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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
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…
Hopkins Physician Says Lyme Disease Patients Create Conspiracy Theories About Their Illnesses
Hopkins physician Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, has told the Allentown Morning Call that Lyme patients invent ideas about what…
THE JOHNS HOPKINS LYME DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER OPENS
The Lyme Disease Research Foundation is pleased to announce the April 2015 opening of The Lyme Disease Clinical Research…
Costco Connection magazine: Beware the tick, ‘Targeting Lyme disease’
Staying informed can be your best . By Jane Doucet WITH THE WARM weather arriving, many Canadians will be…
Researchers Discover Never-Before-Seen Tickborne Disease
April 27th, 2015 Tickborne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks carry and transmit a…
Vancouver, BC: Lyme disease sufferers ticked off with Vancouver clinic that was supposed to help them
BY DAN FUMANO, THE PROVINCE APRIL 22, 2015 In 2013, a clinic heralded as the first of its kind…
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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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…
Goldhawk Fights Back am740 Zoomers radio – October 17th, 2012- Lyme
Lyme disease was the very hot topic on today’s popular Dale Goldhawk radio show “Goldhawk Fights Back” on Am…
A Novel Iron- and Copper-Binding Protein in the Lyme Disease Spirochete.
Related Articles A Novel Iron- and Copper-Binding Protein in the Lyme Disease Spirochete. Mol Microbiol. 2012 Oct 15; Authors:…
1993, Calgary Herald newspaper … Lyme disease victims tell their story
Lyme disease is not new to Canada, it has been around for centuries. The finding that the Iceman, a 5000…
Diastolic Heart Murmur, Nocturnal Back Pain, and Lumbar Rigidity in a 7-Year Girl: An Unusual Manifestation of Lyme Disease in Childhood
Case Reports in Pediatrics Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 976961, 3 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/976961 Case Report Diastolic Heart Murmur, Nocturnal Back…
Evolving Perspectives on Lyme Borreliosis in Canada
J.L.H. Sperling1,2, M.J. Middelveen2, D. Klein3, and F.A.H. Sperling*,1 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2Canadian…