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Canada take notice: Antibiotics should be considered early for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) in endemic areas even if classic findings are absent
Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Jun 1;60(11):1659-66. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ116. Epub 2015 Feb 19. Risk factors for fatal outcome from rocky…
Clinical Presentation, Convalescence, and Relapse of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs Experimentally Infected via Tick Bite
Abstract Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a tick-borne disease caused by R. rickettsii in North and South America.…
Case report: Co-infection of Rickettsia rickettsii and Streptococcus pyogenes: is fatal Rocky Mountain spotted fever underdiagnosed?
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Dec;91(6):1154-5. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0437. Epub 2014 Oct 20. Raczniak GA1, Kato C2, Chung IH2,…
Association of Lyme Disease and Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type: Is it Inflammation Mediated?
Mattingley DW1, Koola MM2. Author information 1Doctor of Medicine Program, Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Dutch Caribbean, Netherlands…
CTV Winnipeg: Lyme disease cases on the rise in Manitoba
Cheryl Holmes, CTV Winnipeg Published Friday, May 15, 2015 4:05PM CST It’s tick season in Manitoba and while many…
CHBC Global TV Okanagan: Two young men are on a cross country bike tour…
Two wonderful young men are on a cross country bike tour because their friend, Adelaine, was felled by Lyme…
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Complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi: Structure, function and regulation of gene expression.
Kraiczy P, Stevenson B. Source Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Frankfurt University Hospital, Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 40, D-60596 Frankfurt,…
High-Throughput Screening Identifies Three Inhibitor Classes of the Telomere Resolvase from the Lyme Disease Spirochete
Abstract Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne zoonosis in North America, is caused by the spirochetal pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi.…
Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules.
Mol Microbiol. 2012 Dec;86(5):1116-31. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12045. Epub 2012 Oct 24. Moriarty TJ, Shi M, Lin YP, Ebady R, Zhou…
Analysis of an Ordered, Comprehensive STM Mutant Library in Infectious Borrelia burgdorferi: Insights into the Genes Required for Mouse Infectivity.
PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e47532. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047532. Epub 2012 Oct 25. Lin T, Gao L, Zhang C, Odeh E, Jacobs MB,…
CSM murray award lecture – functional studies of the Lyme disease spirochete – from molecules to mice.
Abstract Lyme borreliosis, also known as Lyme disease, is now the most common vector transmitted disease in the northern…
Acute polyradiculoneuritis syndrome: clinical observations and differential diagnosis [important to rule out Lyme disease].
Authors: Supanc V, Stojić I, Vargek-Solter V, Breitenfeld T, Roje-Bedeković M and Demarin V Citation: Acta Clin Croat 2012(Jun);…
First isolation of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, from blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, removed from a bird in nova Scotia, Canada.
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been isolated from a blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, removed from a songbird…
Birds disperse ixodid (Acari: Ixodidae) and Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks in Canada
Scott JD, Fernando K, Banerjee SN, Durden LA, Byrne SK, Banerjee M, Mann RB, Morshed MG. Source Lyme Disease…
Migratory songbirds disperse ticks across Canada, and first isolation of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, from the avian tick, Ixodes auritulus.
Abstract During a 3-yr comprehensive study, 196 ixodid ticks (9 species) were collected from 89 passerine birds (32 species)…