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Citation: Stricker RB, Johnson L (2014) Lyme Disease: Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic. PLoS Pathog 10(1): e1003796. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003796 Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the world today. Until recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an average of only 30,000 cases of Lyme disease per year…
Emir Hodzic, Denise Imai, Sunlian Feng, Stephen W. Barthold Published: January 23, 2014 Abstract The agent of Lyme borreliosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, evades host immunity and establishes persistent infections in its varied mammalian hosts. This persistent biology may pose challenges to effective antibiotic treatment. Experimental studies in dogs, mice, and non-human primates have found persistence of B. burgdorferi DNA following treatment…
From study author Marianne Middelveen: Motile spirochetes identified as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto were cultured from vaginal and seminal secretions and that supports other evidence that there could be sexual transmission. We are at the early stages of investigation and there is a lot more that we have to learn. We are doing a larger study…
Posted on January 16, 2014 By Bob Goodwin, an investor and medical device entrepreneur who lives in Mercer Island, Washington A recent article in Medscape is titled New Lyme Culture Test Failed CDC Analysis. At first I took the article and paper at face value, and tried to dig into the errors of a chronic-Lyme…
By Rob Houle St. Catherines Standard Sunday, January 19, 2014 Matt Risi wants his life back. For the last 10 years, his health has been in a downward spiral. The bite of an insect that can be the size of the period at the end of this sentence altered his life. Risi has Lyme disease as…
[CanLyme note: The Infectious Disease Society of America’s Lyme Disease guidelines have so many flaws, and are so devoid of independent ethical evaluation in relation to the global databank of research that they may become the most notorious guidelines of the past one-hundred years to have caused so much global disability … all while the…
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:59 By Jessica Bernstein “We’re here because this government has the resources to deal with the AIDS epidemic and they won’t do it unless we force them.” – ACT Up activist protesting the FDA,1988 “I am one of the 300,000 plus annual Lyme patients being ignored by the CDC and HMOs.” – Lyme disease…
DOCTORS and scientists are working to develop the first UK-wide campaign to tackle a chronic bacterial infection that has increased 1000% in Scotland over the past decade. Lyme disease can affect organs such as the heart and brain, resulting in a range of long-term ill-health, including vision and mobility problems. The multi-disciplinary team is being…
Re: “We’ve become a nation of Internet hypochondriacs,” Josh Freed, Opinion, Jan. 2. I take offence to Josh Freed’s sweeping comments about illnesses such as Lyme disease and the Internet creating a nation of hypochondriacs. My partner was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. He had classic MS symptoms, along with other symptoms I did…
…”Much of the contention and controversy with regard to Lyme disease centres on the Infectious Disease of America clinical practice guidelines referenced in the OMR article. Clearly, these guidelines need to be updated and revised.” Read full text
By WILLIAM WEIR, bweir [at] courant [dot] com The Hartford Courant 10:06 p.m. EST, December 31, 2013 A series of fatal cases of Lyme disease in the Northeast, including one from Connecticut, have health officials on the lookout for a very rare complication of the tick-borne disease. The first fatality was in November 2012, when a Massachusetts resident…
By Amanda Persico Dec. 16th, 2013 While tick season is usually in spring and fall, when temperatures are above 4C and there is no snow, the warm spell we had at the beginning of the month could have spurred a tick storm, according to a Markham veterinarian. And blacklegged ticks can carry lyme disease. At the…
Sikutová S, Bunková L, Krejčí E, Halouzka J, Sanogo YO, Rudolf I. Source Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic. Abstract Growth temperature range, resistance to selective antibiotics, activities of 23 enzymes, protein fingerprints and fatty acids composition of the spirochaetal strain BR91, isolated from the Culex pipiens…
Like most Lyme disease patients in Canada, Dawn Lavarnway doesn’t remember when she was bitten by the tick that gave her the crippling illness – but she knows when she found out Canada’s health system wouldn’t treat her for it. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario nurse tried to book an appointment with an infectious…
December 13, 2013 / 62(49);993-996 Lyme disease* is a multisystem illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete transmitted by certain species of Ixodes ticks. Approximately 30,000 confirmed and probable cases of Lyme disease were reported in the United States in 2012, primarily from high-incidence states in the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,…
