Research
CanLyme is dedicated to promoting advancements in Lyme disease research. More research is needed to accurately diagnose and treat Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, and CanLyme supports this. CanLyme’s Venture Grants policy for academic researchers can be found here.
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…
Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many…
Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North
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Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor
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Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States
Chris D. Crowder, Heather E. Carolan, Megan A. Rounds, Vaclav…
Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada
J Veter Sci MedAugust 2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 August…
Spotted fever group rickettsiae in multiple hard tick species from Fairfax County, Virginia.
Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Norris DE.…
Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia
Maria-Jesus Sanz, Connie H. Y. Wong, Pierre-Olivier Hardy, Aydan Salman-Dilgimen,…
A seroepidemiologic study of human infections with spotted fever group rickettsiae in North Carolina
Meagan F. Vaughn et al, September 2014, doi:10.1128/JCM.01733-14 ABSTRACT Increasing…
Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California
Natalia Fedorova, Joyce E. Kleinjan, David James, Lucia T. Hui,…
United States: Lyme Victory as Bill passes US House of Representatives
[CanLyme note: Congratulations to to the US House of Representatives…
First detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA in king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus halli).
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Available online 20 August 2014. Abstract The…