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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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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Recent dispatches
Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/ Doxycycline/Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing
Front. Microbiol., 04 November 2016 | https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01744 Abstract Although the majority of Lyme disease patients can be cured, at…
Established Population of Blacklegged Ticks with High Infection Prevalence for the Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, on Corkscrew Island, Kenora District, Ontario
2016; 13(11): 881-891. doi: 10.7150/ijms.16922 Abstract We document an established population of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, on Corkscrew Island,…
Conférence pour élaborer un cadre fédéral relatif à la maladie de lyme du 15 au 17 mai 2016 : Rapport sommaire de la conférence
Le présent rapport a été préparé à titre informatif uniquement. Il vise à fournir un aperçu des messages clés…
Conférence pour élaborer un cadre fédéral relatif à la maladie de lyme du 15 au 17 mai 2016 : Rapport sommaire de la conférence
Le présent rapport a été préparé à titre informatif uniquement. Il vise à fournir un aperçu des messages clés…
Dr. Nevena Zubcevik of the Harvard Medical School dispels some long held, over published myths about Lyme disease
Dispelling myths … “Dr. Nevena Zubcevik of the Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Dean Center for Tick-Borne…
Canada’s national Lyme disease conference summary now available.
As a result of Elizabeth May’s private member’s Bill, (Bill 442), a federally funded national Lyme disease conference bringing…
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 on the rise according to experts
August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM | Last updated: August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM Every year, hundreds of Canadians are diagnosed with…
Ticks may transmit disease faster than currently thought
BY SHEREEN LEHMAN Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brazilian ticks that carry Rocky…
Lyme disease growing increasingly common in Quebec
Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged…
Cases of poorly understood Lyme disease continue to grow in Alberta
BY DAVE DORMER ,CALGARY SUN August 16, 2014 While it has yet to establish a real foothold in Alberta,…
High-throughput screening of tick-borne pathogens in Europe
Lorraine Michelet; Sabine Delannoy; Elodie Devillers; Gérald Umhang; Anna Aspan; Mikael Juremalm; Jan Chirico; Fimme J. van der Wal;…
Listen to Voice America talk radio Family Caregivers Unite – Lyme disease
Informing Family Caregivers about Vector-Borne Illnesses such as Lyme borreliosis. CanLyme founder and president Jim Wilson and G.Magnotta Foundation…
Human Infections with Borrelia miyamotoi, Japan
[CanLyme note: Public Health Agency of Canada researchers have reported finding Borrelia miyamotoi in ticks Canada wide. In Canada we have…
Vancouver, BC, Canada: Parting words – and hospital criticism – as Dr. Alison Bested leaves B.C., returns to Ontario
Her silence over her controversial departure from BC Women’s Hospital has been deafening. Alas, it didn’t last forever as Dr. Alison…
Niagara Region, Canada: Two ticks tested by Region positive for Lyme
By Rob Houle Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:43:30 EDT PM Niagara Region doesn’t take chances when it comes to ticks.…