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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
The Scientist: The Search for Persisters
It starts with a tick bite. This may be followed by the characteristic bullseye rash. And then the other…
Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses
Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders…
Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.
Published online Aug. 6th, 2015 ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is the world’s leading tick borne infection caused by the…
Entomological Society of America Issues Statement on Tick-borne Diseases
[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence…
Fox News: Richard Gere Among Celebrities Who Have Battled Lyme Disease
[CanLyme note: They forgot Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, and others including professional golfers and baseball players.] Lyme…
Persister Development by B. burgdorferi Populations In Vitro
[CanLyme note: The researchers acknowledge in their paper that their findings are limited to doxycycline, alone, at their prescribed dosages.…
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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Illuminating the roles of the Borrelia burgdorferi adhesins
The Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato), must cause persistent, disseminated infection to be maintained in the natural enzootic cycle.…
National Post: Deadly tick-borne Powassan virus surfaces in New York state, kills 30% of those infected
A Saratoga County resident is recovering from a rare but emerging illness carried by deer ticks that transmit Lyme…
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada: Tick tests positive in Sudbury for Lyme disease bacteria
The Sudbury & District Health Unit is urging people to take precautions to prevent against tick bites after a…
CTV news Winnipeg: More ticks that carry Lyme disease being found in Manitoba
Manitoba has seen an increase in Lyme disease in recent years with 16 confirmed or probable cases in 2012,…
Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: Canada – Ticks
Lyme borreliosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Bartonella, tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative…
Global TV News – Ticks carrying Lyme on the rise
Fri, Jul 26: Black-legged ticks are crawling into parts of Ontario. Marianne Dimain reports Watch Global News story
Worker links motor neuron disease to work-related Lyme disease – awarded compensation
https://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=533354603 In New York, a worker bears the burden of presenting competent medical evidence establishing a causal relationship between…
Black-legged ticks linked to encephalitis in New York state
IMAGE:This image shows tick surveying with a drag cloth. Click here for more information. Researchers urge citizens and…
Pathogenic analysis of Borrelia garinii strain SZ isolated from northeastern China
BACKGROUND: Various genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) have been identified from patients and animals worldwide. Genospecies-related dissemination…