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Prevent Lyme Disease with Showers and Fences [Yale study]
ByCanLyme Team December 6, 2012April 21, 2023
Infection can cause complications if not treat early, but research suggests you can prevent Lyme disease with some simple tactics. RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA–In the Northeastern United States, the place where you’re most likely to be bitten by a tick carrying Lyme disease is not in the woods, but in your own backyard. Fortunately, research…
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International News | Medical Publications
Off-the-Charts Anxiety: Is a Tick Bite Making You Nuts?
ByCanLyme Team December 6, 2012April 21, 2023
Tick-borne infections aren’t just causing sore joints and swollen knees. Some cause psychiatric symptoms that often go untreated, some experts say. “…tick-borne infections could actually trigger panic attacks and other psychiatric disorders in some people. “After treating thousands of patients with tick-borne disease in the past 20 years, it appears psychiatric symptoms are more commonly…
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Medical Publications | Research
Biofilms: A New Hideout for Borrelia burgdorferi?
ByCanLyme Team December 4, 2012April 21, 2023
The University of New Haven established a Lyme Disease Research group six years ago. To date, over forty graduate students have received training in Lyme disease related research. One of our recent projects studies the different formations of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacteria. With coauthor Dr. Alan MacDonald, we recently suggested that Borrelia burgdorferi…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Evaluation of in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility of different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi
ByCanLyme Team December 4, 2012April 21, 2023
Background: Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Although antibiotic therapy is usually effective early in the disease, relapse may occur when administration of antibiotics is discontinued. Studies have suggested that resistance and recurrence of Lyme disease might be due to formation of different morphological forms of B. burgdorferi, namely…
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There will likely never be a Lyme vaccine says researcher Alan Barbour.
ByCanLyme Team December 4, 2012April 21, 2023
Why some strains of Lyme disease bacteria are common and others are not Findings could lead to novel strategy to control disease New clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the…
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Medical Publications | Research
Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health
ByCanLyme Team December 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Summary Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex is a diverse group of worldwide distributed bacteria that includes 18 named spirochete species and a still not named group proposed as genomospecies 2 (Postic et al., 2007). Descriptions of new species and variants continue to be recognized, so the current number of described species is probably not…
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Medical Publications | Research
Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii
ByCanLyme Team December 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Gabriele Margos,a,* Andrias Hojgaard,b Robert S. Lane,c Muriel Cornet,d Volker Fingerle,e Nataliia Rudenko,f Nicholas Ogden,g David M. Aanensen,h Durland Fish,i and Joseph Piesman,b Abstract Using multilocus sequence analyses (MLSA), we investigated the phylogenetic relationship of spirochaete strains from North America previously assigned to the genospecies Borrelia bissettii. We amplified internal fragments of 8 housekeeping genes…
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International News | Medical Publications | Research
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
ByCanLyme Team December 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and transmitted by the same hard-body tick species. We report 46 cases of B. miyamotoi infection in humans and compare the frequency and clinical manifestations of this infection with those caused by B. garinii and B. burgdorferi infection. All 46 patients lived in Russia and had…
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Medical Publications | Research
Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.
ByCanLyme Team December 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek Nadja Mallatová Libor Grubhoffer ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of a clinical sample confirmed the presence of Borrelia bissettii DNA in cardiac valve tissue from a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis. This evidence strongly supports the involvement of B. bissettii in Lyme disease in Europe. Read…
Read More Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.
Updates
Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse
ByCanLyme December 1, 2012June 2, 2023
La Presse Canadienne Fredericton Le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme est en hausse au Nouveau-Brunswick, selon des chercheurs de l’Université de Mount Allison. La biologiste Vett Lloyd a indiqué que les tiques à pattes noires capturées montrent des taux d’infection étonnamment rares et élevés. Mme Lloyd soutient qu’environ 40% de ces tiques, qui…
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Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse
ByCanLyme Team December 1, 2012April 21, 2023
La Presse Canadienne Fredericton Le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme est en hausse au Nouveau-Brunswick, selon des chercheurs de l’Université de Mount Allison. La biologiste Vett Lloyd a indiqué que les tiques à pattes noires capturées montrent des taux d’infection étonnamment rares et élevés. Mme Lloyd soutient qu’environ 40% de ces tiques, qui…
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Medical Publications | Research
Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.
ByCanLyme Team November 27, 2012April 21, 2023
Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Dec; 18(12): 1951-7. Abstract Human babesiosis is an increasing health concern in the northeastern United States, where the causal agent, Babesia microti, is spread through the bite of infected Ixodes scapularis ticks. We sampled 10 mammal and 4 bird species within…
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Medical Publications | Research
Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.
ByCanLyme Team November 27, 2012April 21, 2023
J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M. Source Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Abstract Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) has revolutionized the management of right ventricular outflow tract dysfunction after repaired congenital heart disease. The technology is considered to be safe, with a…
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Medical Publications | Research
Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods
ByCanLyme Team November 27, 2012April 21, 2023
Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich NG and Rich SM Citation: J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012(Nov) Location: Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03009-12 Abstract Ability to detect heterogeneity of ospC genotypes of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in the tick vector…
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Medical Publications | Research
Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States
ByCanLyme Team November 18, 2012April 21, 2023
Abstract All reported cases of WA1 babesiosis have occurred in the Pacific coast region of the United States, suggesting that WA1 is limited to this geographic area. However, we detected WA1 IgG in 27% of clinical sera sent to our laboratory for WA1 IgG testing from across the United States over a 2-year period, suggesting…
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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

Prevent Lyme Disease with Showers and Fences [Yale study]

Off-the-Charts Anxiety: Is a Tick Bite Making You Nuts?

Biofilms: A New Hideout for Borrelia burgdorferi?

Evaluation of in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility of different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi

There will likely never be a Lyme vaccine says researcher Alan Barbour.

Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health

Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii

Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia

Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.

Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse

Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse

Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.

Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.

Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods

Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States

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