The Platelet Fraction is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood

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Oct 31, 2014 A woman was left with a paralysed face after being bitten on the thigh by ticks. Claire Dean, 43, got Lyme disease after being bitten – and it has left her with Bell’s palsy and chronic fatigue syndrome. The mum of two told the Daily Record: “My face is still paralysed and…
[CanLyme Note: NO TICK IS A GOOD TICK] Malia Radmore’s mother believes she picked up the tick at a local park and showed symptoms days later Malia Radmore is usually an energetic toddler, running around, so when she began crawling on Wednesday, her mother Melissa Radmore just thought she was playing. But when it was…
RE: Lyme carditis and neuroborreliosis Edward J Cormode [MD, FRCP], Retired paediatrician, Canadian Medical Association The three cases presented in the “Practice “section of the May 25, 2020 CMAJ provide an informative discussion of the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme carditis and neuroborreliosis in a tertiary care centre. I am a retired Ontario pediatrician and coroner, having practiced for…
[CanLyme Note: As a result of the allegations revealed in the below article by Jenna Luche-Thayer, CanLyme wrote the following letter to Canadian leaders, sent December 21st, 2018, “Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Honorable Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, Honorable Minister Jody Wilson-Rebould, Dr. Mithani, Dr. Tam, Honorable Andrew Scheer, Elizabeth May and Jagmeet Singh, The news that we…
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review – Posted Nov 15th, 2019 ABSTRACT Lyme disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb or B. burgdorferi) is a most common vector-borne, multi-systemic disease in USA. Although, most Lyme disease patients can be cured with a course of antibiotic treatment, a significant percent of…
The debilitating tick-borne disease is well-documented north of the Mason-Dixon line, but does it exist beyond that? By Wendy Orent, Friday, November 01, 2013 Kerry Clark never wanted to show that Lyme disease exists in the Southern United States by catching it himself. Clark is a medical entomologist at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville….