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Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Norris DE. The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland. Abstract Spotted fever group rickettsiosis (SFGR) is a potentially fatal disease that has displayed increasing incidence in the United States in recent years. The most…
Maria-Jesus Sanz, Connie H. Y. Wong, Pierre-Olivier Hardy, Aydan Salman-Dilgimen, Tara J. Moriart, George Chaconas, Adriana Marques, Roman Krawetz, Christopher H. Mody, Paul Kubes Abstract CXCR6-GFP+ cells, which encompass 70% invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT cells), have been found primarily patrolling inside blood vessels in the liver. Although the iNKT cells fail to interact with…
Meagan F. Vaughn et al, September 2014, doi:10.1128/JCM.01733-14 ABSTRACT Increasing entomologic and epidemiologic evidence suggests that spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) other than Rickettsia rickettsii are responsible for spotted fever rickettsioses in the US. A retrospective seroepidemiologic study was conducted on stored acute and convalescent sera that had been submitted for Rocky Mountain spotted fever testing to…
Natalia Fedorova, Joyce E. Kleinjan, David James, Lucia T. Hui, Hans Peeters, Robert S. Lane Abstract The diversity of Lyme disease (LD) and relapsing fever (RF)-group spirochetes in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay area in northern California is poorly understood. We tested Ixodes pacificus, I. spinipalpis, and small mammals for presence of borreliae in Alameda…
Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980 Shane Woodford September 08, 2014 08:24 pm A woman suffering from Lyme disease had to turn to crowd funding to figure out why a BC government effort to treat the disease has gone off the rails. Gwen Barlee says the province opened a special clinic in 2013…
[CanLyme note: Congratulations to to the US House of Representatives for passing this important legislation. Years of hard work by Lyme disease advocates and dedicated representatives has moved the Lyme issue one step closer to taking the control away from the medical political, for-profit associated, bureaucrats and giving it back to pure scientists and patients….
MARK HUME VANCOUVER – The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Sep. 09 2014, 8:00 AM EDT Saying she was frustrated because patients weren’t being adequately diagnosed or treated for Lyme disease, Liz Zubek quit British Columbia’s new Complex Chronic Disease Program (CCDP) in June. Now, Dr. Zubek has teamed up with Lyme disease patients in a crowdfunding project to pay…
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN, VANCOUVER SUN SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 In tickety-tock time Monday morning, a Lyme disease advocate was successful in crowdsourcing enough money to pay the Provincial Health Services Authority fee for documents requested through a Freedom of Information request. Half the $2,160 fee came from Dr. Liz Zubek, a former physician with the Complex Chronic…
By April Hudson, Spruce Grove Examiner/Stony Plain Reporter Friday, September 5, 2014 2:31:03 MDT PM Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Osteoporosis. Myo facial pain syndrome. Those are just a few of the diagnoses Taylor George has been handed over the past 13 years by doctors who don’t know what’s wrong with her. She lost some of her sight,…
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Available online 20 August 2014. Abstract The hard tick Ixodes uriae parasitises a wide range of seabird species in the circumpolar areas of both Northern and Southern hemispheres and has been shown to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the bacterial agents of Lyme borreliosis. Although it is assumed that seabirds…
Original Air Date: Friday, July 11, 2014 We’re hearing the story of one Alberta woman’s life-changing battle against Lyme disease before speaking with Alberta’s top doctor on the controversy around the disease and if enough is being done to treat those suffering. Is Lyme in Alberta? And how will a new federal framework change the way…
August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM | Last updated: August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM Every year, hundreds of Canadians are diagnosed with Lyme disease. According to Lyme disease advocates thousands are living with illness caused by a tick bite it without even knowing they have it. CHCH News followed up Wednesday with Shelby Macneil, the subject of a…
BY SHEREEN LEHMAN Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brazilian ticks that carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever passed the disease to animal hosts in as little as 10 minutes if they had recently fed on another animal, a new study found. “The current literature, including medical textbooks and guidelines for…
Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged in 2008. Since then, it has continued to spread at an alarming rate. “We are predicting a rate of expansion of seven or eight kilometers per year northward in southern Quebec,” said Virginie Millien, a professor…
BY DAVE DORMER ,CALGARY SUN August 16, 2014 While it has yet to establish a real foothold in Alberta, the prevalence of Lyme disease is increasing, meaning it will likely one day be here to stay, says the province’s medical officer of health. Caused by a bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme disease is transmitted…
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