Welcome to the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was created to promote a more complete and comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease and related illnesses through research, education and advocacy to help reduce misdiagnosis and improve treatments for Lyme disease.
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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
Australia: Hope for Lyme sufferers with ‘groundbreaking’ pilot study
[CanLyme Note: Once again, it is the patients, true ethical scientists, and clinicians doing what the governments have refused…
Prominent New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist calls Lyme disease a human rights concern.
Mar 22, 2018 Dr. Frid is a New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist who specializes in infection-induced autoimmune…
Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»
March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment…
Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR
Melanie K. B. Wills, Andrea M. Kirby, Vett K. Lloyd Department of Biology, Mount Allison University J. Vis. Exp. (132), e56471,…
Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change
Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 695-706 David J Lieske, Vett K. Lloyd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.01.018 Abstract Ixodes scapularis, a known vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu…
Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance-A Canadian Case Study.
Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 22; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010022 Julie Lewis, Corinne R. Boudreau, James W. Patterson, Jonathan Bradet-Legris, Vett K. Lloyd Abstract Lyme disease…
Where there are ticks, there’s often Lyme disease
Lyme disease is caused by an infection that is most often transmitted by ticks, but it can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
Ticks can attach to your body without being seen or felt, and diagnosis can be difficult due to symptom presentation, testing protocols and other challenges.
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Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec
[CanLyme note: We invite your review of the below article (free PDF of study can be accessed in the…
Chatelaine Magazine: Lyme disease is on the rise – should you be worried?
July 29th, 2015 More than 600 cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada in 2013 – a number…
USA CDC : Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, Present, and Future
[CanLyme note: The argument to market a vaccine anytime soon is weak. Until many eyes have had a chance…
VIDEO – CBC Friends raise money to help treat woman with Lyme disease
Friends of Carolyn MacIntyre, a Perth-area woman with Lyme disease, are raising money to pay for her ongoing care…
Unravelling the mystery of Lyme disease: Why Canada needs to do more
Rian Michelsen is a rising star. Fifteen years ago, he was the toddler who burst out from behind the…
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected Ixodes ricinus collected from vegetation near the Arctic Circle
July 2015 Abstract This is the first study to determine the density of questing Ixodes ricinus in northern Norway.…
Lyme disease may cause psychiatric problems
July 24th, 2015 Daniel Calder St. Petersburg Mental Health Examiner Perhaps the most devastating symptoms produced by Lyme disease infection occur…
Biofilm formation by Borrelia sensu lato
Arun Timmaraju, Priyanka A.S. Theophilus, Kunthavai Balasubramanian, Shafiq Shakih, David F. Leucke, and Eva Sapi FEMS Microbiology Letters, online…
Intestinal Pseudoobstruction Caused by Chronic Lyme Neuroborreliosis. A Case Report
July 25, 2015 By David F Schefte and Tyge Nordentoft Abstract Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction is often classified as idiopathic.…