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Medical Publications | Research
The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North Dakota despite bordering high-risk counties in Minnesota. Recent reports of B. burgdorferi and I. scapularis in North Dakota, however, prompted a more detailed examination. Spirochetes cultured from the hearts of five rodents trapped in Grand Forks…
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Medical Publications | Research
Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Yancey Caroline B., Hegarty Barbara C., Qurollo Barbara A., Levy Michael G., Birkenheuer Adam J., Weber David J., Diniz Pedro P.V.P., and Breitschwerdt Edward B. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. October 2014, 14(10): 724-732. doi:10.1089/vbz.2014.1592. Published in Volume: 14 Issue 10: October 17, 2014 Correspondence to: E-mail: cbyancey [at] hotmail [dot] com ABSTRACT Vector-borne disease (VBD) pathogens…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions
ByCanLyme Team October 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Giovanni Matera, et al NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, 37, 393-397, 2014 Late/chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) represents a challenging entity whose diagnosis requires a combination of clinical and laboratory findings, surrounded by much controversy. Here we describe a patient who had a peculiar form of late LNB with CNS lesions shown by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and epileptic…
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Medical Publications | Research
A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
ByCanLyme Team October 11, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way to separate Borrelia into groups; the diagnosis is being missed and current human testing is terrible.] Adeolu M, Gupta RS Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2014 Jun;105(6):1049-72. Abstract The genus Borrelia contains two groups of organisms: the causative agents…
Read More A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous
Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!
ByCanLyme Team October 6, 2014April 21, 2023
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite kid) and take a video of you sucking the lime dry 2. In your video, nominate 3 friends to take the Lyme Sucks Challenge & tag them when you post your video 3. Post your video…
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For Physicians | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents
ByCanLyme Team September 30, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related Lyme disease (borreliosis)] Journal of Medical Entomology 51(5):1029-1034. 2014 Nathan C. Nieto and Mike B. Teglas ABSTRACT Wild rodent reservoir host species were surveyed prospectively for infection with Borrelia hermsii, the causative agent of tick-borne relapsing fever in the…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Media | Miscellaneous
Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team September 30, 2014April 21, 2023
Near Kingston, ON- For the first time Kingston, Frontenac and Lennon & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Region is taking matters into its own hands by dragging for ticks, or ‘active surveillance.’ “Lyme disease has become established now in Eastern Ontario. This was not a concern 10 years ago and now it is a health concern,” said…
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Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Media | Miscellaneous
Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it’s just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding Sep 24, 2014 | By Marianne Lavelle and The Daily Climate Ticks that spread Lyme disease don’t always deliver their misery neat. They can serve up a cocktail of pathogens with one infectious bite….
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Lyme in Alberta | Lyme in New Brunswick | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world’s most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope with Lyme disease’s migration in North America Sep 24, 2014 | By Marianne Lavelle and The Daily Climate Vett Lloyd saved the tick that latched onto her while she was…
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Lyme Controversy | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
Canada is under pressure to show leadership as Lyme spreads, but its ‘action plan’ shows it’s out of touch Anne Kingston July 30th, 2014 The term “litterbug” was popularized in the 1950s in public service announcements produced by Keep America Beautiful, a non-profit composed of government agencies, citizens, and corporations–Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola, among them….
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Government | Government reports & letters | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme
Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.
ByCanLyme Team September 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Second Reading–Debate Adjourned Hon. Janis G. Johnson moved second reading of Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease. She said: Honourable senators, it is a great honour to address Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease. I thank Elizabeth May, member of Parliament, for asking me to…
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For Physicians | Medical Publications
Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor
ByCanLyme Team September 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Not accustomed to visiting hospital executive suites, I took my seat in the waiting room somewhat warily. Seated across from me was a handsome man in a well-tailored three-piece suit, whose thoroughly professional appearance made me – in my rumpled white coat, sheaves of dog-eared paper bulging from both pockets – feel out of place. Within…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Chris D. Crowder, Heather E. Carolan, Megan A. Rounds, Vaclav Honig, Benedikt Mothes, Heike Haag, Oliver Nolte, Ben J. Luft, Libor Grubhoffer, David J. Ecker, Steven E. Schutzer, and Mark W. Eshoo AbstractBorrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever-related spirochete transmitted by Ixodes ticks, has been recently shown to be a human pathogen. To characterize the prevalence…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease can’t keep Manotick baker down
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Manotick News By Emma Jackson Veronique Ayling has been dreaming of her own cupcake shop for the better part of a decade. The Greely resident grew up in the Laurentians baking with her grandmother, but instead of opening her own shop she joined the Canadian Armed Forces, where she works in its investigations unit. But…
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Co-infections | Featured | Research
Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
J Veter Sci MedAugust 2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 August 29, 2014 AbstractWe provide the first reported case of tick paralysis in a wildlife animal caused by the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls. Six I. pacificus females and one male were collected from a feral Snowshoe Hare roaming the coastal area of southwestern British Columbia, Canada….
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The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.

Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance

Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions

Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!

Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents

Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease

Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming

Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North

Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch

Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.

Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor

Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States

Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease can’t keep Manotick baker down

Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada

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