So you’ve been bitten by a tick. Here’s why you’ll have to pay a private lab to test it for pathogens
Canadian public health units no longer test ticks on behalf of patients, CanLyme survey finds.
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Patient Lyme disease websites prioritize science; public health websites prioritize consistent messaging–Comment on ‘Lyme disease prevention: A content analysis of Canadian patient group and government websites’
Dear Editor, A recent article ‘Lyme disease prevention: A content analysis of Canadian patient group and government websites’ by Journault et al. (2020) in Zoonoses and Public Health describes content analysis of three public health and three patient group Lyme disease websites with respect to information on prevention of infection. The (relatively few) divergent items…
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Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature
Nov. 1, 2018 A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of their disease stage respond to several microbes. As a consequence, the authors have demonstrated that microbial infections in individuals suffering from Lyme disease do not follow the “one microbe, one disease” status-quo. Moreover, the probability that…
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The cost of Lyme borreliosis.
Eur J Public Health. 2017 Jun 1;27(3):538-547. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw269. Abstract BACKGROUND: Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most frequently reported tick-borne infection in Europe and North America. The aim of this study was to estimate the cost-of-illness of LB in the Netherlands. We used available incidence estimates from 2010 for tick bite consultations and three symptomatic LB outcomes:…