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The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource for Lyme Awareness.
ByCanLyme November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource for Lyme Awareness. Visit our website at https://www.lookingatlyme.ca/resource/ to check it out. This resource has been developed with education and prevention in mind for students in the middle school grades. Through scientific lesson plans, students learn how to…
Read More The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource for Lyme Awareness.
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Promising treatment brings new hope for patients with chronic Lyme disease
ByCanLyme November 22, 2020
Nov. 20, 2020 KENDAL, ONT. — Kevin Matthews was a healthy 58 year old trying to ease into a slower lifestyle, but things took a turn on a trip in 2017. That was the year he was hunting near Kingston, Ont. and was bitten by a tick. He recalls extracting the arthropod from his stomach,…
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Evaluation of pathogen specific urinary peptides in tick-borne illnesses
ByCanLyme November 20, 2020November 20, 2020
Abstract Mass spectrometry enhanced by nanotechnology can achieve previously unattainable sensitivity for characterizing urinary pathogen-derived peptides. We utilized mass spectrometry enhanced by affinity hydrogel particles (analytical sensitivity = 2.5 pg/mL) to study tick pathogen-specific proteins shed in the urine of patients with (1) erythema migrans rash and acute symptoms, (2) post treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), and (3)…
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Canada: Microbiome Composition and Borrelia Detection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks at the Northwestern Edge of Their Range
ByCanLyme November 19, 2020
Abstract Lyme disease-causing Borrelia burgdorferi has been reported in 10–19% of Ixodes ticks from Alberta, Canada, where the tick vector Ixodes scapularis is at the northwestern edge of its range. However, the presence of Borrelia has not been verified independently, and the bacterial microbiome of these ticks has not been described. We performed 16S rRNA bacterial surveys on female I. scapularis from Alberta that were…
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New Podcast: Lyme: the First Epidemic of Climate Change
ByCanLyme November 15, 2020
“In today’s podcast, Sarah talks about ticks, Lyme disease and climate change with investigative reporter Mary Beth Pfeiffer. She lives in New York State, an area of the US which is highly endemic for Lyme disease, and has been investigating this disease for the past eight years. Her search for answers revealed that there was…
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New podcast: Wilderness first aid training and Lyme prevention
ByCanLyme November 8, 2020November 8, 2020
“In today’s podcast, Sarah examines the importance of adequate training in wilderness first aid skills. She speaks with expert Michael Crawford, an instructor at Slipstream Wilderness First Aid in Victoria, BC. Michael points out some of the differences between regular first aid and wilderness first aid. Anyone performing first aid on a patient in a…
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Will this latest Canadian research change the paradigm of testing and lab diagnostics for Lyme disease globally?
ByCanLyme October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
Abstract Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct detection methods, such as bacterial culture or molecular analysis, due to their inadequate sensitivity. The low bacterial burden in vasculature and lack of consensus around blood-based isolation of the causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, are central to this…
Read More Will this latest Canadian research change the paradigm of testing and lab diagnostics for Lyme disease globally?
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New Podcast: Reducing your risk while outdoors
ByCanLyme October 28, 2020
“In this podcast, Sarah speaks with Steve Smith, an expert in outdoor risk management. Steve has worked for many years teaching, leading, planning, and consulting about ways to manage risk in the outdoors. Steve recently presented at the 2020 NOLS Wilderness Risk Management Conference.” Listen to podcast
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View public comments given to the USA Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG)
ByCanLyme October 26, 2020October 29, 2020
[CanLyme Note: In the comments of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) they state,”IDSA continues to advocate for utilizing the best available scientific evidence ” and “While we recognize debate on this subject, we request that any proposed new language reflects the best available data.” The IDSA has routinely ignored, maligned, massaged, and misrepresented…
Read More View public comments given to the USA Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG)
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YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi
ByCanLyme October 24, 2020
Oct. 2020 PLOS PATHOGENS Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen causes persistent infection by evading the host immune response. Differential expression of the surface-exposed lipoprotein VlsE that undergoes antigenic variation is a key immune evasion strategy employed by B. burgdorferi. Most studies focused on the mechanism of VlsE antigen variation, but little is known…
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New Podcast: Back to the lab with Dr. Melanie Wills from the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the University of Guelph
ByCanLyme October 14, 2020October 14, 2020
“In this episode Sarah talks research, Canadian research that is, with Dr. Melanie Wills. She is the Director of the G. Magnotta [Lyme Disease] Research Lab at the University of Guelph, conducting research and studying the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of Lyme disease. She became interested in researching Lyme disease while working on her PhD,…
Read More New Podcast: Back to the lab with Dr. Melanie Wills from the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the University of Guelph
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A message to Canadian Lyme disease patients from W5 TV show. They want you!!
ByCanLyme October 8, 2020
“Hello all, If you are receiving this email then you and I have spoken about the documentary W5 is currently producing on Lyme Disease. We have been working on this documentary for the past few months and working towards an air date later this fall. I need all of your help for one of the…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
Unintended Consequences: The Perils of Publication and Citation Bias
ByCanLyme October 8, 2020October 8, 2020
“The system of scientific communication appears to be more fragile than was once believed.” Decisions made by individuals with particular research goals and an innate propensity for error can affect what others believe in ways we still do not quite understand. Image: MIT Press Reader” “By: Gareth and Rhodri Leng When President Donald Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine as…
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New podcast: Dr. Alexis Cheney from Vermont outlines her expertise on Lyme disease
ByCanLyme October 7, 2020
“In this episode, Sarah hears from Alexis Chesney, a naturopathic physician in Vermont who specializes in Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. She is also author of the book “Preventing Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases”. ” “She points to the different roles practitioners have in a patient’s care, including primary care physicians and specialists such…
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HOW THE INCIDENCE OF AN EM RASH CAN BE INFLATED
ByCanLyme October 6, 2020October 7, 2020
[CanLyme Note: In Canada the percentage of people who have a rash with Lyme disease is much lower than stated. This dissemination of inappropriate information on the incidence of the rash leads to the under-detection of Lyme disease in Canada as seen in this research.] ————————- “The incidence of an erythema migrans (EM) rash, a definitive…
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The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource for Lyme Awareness.

Promising treatment brings new hope for patients with chronic Lyme disease

Evaluation of pathogen specific urinary peptides in tick-borne illnesses

Canada: Microbiome Composition and Borrelia Detection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks at the Northwestern Edge of Their Range

New Podcast: Lyme: the First Epidemic of Climate Change

New podcast: Wilderness first aid training and Lyme prevention

Will this latest Canadian research change the paradigm of testing and lab diagnostics for Lyme disease globally?

New Podcast: Reducing your risk while outdoors

View public comments given to the USA Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG)

YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi

New Podcast: Back to the lab with Dr. Melanie Wills from the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the University of Guelph

A message to Canadian Lyme disease patients from W5 TV show. They want you!!

Unintended Consequences: The Perils of Publication and Citation Bias

New podcast: Dr. Alexis Cheney from Vermont outlines her expertise on Lyme disease

HOW THE INCIDENCE OF AN EM RASH CAN BE INFLATED

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