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New Podcast: Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, Professor of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
ByCanLyme January 13, 2021
Welcome back! Season 2 of the Looking at Lyme podcast starts now. Dr. Theoharides has been on the leading edge of mast cell research and recounts the fascinating history and physiology of mast cells. Mast cells have existed for over a hundred million years in many different animals and organisms and are found in all…
Read More New Podcast: Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, Professor of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
For Physicians | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Borrelia burgdorferi-Induced Changes in the Class II Self-Immunopeptidome Displayed on HLA-DR Molecules Expressed by Dendritic Cells
ByCanLyme December 25, 2020December 25, 2020
September 2020 The MHC class II antigen processing and presentation pathway has evolved to derive short amino acid peptides from proteins that enter the endocytic pathway, load them onto MHC class II molecules and display them on the surface of antigen presenting cells for recognition by CD4+ T cells. Under normal circumstances, peptides bound to MHC…
Read More Borrelia burgdorferi-Induced Changes in the Class II Self-Immunopeptidome Displayed on HLA-DR Molecules Expressed by Dendritic Cells
Education | For Physicians | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
Phase 4 Block of the Right Bundle Branch Suggesting His-Purkinje System Involvement in Lyme Carditis
ByCanLyme December 1, 2020December 1, 2020
[CanLyme Note: As new research unfolds we are discovering that borrelia other than Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) are pathogenic to humans. Much research is required to garner a broader understanding of cardiovascular and other system involvement and presentation. Testing currently is too focused on Bb and even with that it has many limitations and inaccuracies resulting in many…
Read More Phase 4 Block of the Right Bundle Branch Suggesting His-Purkinje System Involvement in Lyme Carditis
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Canada’s CTV investigative reporting show W5 explores Lyme disease: Bitten
ByCanLyme November 30, 2020
Nov. 21, 2020 W5 TV show delves into Lyme disease and the lack of proper diagnostics and treatment in Canada. Patients stories are told and important issues are discussed that can affect most Canadians either by themselves, family or friends in the coming years. Watch Bitten
Read More Canada’s CTV investigative reporting show W5 explores Lyme disease: Bitten
Education | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
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.
Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
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,…
Read More Promising treatment brings new hope for patients with chronic Lyme disease
Co-infections | For Physicians | Miscellaneous | Research | Voices on Lyme
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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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme in Alberta | Research
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…
Read More Canada: Microbiome Composition and Borrelia Detection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks at the Northwestern Edge of Their Range
For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
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…
Read More New Podcast: Lyme: the First Epidemic of Climate Change
For Physicians | Miscellaneous | Prevention | Voices on Lyme
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…
Read More New podcast: Wilderness first aid training and Lyme prevention
For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
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?
Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
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
Read More New Podcast: Reducing your risk while outdoors
For Physicians | Government reports & letters | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
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)
For Physicians | Miscellaneous | Research
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…
Read More YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi
For Physicians | Lyme in Ontario | Media | News from CanLyme | Research | Voices on Lyme
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

News and updates

One year later: How the landmark NASEM report on chronic Lyme is – and isn’t – changing minds

Germs spread by ticks and cats found in suicidal youth

Scholarship opportunity for undergraduates with a project focused on Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases

Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada’s defining climate-health challenges

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

New Podcast: Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, Professor of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.

Borrelia burgdorferi-Induced Changes in the Class II Self-Immunopeptidome Displayed on HLA-DR Molecules Expressed by Dendritic Cells

Phase 4 Block of the Right Bundle Branch Suggesting His-Purkinje System Involvement in Lyme Carditis

Canada’s CTV investigative reporting show W5 explores Lyme disease: Bitten

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

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