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Informing Family Caregivers about Vector-Borne Illnesses such as Lyme borreliosis. CanLyme founder and president Jim Wilson and G.Magnotta Foundation for Vector Borne Diseases president and founder Rossana Magnotta speak on Lyme disease topics.
November 13, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Two separate analyses presented here at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 47th Annual Meeting revealed that most of the society’s treatment guidelines are based on expert opinion, nonrandomized trials, and case studies.
*Corresponding author: Jingze Liu jzliu21 [at] heinfo [dot] net Parasites & Vectors 2015, 8:24 doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0628-x Published: 14 January 2015 Ticks, as obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites, attack a broad range of vertebrates and transmit a great diversity of pathogenic microorganisms. They are considered second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, and the most important vector of…
ECCMID Spain, May 10-13th, 2014 Fritsche T.R.; Marti T.N.; Schotthoefer A.M.; Uphoff T.S OBJECTIVES: To establish benchmark prevalence rates of tick-borne diseases (Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia spp., and Babesia microti) post-introduction of nucleic acid amplification assays in an endemic region of the upper Midwestern USA. Expanding distribution of the tick vectors Ixodes scapularis and, to a lesser…
Abstract Objective: Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne infectious disease that may confer an increased risk of mental disorders, but previous studies have been hampered by methodological limitations, including small sample sizes. The authors used a nationwide retrospective cohort study design to examine rates of mental disorders following Lyme borreliosis. Methods: Using Denmark’s National Patient Register…
Bu XL, Yao XQ, Jiao SS, Zeng F, Liu YH, Xiang Y, Liang CR, Wang QH, Wang X, Cao HY, Yi X, Deng B, Liu CH, Xu J, Zhang LL, Gao CY, Xu ZQ, Zhang M, Wang L, Tan XL, Xu X, Zhou HD, Wang YJ European Journal of Neurology, online before print, 2014 Jun…
[CanLyme note: For decades Canadian health care leadership have downplayed the prevalence of Lyme disease (borreliosis) in ticks based upon poor surveillance protocol while ignoring reams of published research. They further downplayed the prevalence of this disease in humans with an outrageous, dangerous and deadly adherence to a testing policy that they knew missed most cases….
