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.
Evolving Perspectives on Lyme Borreliosis in Canada
Abstract: With cases now documented in every province, Lyme borreliosis…
Plaques of Alzheimer’s disease originate from cysts of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete
Summary Here is hypothesized a truly revolutionary notion that rounded…
Prevent Lyme Disease with Showers and Fences [Yale study]
Infection can cause complications if not treat early, but research…
Off-the-Charts Anxiety: Is a Tick Bite Making You Nuts?
Tick-borne infections aren’t just causing sore joints and swollen knees.…
Biofilms: A New Hideout for Borrelia burgdorferi?
The University of New Haven established a Lyme Disease Research…
Evaluation of in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility of different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi
Background: Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness caused by the…
There will likely never be a Lyme vaccine says researcher Alan Barbour.
Why some strains of Lyme disease bacteria are common and…
Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health
Summary Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex is a diverse…
Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii
Gabriele Margos,a,* Andrias Hojgaard,b Robert S. Lane,c Muriel Cornet,d Volker…
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and…
Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.
Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek…
Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.
Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F.…