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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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CDC Says Misperceptions Keep Kids from Getting Lifesaving Treatment for Tickborne Diseases
Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 March 2015 07:04 Short-term doxycycline use does not stain kids’ teeth, CDC/IHS study finds March…
Long road leads to Lyme for Ladner woman
Elaine Crossley finally gets proper diagnosis, but the battle is far from over It seemed innocent enough. In March…
Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis Requiring Tracheostomy Due to Neuroborreliosis
Carlos D. Martínez-Balzano, MD; Bruce Greenberg, MD, MBA Neuroborreliosis can cause multiple cranial and peripheral neuropathies; however, involvement of…
Teenager with stroke-like symptoms had Lyme: Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis With Transient Hemiparesis and Aphasia
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.01.011 February 25, 2015 Nervous system involvement in Lyme disease often mimics other conditions and thus represents a…
Maine looks to join growing list of states protecting doctors from their own licencing boards via legislation
BY JOE LAWLOR Press Herald Mar 2nd, 2015 A bill would prevent the state medical board from punishing a…
Borrelia miyamotoi infection in Nature and in humans
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia group spirochete that is transmitted by the same hard-bodied (ixodid)…
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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Lyme disease becoming more prevalent in Alberta
Experts say it’s because of increased precipitation during summer Albertans normally don’t have to worry about ticks that carry…
Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection.
“Our studies do however offer proof of the principle that intact spirochetes can persist in an incidental host comparable…
Vector competence of the tick Ixodes ricinus for transmission of Bartonella birtlesii
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011;5(5):e1186. Epub 2011 May 31. Reis C, Cote M, Le Rhun D, Lecuelle B, Levin…
Whatever happened to the Lyme disease vaccine?
Steere not only helped discover Lyme disease in 1977 in the small town of Lyme, Conn., the rheumatologist has…
Tiny things, big problems
Many months and numerous doctor visits later, she finally had the answer: Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is…
Borrelia Burgdorferi Evades the Effects of Ceftriaxone Treatment in a Mouse Model of Lyme Borreliosis
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a tick-borne infectious disease with variable symptoms. The most common manifestation of LB is an…
Lyme borreliosis in Canada: biological diversity and diagnostic complexity from an entomological perspective
Lyme borreliosis (LB), also known as Lyme disease, is emerging as a serious tick- borne illness across Canada. More…
Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host
Pathogenic spirochetes are bacteria that cause a number of emerging and re-emerging diseases worldwide, including syphilis, leptospirosis, relapsing fever,…
HrpA, a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase, Is Involved in Global Gene Regulation in the Lyme Disease Spirochete
Spirochetes causing Lyme borreliosis are obligate parasites that can only be found in a tick vector or a vertebrate…