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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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Recent dispatches
Cyclist riding across country to raise awareness of lyme disease
by Kendra Wong – Victoria New posted May 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM Two Ontario cyclists will be starting their…
Video, Penticton, BC – City declares May Lyme Disease awareness month and, mayor and council take the Lyme Sucks Challenge
Council proclaims May as Lyme awareness month, and, “Council sucks limes” for Lyme. For the video of the meeting…
Historic evidence to support a causal relationship between spirochetal infections and Alzheimer’s disease
Front Aging Neurosci. 2015; 7: 46. Published online 2015 Apr 16. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00046 Judith Miklossy Abstract Following previous observations…
Future looks brighter for Lyme disease care
May 3rd, 2015 Poughkeepsie Journal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their estimates for the number of…
Experts worry tick population has increased after harsh winter in the Maritimes
By Brion Robinson, Global News May 2, 2015 RIVERVIEW, N.B. – A veterinarian at the Riverview Animal Hospital says…
Global TV: Tick threat in Winnipeg on the rise
By Lauren McNabb Senior Reporter/Anchor Global News – May 1st, 2015 WINNIPEG – At this time of year they could be…
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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Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules
Summary Systemic dissemination of microbial pathogens permits microbes to spread from the initial site of infection to secondary target…
Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsii
Paul F. Policastro,* Sandra J. Raffel, and Tom G. Schwan Medical Entomology Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain…
Is multiple sclerosis (MS) a symptom of Lyme disease?
…. and why is there no current ongoing aggressive human pathology being done in Canada specific to looking for…
Bartonella spp. Bacteremia and Rheumatic Symptoms in Patients from Lyme Disease–endemic Region
In Response: We offer the following comments to Beard et al. (1) and Raoult (2) regarding their respective responses…
Job posting for physicians – Vancouver, BC
Physicians – Complex Chronic Medicine Complex Chronic Diseases Program (CCDP) BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre UBC Faculty of…
Santé Canada – Trousses d’analyse pour la maladie de Lyme et limites
Points clés •Les résultats d’analyses sérologiques sont un supplément au diagnostic clinique de la maladie de Lyme et ne…
Santé Canada – Trousses d’analyse pour la maladie de Lyme et limites
Points clés •Les résultats d’analyses sérologiques sont un supplément au diagnostic clinique de la maladie de Lyme et ne…
Large differences between test strategies for the detection of anti-Borrelia antibodies are revealed by comparing eight ELISAs and five immunoblots.
Ang CW, Notermans DW, Hommes M, Simoons-Smit AM, Herremans T. Source VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. w [dot] ang [at]…
Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi in Vitro
Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming…