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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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Recent dispatches
DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI
You might assume a patient infected with Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, to present with a relapsing fever.…
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold
Feb. 23, 2017 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press They’re already back. All it took was an unusual February warm…
Anti-science old guard taking last dying breaths of continuing to misinform physicians using tax payer dollars
Here is their opinion article title, amazing in 2017 how poorly they reference their evidence… “False and Misleading Information…
Lyme sufferers devastated by federal government’s action plan
Richmond Hill Liberal, February 22, 2017 When Shari Allen first went public with her battle with Lyme disease, she was…
Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
Scott et al. Received: 2016.09.29; Accepted: 2016.12.28; Published: 2017.02.08 Abstract We document the presence of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis,…
Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codes
News provided by Global Network on Institutional Discrimination Feb 08, 2017, 10:04 ET VERO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8, 2017…
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 sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment
Robert Mangelsdorf – Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness…
A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by…
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1).…
Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information…
Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration
Abstract: The geographic distributions of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme…
MyD88- and TRIF-independent induction of type I interferon drives naive B cell accumulation but not loss of lymph node architecture in Lyme disease.
Hastey CJ, Ochoa J, Olsen KJ, Barthold SW, Baumgarth N. Abstract Rapidly after infection, live Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative…
The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North…
Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance
Yancey Caroline B., Hegarty Barbara C., Qurollo Barbara A., Levy Michael G., Birkenheuer Adam J., Weber David J., Diniz…
Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions
Giovanni Matera, et al NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, 37, 393-397, 2014 Late/chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) represents a challenging entity whose diagnosis…