Welcome to the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
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
Steroid Use Questioned for Common Lyme Disease Manifestation
[CanLyme Note: Facial palsy, Bell’s Palsy, is not as common in Lyme patients as reported. It is easily recognized making…
CanLyme director responds to Canadian Medical Association Journal article
Response to Doctors Gregson and Quach Robert G. Murray, DDS, Director, CanLyme Re: “The Lyme law” Zubek, 187:520-521doi:10.1503/cmaj.115-0029 The…
Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska
Alaska Dispatch News Monday, August 29th, 2016 While Alaskans have long endured dense mosquitoes and frigid air, we’ve always had…
Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle
[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins…
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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Fact sheet
Fact sheet Who: Founded by Jim Wilson in 2003, CanLyme is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the Canadian public…
Metagenomic Profile of the Bacterial Communities Associated with Ixodes ricinus Ticks.
Carpi G, Cagnacci F, Wittekindt NE, Zhao F, Qi J, Tomsho LP, Drautz DI, Rizzoli A, Schuster SC PLoS…
Human to human transmission of tick-borne disease
Nosocomial Transmission of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in China Zhang L, Liu Y, Ni D, Li Q, Yu Y, Yu…
5-year follow-up study of patients with neuroborreliosis.
Berglund J, Stjernberg L, Ornstein K, Tykesson-Joelsson K, Walter H. Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden. johan [dot] berglund [at] ltblekinge [dot] se…
Study supports chronic Lyme
Protective Niche for Borrelia burgdorferi to Evade Humoral Immunity Am J Pathol. 2004 Sep;165(3):977-8 Fang Ting Liang*, Eric L.…
How the Neutrophil Both Kills and Protects the Lyme Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi
Ruth Montgomery, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist S-413, The Anlyan Center Phone: 203-785-7039 Fax: 203-785-7053 e-mail: ruth [dot] montgomery [at] yale [dot] edu Research Activities My…
Experts identify molecular players in tick-borne illness
This article was brought to you via eLibrary from ProQuest Information and Learning.https://elibrary.bigchalk.com Virginia Commonwealth University; Experts identify molecular…
The Klempner Article
If corporations want a profit-saving research result they will design the research and find the fool to do it…
Insurers hit on Lyme disease
By BRIDGET SCRIMENTI, Sun Staff (https://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3119437#) Alan Stone of Chelmsford, who suffers from Lyme disease along with his daughter…