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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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Recent dispatches
The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North…
Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance
Yancey Caroline B., Hegarty Barbara C., Qurollo Barbara A., Levy Michael G., Birkenheuer Adam J., Weber David J., Diniz…
Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions
Giovanni Matera, et al NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, 37, 393-397, 2014 Late/chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) represents a challenging entity whose diagnosis…
A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way…
Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite…
Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related…
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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Gayle’s Story
At this point I have no headaches, numbness, dizziness, my memory is back to normal, no stuttering and I…
Mable’s Story
I began to remember the bug bite and ‘sand’ incident and realized that the ‘sand’ must have been a…
Les’ Story
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Harriet’s Story
I would forget something I had done only a few minutes before. My speech was slurred, and it was…
Jim A.’s Story
I was a little concerned as I had heard horror stories about Lyme but [my doctor] reassured me that…
Important testing precautions
Time and again, we hear stories from Lyme victims who reported a rash to their doctor (and in some…
Tick removal
Even better than tick removal is to AVOID allowing ticks to attach in the first place. Wearing long pants…
Lyme basics
Lyme disease (often misspelled as “Lime” or “Lymes”) is an inflammatory infection that spreads to humans through tick bites.
Coping with Lyme disease
Living with Lyme disease can be a painful and frustrating experience. Many Lyme victims are misdiagnosed, and too often…