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Fecal Transplant, Now in Pill Form [C. difficile is often touted as the reason to withold anitibiotics in Lyme patients, now perhaps that low risk approaches zero]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Gel caps containing concentrated fecal microbes stopped recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and were well-tolerated by recipients, researchers reported here. Among patients with more than three episodes of recurrent C. difficile infection who could not tolerate jejunal catheter or suffered anal incontinence, a single dose of an oral suspension of fecal microbes delivered through several dozen 0.47…

Manitoba – Province identifies new Lyme disease risk areas – CTV News

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CTV Winnipeg  Published Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:16PM CST  Last Updated Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:29PM CST Manitoba Health has identified new and expanded Lyme disease risk areas in the province. The areas were identified through an annual blacklegged tick surveillance program. The province said Lyme disease transmission is highest where blacklegged ticks are most…

A phylogenomic and molecular signature based approach for characterization of the phylum Spirochaetes and its major clades: proposal for a taxonomic revision of the phylum

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The Spirochaetes species cause many important diseases including syphilis and Lyme disease. Except for their containing a distinctive endoflagella, no other molecular or biochemical characteristics are presently known that are specific for either all Spirochaetes or its different families. We report detailed comparative and phylogenomic analyses of protein sequences from Spirochaetes genomes to understand their…

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TICKED OFF: THE MYSTERY OF LYME DISEASE

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On Thursday, October 10th, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki aired their episode on Lyme disease. https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/ticked-off-the-mystery-of-lyme-disease (only available for viewing inside Canada) We have had many comments while others have offered comments at the above link. The general consensus is that if any rational person watched Dr. Gary Wormser from the Infectious Disease…

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Small but deadly

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CBC radio’s, On The Island,with Gregor Craigie British Columbia, Sept.17th, 2013 The number of ticks and the number of people getting sick from ticks is on the rise. We hear more from. We speak to a graduate student who studies the relationship between ticks and humans. Listen to the podcast.  Send feedback to https://www.cbc.ca/ontheisland/contact/

Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection.

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Hue F, Ghalyanchi Langeroudi A, Barbour AG.Genome Announcements. 2013 Sep 12;1(5). pii: e00713-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00713-13 Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly recognized agent of human disease. B. miyamotoi strain LB-2001, an isolate from the tick Ixodes scapularis, was propagated in mice. The sequence of the chromosome was determined by next-generation sequencing of DNA isolated from whole…

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New Hope for Sufferers of Chronic Disease [is questioned] – Global TV Vancouver

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For those within the Chronic Disease Syndrome/ME and fibromyalgia community there was some relief expressed in that finally their diagnosis is being legitimized. This will be one more step in helping with disability claims for conditions that have all too often been labelled as somatoform or, all in the head. The clinic came about as…

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An excellent article… a must read from Lil Anderson in the Lake of the Woods Area News, Western Ontario, Canada

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Lyme disease: A growing concern Story and photos by Lil Anderson [Special thanks to Lake of the Woods Area News and Lil Anderson] The first I heard of Lyme Disease might be of concern in the Lake of the Woods area was in the early ’90’s. At that time, Dr. John Scott from the Lyme-Borreliosis…

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Huffington Post series on Lyme Disease: The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks

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                                       Part 10 in series on the Global Lyme Disease Discussion Borrelia burgdorferi cultivated from the brains of patients suffering from chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis as seen by dark field microscopy Given that according to the CDC, there are 300,000 individuals who are affected annually by Lyme disease in the US, it is astonishing that so…

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ILADS 15th Annual Lyme Disease Conference – North America

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Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference   Objective  To provide physicians and other medical practitioners with insight into recent developments in the understanding of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, and to provide basic tools and strategies for counseling prevention, and for diagnosing and treating these diseases. Conference Description and Goals To provide a historical perspective…

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Think You’re Allergic to Penicillin? You Might Think Again

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Jeffrey Kopman Published: Sep 10, 2013, 11:46 AM EDT weather.com A late-summer hike results in tired legs, a sweaty body and a tick bite. The feeding tick infects you with Lyme disease, but your treatment options are limited because you had an allergic reaction to penicillin as a child. This dilemma is fairly common —…

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Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic

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By Pamela Fayerman Dr. Lucy Kinninmonth has been to about 20 different medical specialists in the past year, all of whom doubt she’s got chronic Lyme disease even though her symptoms, along with a blood test she had in the U.S., confirmed it, as far as she’s concerned. The Port Coquitlam veterinarian is now one of 650…

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In Vivo Expression Technology Identifies a Novel Virulence Factor

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Authors: Ellis TC, Jain S, Linowski AK, Rike K, Bestor A, Rosa PA, Halpern M, Kurhanewicz S, Jewett MW Citation: PLoS Pathog. 2013(Aug); 9(8): e1003567. Location: Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003567 Analysis of the transcriptome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative…

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The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi

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R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA  In vertebrates including humans, mice and dogs, the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) causes a chronic, non-resolving infection known as Lyme disease, which requires antibiotic treatment to clear the bacteria. Re-infections are common in endemic regions. Similarly, mice…