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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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Recent dispatches
Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada
Abstract Ticks transport and transmit microbial pathogens that inflict malevolent diseases on domestic and wildlife animals, and humans. We…
French subtitled screening of The Quiet Epidemic now available worldwide
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation is proud to announce that The Quiet Epidemic is now available with French subtitles.
Complete Remission in Paralytic Late Tick-Borne Neurological Disease Comprising Mixed Involvement of Borrelia, Babesia, Anaplasma, and Bartonella: Use of Long-Term Treatments with Antibiotics and Antiparasitics in a Series of 10 Cases
Abstract This study aimed to demonstrate that severe neurological motor deficits in the context of late tick-borne disease with…
Join CanLyme for a live Q&A panel discussion
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and you are invited to join CanLyme in the second part of The…
Sarah Cormode joins host David Webb on Explore Magazine’s Live the Adventure Podcast
Sarah and David want listeners to continue exploring in nature and stay safe in the outdoors.
Come and join with CanLyme in the screening of “The Quiet Epidemic”
May 18th, 2023 May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and CanLyme is hosting an on-demand screening of the critically…
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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CTV News Atlantic: Mother struggles to get adequate help within the Canadian health care system for her young daughter who has Lyme.
Sadly this lack of help for adequate Lyme disease treatment is a Canada-wide problem due in large part to…
UoGuelph’s G Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab receives $1.2M for research
May, 2022 “With more ticks and tick bites occurring in Canada year after year, better diagnosis of Lyme disease…
Hotdocs film festival screens “The Quiet Epidemic” on Lyme disease
Watch this new trailer on Lyme disease being screened this week at the Hotdocs Festival in Toronto. “Lyme Disease…
The Platelet Fraction is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood
Abstract Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct…
Capture Sequencing Enables Sensitive Detection of Tick-Borne Agents in Human Blood
March 7, 2022 Abstract Assay sensitivity can be a limiting factor in the use of PCR as a tool…
Two-tier testing no better than a flip of a coin: Molecular Microbiological and Immune Characterization of a Cohort of Patients Diagnosed with Early Lyme Disease
ABSTRACT Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. Current diagnosis of early Lyme disease…
An Atypical Presentation of a Severe Case of Anaplasma Phagocytophilum
March 2022 Abstract We report a case of a 79-year-old male presenting to a South Bronx hospital with complaints…
Neuropathogenicity of non-viable Borrelia burgdorferi ex vivo
[CanLyme Note: We disagree that “appropriate treatment” has been established for borreliosis. Also, this study involved deceased monkeys and is…
Neuropathogenicity of non-viable Borrelia burgdorferi ex vivo
January 2022 Abstract Even after appropriate treatment, a proportion of Lyme disease patients suffer from a constellation of symptoms,…