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Listen To Voice America Radio Show – CanLyme President, Jim Wilson, and Director, Janet Sperling.
ByCanLyme Team August 13, 2012April 21, 2023
Lyme Disease Challenges for Family Caregivers and Family Members August 14, 2012 Hosted by Dr. Gordon Atherley Jim Wilson, President and founder of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, is himself a victim of Lyme disease and the father of victims of Lyme disease. Janet Sperling is a trained entomologist whose 15 year-old son fell desperately…
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Conferences | For Physicians
ILADS 2012 Boston Lyme Disease Conference
ByCanLyme Team August 13, 2012April 21, 2023
The Thirteenth Annual ILADS professional conference is focused on evidence-based medicine as it relates to Lyme disease and other tick- borne illnesses. More Info
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Lyme in Alberta | News from CanLyme | Research
Lyme-carrying ticks on the rise in Alberta
ByCanLyme Team August 11, 2012April 21, 2023
Lack of familiarity may mean disease goes undiagnosed. Lyme disease in Alberta has the potential to spike in coming years, with new information pointing to an increased population of disease-carrying ticks. “We have found that some of the ticks are present in Alberta and a small number have been found to have Lyme in them,”…
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Updates
Recrudescence des cas de la maladie de lyme dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau
ByCanLyme August 10, 2012June 2, 2023
Mise en garde contre la maladie de Lyme à Ottawa Le bureau de Santé publique d’Ottawa a lancé une campagne d’information sur la maladie de Lyme, une infection causée par une bactérie transmise par la piqûre d’une tique infectée. Chaque année, environ cinq cas sont signalés dans la grande région de la capitale nationale, mais…
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Featured | For Physicians | Lyme in Ontario | Research
Lyme disease on the increase in Ontario, Canada
ByCanLyme Team August 10, 2012April 21, 2023
CBC TV Ottawa … Lyme disease ticks likely breeding in Ottawa Ticks carrying Lyme disease are likely breeding in Ottawa, leading to an increase in reported cases, according to a doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). Lyme disease is a bacterial infection often transmitted by an infected tick and causing muscle pain,…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous
Lyme on the rise … Northumberland, Ontario
ByCanLyme Team August 10, 2012April 21, 2023
NORTHUMBERLAND — A rise in Lyme disease cases in Ontario has the local health unit urging people to be cautious. The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit (HKPR) said the population of blacklegged ticks is spreading into new areas of the province and with them, comes the possibility of transmitting Lyme disease. The ticks…
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Updates
Recrudescence des cas de la maladie de lyme dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau
ByCanLyme Team August 10, 2012April 21, 2023
Mise en garde contre la maladie de Lyme à Ottawa Le bureau de Santé publique d’Ottawa a lancé une campagne d’information sur la maladie de Lyme, une infection causée par une bactérie transmise par la piqûre d’une tique infectée. Chaque année, environ cinq cas sont signalés dans la grande région de la capitale nationale, mais…
Read More Recrudescence des cas de la maladie de lyme dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau
For Physicians | International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Research
Another tick borne disease to guard against. [already in Canada]
ByCanLyme Team August 1, 2012April 21, 2023
Despite its many delights, summer also brings its fair share of pestilence. One, called babesiosis, has only recently been widely recognized as a potentially serious outdoor hazard. According to a very detailed study conducted on Block Island, R.I., it could eventually rival Lyme disease as the most common tick-borne ailment in the United States. But…
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Lyme in Alberta
Lyme disease becoming more prevalent in Alberta
ByCanLyme Team July 31, 2012April 21, 2023
Experts say it’s because of increased precipitation during summer Albertans normally don’t have to worry about ticks that carry Lyme disease, but it’s a different story this summer. Alberta Health has confirmed two cases since June that may have been homegrown. Alberta’s dry prairie climate used to keep those pests at bay, but researchers say…
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Research
Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection.
ByCanLyme Team July 26, 2012April 21, 2023
“Our studies do however offer proof of the principle that intact spirochetes can persist in an incidental host comparable to humans, following antibiotic therapy. Additionally, our experiments uncover residual antigen associated with inflammatory foci.” Embers ME, Barthold SW, Borda JT, Bowers L, Doyle L, et al. (2012) Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following…
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Research
Vector competence of the tick Ixodes ricinus for transmission of Bartonella birtlesii
ByCanLyme Team July 26, 2012April 21, 2023
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011;5(5):e1186. Epub 2011 May 31. Reis C, Cote M, Le Rhun D, Lecuelle B, Levin ML, Vayssier-Taussat M, Bonnet SI. Source Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, USC INRA Bartonella-Tiques, ANSES, Maisons-Alfort, France. Abstract Bartonella spp. are facultative intracellular vector-borne bacteria associated with several emerging diseases in humans and animals all…
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Miscellaneous
Whatever happened to the Lyme disease vaccine?
ByCanLyme July 26, 2012
Steere not only helped discover Lyme disease in 1977 in the small town of Lyme, Conn., the rheumatologist has made the illness his life’s work and helped figure out how to create a vaccine against it. LYMErix was unique among vaccines because it worked … See all stories on this topic » Powered by WPeMatico
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International News
Tiny things, big problems
ByCanLyme July 22, 2012
Many months and numerous doctor visits later, she finally had the answer: Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States. Emily Walker acquired some of the same set of symptoms a year ago … Read publication Powered by WPeMatico
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Research
Borrelia Burgdorferi Evades the Effects of Ceftriaxone Treatment in a Mouse Model of Lyme Borreliosis
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a tick-borne infectious disease with variable symptoms. The most common manifestation of LB is an expanding rash on the skin but frequently arthritic or neurological and occasionally cardiac or ocular symptoms are seen.
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Research
Lyme borreliosis in Canada: biological diversity and diagnostic complexity from an entomological perspective
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Lyme borreliosis (LB), also known as Lyme disease, is emerging as a serious tick- borne illness across Canada. More than three decades of research on LB in North America and Europe have provided a large, complex body of research involving well-documented difficulties at several levels.
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News and updates

Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

Feeling sick after eating that steak dinner? You could have a rare but potentially severe tick-borne allergy

Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease

Why Lyme disease isn’t the only tick-borne infection you need to worry about

Lyme disease and your pregnancy: Why avoiding tick bites could protect your unborn child

Lack of experience no obstacle at this obstacle course

Interventions to manage mold and mycotoxicities

Environmental toxicities: Confounding presentations

Listen To Voice America Radio Show – CanLyme President, Jim Wilson, and Director, Janet Sperling.

ILADS 2012 Boston Lyme Disease Conference

Lyme-carrying ticks on the rise in Alberta

Recrudescence des cas de la maladie de lyme dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau

Lyme disease on the increase in Ontario, Canada

Lyme on the rise … Northumberland, Ontario

Recrudescence des cas de la maladie de lyme dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau

Another tick borne disease to guard against. [already in Canada]

Lyme disease becoming more prevalent in Alberta

Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection.

Vector competence of the tick Ixodes ricinus for transmission of Bartonella birtlesii

Whatever happened to the Lyme disease vaccine?

Tiny things, big problems

Borrelia Burgdorferi Evades the Effects of Ceftriaxone Treatment in a Mouse Model of Lyme Borreliosis

Lyme borreliosis in Canada: biological diversity and diagnostic complexity from an entomological perspective

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