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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
Niagara, ON: ‘I want people to know about Lyme disease’
Smithville woman went three years before diagnosis Grimsby Lincoln News by Amanda Moore, May 13th, 2015 SMITHVILLE – Shortly…
Montérégie at epicentre of uptick in Lyme disease in Quebec
KATHERINE WILTON, MONTREAL GAZETTE Published on: May 13, 2015 Hikers heading to the mountains and forests in the Montérégie…
Dr. Ben Boucher discusses Lyme disease on CBC radio
May 8th, 2015 Dr. Ben Boucher is speaking at a Maritime Tick Conference in Moncton about the difficulty in…
Activists call for provincial Lyme disease strategy
May 6th, 2015 Jessica Bell from the Ontario Lyme Alliance and Jeanne Pacey who suffers from Lyme disease, spoke…
How one small bite can change a life
Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist May 10, 2015 Retired anesthesiologist Dr. Martin Rodgers was treated with two days’ worth…
ICI Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme
May 8th, 2015 CBC Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme…
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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Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii
Gabriele Margos,a,* Andrias Hojgaard,b Robert S. Lane,c Muriel Cornet,d Volker Fingerle,e Nataliia Rudenko,f Nicholas Ogden,g David M. Aanensen,h Durland…
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and transmitted by the same hard-body tick species. We report…
Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.
Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek Nadja Mallatová Libor Grubhoffer ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of a…
Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse
La Presse Canadienne Fredericton Le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme est en hausse au Nouveau-Brunswick, selon des…
Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse
La Presse Canadienne Fredericton Le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme est en hausse au Nouveau-Brunswick, selon des…
Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.
Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Dec; 18(12): 1951-7. Abstract Human…
Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.
J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M. Source Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great…
Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods
Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich NG and Rich SM Citation: J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012(Nov)…
Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States
Abstract All reported cases of WA1 babesiosis have occurred in the Pacific coast region of the United States, suggesting…