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Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Pathogenic spirochetes are bacteria that cause a number of emerging and re-emerging diseases worldwide, including syphilis, leptospirosis, relapsing fever, and Lyme borreliosis
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HrpA, a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase, Is Involved in Global Gene Regulation in the Lyme Disease Spirochete
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Spirochetes causing Lyme borreliosis are obligate parasites that can only be found in a tick vector or a vertebrate host. The ability to survive in these two disparate environments requires up and downregulation of specific genes by regulatory circuits that remain largely obscure.
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Investigation of the genes involved in antigenic switching at the vlsE locus in Borrelia burgdorferi: an essential role for the RuvAB branch migrase.
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Persistent infection by pathogenic organisms requires effective strategies for the defense of these organisms against the host immune response.
Read More Investigation of the genes involved in antigenic switching at the vlsE locus in Borrelia burgdorferi: an essential role for the RuvAB branch migrase.
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An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Here we investigate the dynamics of the hepatic intravascular immune response to a pathogen relevant to invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT cells).
Read More An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells
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Detection of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, including three novel genotypes in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from songbirds (Passeriformes) across Canada
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
The source of sporadic Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) across Canada has been a mystery. Several tenets abound about the origin of this bacterial illness, but science is often lacking.
Read More Detection of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, including three novel genotypes in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from songbirds (Passeriformes) across Canada
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Widespread dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada.
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Scott JD, Anderson JF, Durden LA J Parasitol 2011 08 24 Abstract Millions of Lyme disease vector ticks are dispersed annually by songbirds across Canada, but often overlooked as the source of infection. For clarity on vector distribution, we sampled 481 ticks (12 species and 3 undetermined ticks) from 211 songbirds (42 species/subspecies) nationwide. Using…
Read More Widespread dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada.
Research
Genetic blueprint of bacteria causing Lyme disease unraveled
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Benjamin Luft, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and a team of medical researchers have determined the genetic blueprint of 13 strains of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The finding is crucial to advancing research on Lyme disease, the most frequent tick-borne infection in North America and Europe, and may lead to better diagnostics and a vaccine
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Whole-Genome Sequences of Thirteen Isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease in North America and Eurasia. The first complete genome sequence of B. burgdorferi strain 31, available for more than a decade, has assisted research on the pathogenesis of Lyme disease.
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CSM Murray Award Lecture – Functional studies of the Lyme disease spirochete – from molecules to mice
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary
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Pets
What are the Top Ten Dog Diseases?
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Dog Diseases number in the scores, just as in humans. But, veterinarians tend to see some much more than others. Sadly, a great deal of grief could be avoided if more dog owners were careful to see that their pets are immunized regularly against preventable dog diseases.
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Pets
Vaccinate pets against Lyme disease: vets
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Veterinarians are recommending that pets be vaccinated against the deer tick because the number of pests carrying Lyme disease is on the rise in southeastern New Brunswick.
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Pets
Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis and Dirofilaria immitis among dogs in Canada.
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
In Canada, the environmental suitability for Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum vectors, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus, appears to be growing. In 1991, there was one known endemic location for I. scapularis while currently there are at least eleven. An estimated 8–12% of the 50–175 million adventitious I. scapularis ticks that enter Canada on birds are positive for B. burgdorferi.
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Miscellaneous
Science, Fear, and the Realities of Lyme Disease in Canada
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
I am a scientist and a Lyme disease sufferer, and I am writing to warn you about the realities of Lyme disease, and the failure of our governments to acknowledge its prevalence in Canada. This story is filled with controversy, I am one of its victims, and I am far from alone.
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Miscellaneous
Magnotta Fights Lyme
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Magnotta is Ontario’s third largest winery and the only company of its kind in Canada licensed to produce and sell wine, beer and distilled products. With over 3,500 awards to date for product excellence, Magnotta is Canada’s most award winning winery.
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Miscellaneous
Squamish doctor awarded Order of Canada for years of public service
ByCanLyme Team July 21, 2012April 21, 2023
By Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun, August 6, 2009 8:01 PM Dr. LaVerne Clifford Kindree has been admitted to the Order of Canada in recognition for more than 50 years of public service in Squamish, which in its length and depth can only be described as astonishing. The citation for the award gives an indication of…
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News and updates

Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

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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

Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host

HrpA, a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase, Is Involved in Global Gene Regulation in the Lyme Disease Spirochete

Investigation of the genes involved in antigenic switching at the vlsE locus in Borrelia burgdorferi: an essential role for the RuvAB branch migrase.

An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells

Detection of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, including three novel genotypes in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from songbirds (Passeriformes) across Canada

Widespread dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada.

Genetic blueprint of bacteria causing Lyme disease unraveled

Whole-Genome Sequences of Thirteen Isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi

CSM Murray Award Lecture – Functional studies of the Lyme disease spirochete – from molecules to mice

What are the Top Ten Dog Diseases?

Vaccinate pets against Lyme disease: vets

Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis and Dirofilaria immitis among dogs in Canada.

Science, Fear, and the Realities of Lyme Disease in Canada

Magnotta Fights Lyme

Squamish doctor awarded Order of Canada for years of public service

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