Vett Lloyd, PhD
Sackville, New Brunswick
Dr. Vett Lloyd is a professor of Biology at Mount Allison University working on ticks and the pathogens they transmit.
Dr. Lloyd is the co-founder of the Canadian Lyme Science Alliance, an organization that aims to unite scientists, clinicians, and patients in the quest for a more comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease.
She is also the founding member of the Canadian Lyme Consortium and the Mount Allison Lyme Disease Network, interdisciplinary networks of researchers tackling the biological, social and human dimensions of Lyme disease and incorporating the Lyme patient community as full partners in this endeavor.
She has a special interest in encouraging community and citizen science in tick surveillance activities as a way to help “tick proof” communities.
More about Dr. Lloyd’s publications.
CanLyme news
Evidence of in vivo existence of Borrelia biofilm in borrelial lymphocytomas
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1556/1886.2015.00049 Abstract Lyme borreliosis, caused by the spirochete Borrelia…
Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada: Ticks in area woods already – near Kelowna
[Canlyme Note: Where there is one tick that you see, there…
Eradication of Biofilm-Like Microcolony Structures of Borrelia burgdorferi by Daunomycin and Daptomycin but not Mitomycin C in Combination with Doxycycline and Cefuroxime
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public…