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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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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)…
UC Berkeley: Study IDs key birds that host Lyme disease bacteria in California
[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was…
Development of droplet digital PCR for the detection of Babesia microti and Babesia duncani
doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2014.12.003 Abstract Babesia spp. are obligate protozoan parasites of red blood cells. Transmission to humans occurs through bites from…
CDC Warns of New Deadly Tick Borne Bourbon Virus Found in Kansas
February 21st, 2015 New Deadly Tick Borne Bourbon Virus Found in Kansas, man fell ill and died after becoming…
New York: Senator Sue Serino named as chair of Tick-Borne Disease task force
Feb 20th, 2015 Alan Fanitzi, Poughkeepsie Journal New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos named Senator Sue…
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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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…
Investigation of the genes involved in antigenic switching at the vlsE locus in Borrelia burgdorferi: an essential role for the RuvAB branch migrase.
Persistent infection by pathogenic organisms requires effective strategies for the defense of these organisms against the host immune response.
An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells
Here we investigate the dynamics of the hepatic intravascular immune response to a pathogen relevant to invariant natural killer…
Detection of Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, including three novel genotypes in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from songbirds (Passeriformes) across Canada
The source of sporadic Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) across Canada has been a mystery. Several tenets abound about the…
Widespread dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada.
Scott JD, Anderson JF, Durden LA J Parasitol 2011 08 24 Abstract Millions of Lyme disease vector ticks are…