threats--Congress -Tainted Lyme Disease Research (Klempner) -Lyme disease receptor identified in tick guts -New Treatment Guidelines for Lyme -- Corporations Qualify as Psychopaths...research -C6 Peptide ELISA study - problems? -C(6) Peptide test Not Good Marker for Active Chronic Lyme      Infection -ELISA/WB miss more than 50% cases -New Study finds changes in Lyme bacteria -Yale study supports chronic Lyme -Genomics, proteomics, and DNA microarray technology will aid diagnosis -Infection eyed as culprit in chronic disease -Went from ALS to Lyme -CDC says Lyme greatly underreorted -Identifying tick genes could halt disease, bioterrorism threat -Jury Awards $1.7 Million for Missed Lyme Diagnosis -Dr. Burrascano's treatment guidelines -False positive rate exceedingly low Neuropsychiatric Aspects and Research - Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders - Diseases of the Mind - Newsweek - Overview Neuropsychiatric Lyme - MRI Imaging, Neuropsychological Testing for Lyme - Coughes and Sneezes Spread Brain Diseases...like Lyme - Association Between Borrelia burgdorferi and psychiatric morbidity - Review of Lyme Neuroborreliosis...Dr. B. 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Bransfield MD - Musical Hallucinations and Lyme - Lyme, MS and Schizophrenia connected. - Lyme encephalopathy affects cerebral white matter. - Mother does not accept psychiatric diagnosis - A must read...Anorexia/Compulsive...12 yr. old boy - Columbia University Research - More Assessment Criteria and Information - Lyme Disease and Cognitive Impairments - Dr. Pachner, Infection of the Brain - Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Lyme - Profile of Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Denmark Children and Lyme --How Lyme Disease Mimics Attention Deficit Disorder --Neurological Manifestations of Lyme in Children --Battling Lyme Disease, a 12 yr olds' struggle -Seronegative Lyme -Reasons for seronegative results -Pitfalls of Elisa and Western Blot -Steroids Not Advised In Lyme treatment -Six to Eight weeks initial treatment of early Lyme. -Lyme Underreported -Lyme in Breast Milk -Neuroborreliosis present 5 yr. later -Treatment Failure, retreatment necessary -Research evidence proves chronic, persistent, active infection beyond treatment -Persistent Infection/Tissue Culture References -CDC Issues Warning -FDA Issues Lyme Test Warning -Conflicts of Interest in Lyme -Int'l Lyme Conf. Vanc. BC 1995 -Expert Opinion on Lyme -Long Term Antibiotic Research -Researcher tops roster of Lyme experts -Lab tests for Lyme -516 Laboratories fail at Proficiency Testing of Lyme -300 Labs Fail Miserably in test for Lyme -Dr. Burrascano's Slide Presentation -$4 Million dollar study results -New Lyme Research Center at Columbia University -Insurers/State licencing board, findings...collusion, suppression of information -Newsweek International - Mind disease -Willy Burgdorfer speaks on B. burgdorferi -Dr.'s/Researchers...Lyme a major threat -Late and Chronic Lyme- Donta...Boston University Med Ctr. -Complexities of Lyme disease -Department of Neurology, State University of New York... Increased evidence and variability of CNS abnormalities -Will there ever be a Lyme test? -Lyme Defined -Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations -Borreliosis Hermsii mimics chronic Lyme in Canada -Fish Oil Inhibits Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia -Cholesterol Drug Treats MS -Misdiagnosis -The Spirochete: Borrelia Strains -General Info and Research Resource -CBC Radio One on Lyme-In depth -Lyme...ancient, widespread and complex. Ref: 1. CDC MMWR Weekly 2. http://www.jemsekclinic.com/lyme1.php 3. http://www.medtech1.com/research_center/cond20.cfm/48 4. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/lyme/diagnosis.htm 5. http://www.centurytel.net/tjs11/bug/elisa1.htm 6. http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/12/3090 7. Rabbit tick transmits Lyme 8. http://www.canlyme.com/confirmedUScasesto2003.html 9. http://www.ashley-pub.com/upload/eid121001.pdf 10.B. Hermsii 11.B. Bissettii, andersoni 12..B. Bissettii 13. Schwartz I. Lyme borreliosis–biology, epidemiology and control. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 2004 Mar [date cited]. Available from:       http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no3/03-0686.htm 14. Intergenic Spacer Region Sequence Data Revealed the Presence of Borrelia bissettii from Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes angustus Ticks, Canadian Association for Clinical       Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2001 15. World Health Organization Collaborating Center http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/who_cc/index.htm Leningrad Nauka Publishers, 1985. To The Top