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Bartonella henselae Infections In An Owner and Two Papillon Dogs Exposed to Tropical Rat Mites (Ornithonyssus bacoti).
ByCanLyme Team November 9, 2014April 21, 2023
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2014 Oct;14(10):703-9. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1492. Abstract After raccoons were trapped and removed from under a house in New York, the owner and her two Papillon dogs became infested with numerous rat mites (Ornithonyssus bacoti). Two weeks later, both dogs developed pruritus, progressively severe vesicular lesions, focal areas of skin exfoliation, swelling of…
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A possible alternative to antibiotics
ByCanLyme Team November 9, 2014April 21, 2023
[Canlyme note: Although Borrelia are not known to secrete toxins, this type of research may be beneficial for chemical constituents such as borrelia lipoproteins and lipopolysaccharides.] November 4th, 2014 Published online 02 November 2014 in Nature Biotechnology Engineered liposomes sequester bacterial exotoxins and protect from severe invasive infections in mice Abstract Gram-positive bacterial pathogens that secrete cytotoxic…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Research
Case of tick paralysis found on Sunshine Coast
ByCanLyme Team November 6, 2014April 21, 2023
Hikers attempt to save snowshoe hare with engorged ticks Christine Wood/Glacier Media / Squamish Chief [newspaper] November 5, 2014 01:49 PM The first case of tick paralysis ever recorded in a wild animal was identified on the Sunshine Coast recently with the help of the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Hikers on a trail near Burnett Road…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Poor Research
Lyme Misdiagnosis Can Divert Patients From Correct Treatment
ByCanLyme Team November 4, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: We agree totally that a thorough diagnostic work-up should preclude any diagnosis. Not everything is Lyme borreliosis. What is so dismaying, however, is the focus of the US CDC MD’s on the few cases such as those listed in this article, while they ignore the tens of thousands of legitimate chronic Lyme disease cases….
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New test shows promise in identifying new drugs to treat Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team November 3, 2014April 21, 2023
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a test they say will allow them to test thousands of FDA-approved drugs to see if they will work against the bacteria that causes tick-borne Lyme disease. The researchers, reporting Nov. 3 in the journal PLOS ONE, say doctors and patients are desperate…
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Climate change brings Lyme disease to Canada
ByCanLyme Team November 2, 2014April 21, 2023
by GAIL JOHNSON on OCT 29, 2014 JIM WILSON, FOUNDER of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was in an Ottawa hotel room, in lockdown, with his curtains drawn when the Georgia Straight caught up with him. It was October 22, that terrible day of the shootings at Parliament; Wilson had flown from B.C. to…
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Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
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…
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Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
CAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from Sydney University to ask residents to keep and freeze the little crawlers. The university is currently three years into a national study into pathogens in ticks, and research fellow Ann Mitrovic said the northern beaches was…
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Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to report. We disagree with this quote in the article, “Health care providers should consider as a cause of cardiac symptoms in patients who live in or have visited a high-incidence Lyme disease region, especially during summer…
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Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment
ByCanLyme Team October 29, 2014April 21, 2023
Robert Mangelsdorf – Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness in her face. Soon, Kitsilano mother Susan Schirk’s toes began cramping up so severely, she couldn’t unclench them. Then the cramping spread to her arms. “I couldn’t hold up a blowdryer,” she says. “I would wash…
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Medical Publications | Research
A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
ByCanLyme Team October 28, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. In children, neuroborreliosis usually presents as peripheral facial nerve palsy and lymphocytic meningitis, and only rarely is associated with cranial polyneuritis. Case We present a 15 year-old with tinnitus, hearing…
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Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes
ByCanLyme Team October 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1). It provides video evidence that the spirochaetes continue their development within the cell. Materials and methods The medium to hold blood cells stable on a microscope slide mini-culture was prepared as: Watch Videos, Access Paper
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Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information
ByCanLyme Team October 20, 2014April 21, 2023
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about improving treatment in Canada. Dr. Vett Lloyd has been tracking ticks infected with the disease for years and says many people who are infected are forced to seek help in the United States. That means…
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Medical Publications | Research
Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract: The geographic distributions of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) are expanding in the USA. To assess the role of migratory songbirds in the spread of this tick and pathogen, we captured passerines in central Illinois during the fall of 2012. We compared forested sites…
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Medical Publications | Research
MyD88- and TRIF-independent induction of type I interferon drives naive B cell accumulation but not loss of lymph node architecture in Lyme disease.
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Hastey CJ, Ochoa J, Olsen KJ, Barthold SW, Baumgarth N. Abstract Rapidly after infection, live Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is found within lymph nodes, causing rapid and strong tissue enlargement, a loss of demarcation between B cell follicles and T cell zones, and an unusually large accumulation of B cells. We…
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Bartonella henselae Infections In An Owner and Two Papillon Dogs Exposed to Tropical Rat Mites (Ornithonyssus bacoti).

A possible alternative to antibiotics

Case of tick paralysis found on Sunshine Coast

Lyme Misdiagnosis Can Divert Patients From Correct Treatment

New test shows promise in identifying new drugs to treat Lyme disease

Climate change brings Lyme disease to Canada

Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden

Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks

Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death

Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment

A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes

Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information

Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration

MyD88- and TRIF-independent induction of type I interferon drives naive B cell accumulation but not loss of lymph node architecture in Lyme disease.

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