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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
How biobanks are revolutionizing medical research – and why Canada needs one for Lyme disease
Lyme disease is a rapidly evolving problem in Canada that won’t just disappear, CanLyme expert warns.
Save the date for the Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference: November 8 and 9
Join other healthcare practitioners for two days of presentations on diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne disease.
Lyme Disease Awareness Month in Canada: Some big wins but major challenges lie ahead
There’s more awareness of tick-borne illnesses and promising research but progress has been slow.
Helping kids stay safe in the outdoors, and at camp
Get our free downloadable camp kit with posters and a campfire song!
The persistent problem of Long Lyme disease
There’s a stubborn lack of significant change in Canada regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is difficult to detect. But a new device could make it almost as easy as taking your temperature
CanLyme’s Dr. Vett Lloyd and Dr. Anna Ignaszak studying tiny biosensor to detect bacteria in patients’ urine.
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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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Borrelia burgdorferi – an excellent backgrounder on Lyme disease for biologists
By the end of the review, you may discover that you have more in common with the bemused Arthur…
Recent snapshot of ticks, pathogens, and mammalian hosts in Southern Ontario and Quebec
Interrogating mammal species richness as a predictor of the number of pathogens in black-legged ticks.
Incremental steps make a difference for Lyme patients in Canada
Acknowledging small wins is important for building momentum.
The science of the global coverage of lichen is a cautionary tale
The history of science is replete with successes and failures, leaps and missteps. The missteps can be instructive to…
Remembering Jim Wilson
It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my dear friend, colleague, and former board director…
In memoriam: Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson was the founder and past president of CanLyme and his work changed countless lives.
Remembering Jim Wilson
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of our founder and past-president, Jim Wilson.
Researchers study ticks in Ottawa where residential zones border woodland areas
32% of the adult and nymph ticks tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Bartonella DNA more common in patients with psychosis
Research also identifies limitations with antibody testing.