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.
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Transovarial transmission of Borrelia spirochetes by Ixodes scapularis: A summary of the literature and recent observations.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2012 Dec 10. pii: S1877-959X(12)00067-2. doi:…
Complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi: Structure, function and regulation of gene expression.
Kraiczy P, Stevenson B. Source Institute of Medical Microbiology and…
High-Throughput Screening Identifies Three Inhibitor Classes of the Telomere Resolvase from the Lyme Disease Spirochete
Abstract Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne zoonosis in North…