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.
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.…
Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.
J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG,…
Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods
Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich…