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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
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…
CanLyme makes ‘Dear Abby’ newspaper column… thank you Lyn D.
Dear Abby: Speedy diagnosis essential for treatment of Lyme disease To be published in newspapers May 1st in Canada…
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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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…
Analysis of an Ordered, Comprehensive STM Mutant Library in Infectious Borrelia burgdorferi: Insights into the Genes Required for Mouse Infectivity
Tao Lin1*, Lihui Gao1, Chuhua Zhang1, Evelyn Odeh1, Mary B. Jacobs3, Loïc Coutte1¤, George Chaconas4, Mario T. Philipp3, Steven…
Spirochetal ‘debris’ versus persistent infection in chronic Lyme disease: from semantics to science.
Lyme disease is a highly controversial illness that features two opposing camps [1–4]. One camp espouses the viewpoint of…
Lyme disease test kits and limitations
Health Canada : “Lyme disease test kits are class II (IV being the highest risk class) in vitro diagnostic…
Spatial stratification of various Lyme disease spirochetes in a Central European site.
Related Articles Spatial stratification of various Lyme disease spirochetes in a Central European site. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2012 Oct…