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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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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
Response to Canadian Medical Association Journal Lyme practice scenario
Re: Decisions; A 35-year-old man with a positive Lyme test result from a private laboratory Debra L. Fraleigh, Co-founder…
Identification of Additional Anti-Persister Activity against Borrelia burgdorferi from an FDA Drug Library
Sept, 2015 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205,…
United States : Lyme Disease Association Offers Lyme Conference Scholarships for Medical Students
WALL, N.J., Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) announces availability of scholarships for its annual…
Canada: President’s Newsbrief – Ontario College of Family Physicians
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme is pleased to see the Ontario of College of Family Physicians is raising awareness about Lyme…
United Kingdom: Phil Wilson MP: Spreading the word about Lyme [now a pandemic globally]
Tuesday – 15 September 2015 AS an MP, I am continuously learning. Every week constituents come to me with…
Consumer Reports: Tick danger in autumn (also effective and safe tick repellents)
Sept 13th, 2015 CONSUMER REPORTS – You may think your risk of getting Lyme disease ends when the weather…
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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Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection.
Hue F, Ghalyanchi Langeroudi A, Barbour AG.Genome Announcements. 2013 Sep 12;1(5). pii: e00713-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00713-13 Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a…
New Hope for Sufferers of Chronic Disease [is questioned] – Global TV Vancouver
For those within the Chronic Disease Syndrome/ME and fibromyalgia community there was some relief expressed in that finally their…
An excellent article… a must read from Lil Anderson in the Lake of the Woods Area News, Western Ontario, Canada
Lyme disease: A growing concern Story and photos by Lil Anderson [Special thanks to Lake of the Woods Area…
Huffington Post series on Lyme Disease: The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks
Part 10 in series on the Global Lyme Disease Discussion Borrelia burgdorferi cultivated from the brains of patients…
ILADS 15th Annual Lyme Disease Conference – North America
Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference Objective To provide physicians and other medical practitioners with insight into recent…
Think You’re Allergic to Penicillin? You Might Think Again
Jeffrey Kopman Published: Sep 10, 2013, 11:46 AM EDT weather.com A late-summer hike results in tired legs, a sweaty…
Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic
By Pamela Fayerman Dr. Lucy Kinninmonth has been to about 20 different medical specialists in the past year, all…
In Vivo Expression Technology Identifies a Novel Virulence Factor
Authors: Ellis TC, Jain S, Linowski AK, Rike K, Bestor A, Rosa PA, Halpern M, Kurhanewicz S, Jewett MW…
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA,…