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[CanLyme Note: The Canadian medical community is absolutely under-informed on tick-borne disease. Medical leadership in Canada, managed by non-medical (PHAC), medically... View Article
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[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence of... View Article
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Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Norris DE. The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology,... View Article
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