Does single dose prophylaxis promoted by Canadian medical authorities work? The answer is no.

A two pill (single dose) prophylactic administration of doxycycline is being offered to Canadians who have a known tick attachment,... View Article

Professional Self-Regulation and the Public Interest in Canada

[CanLyme Note: The Lyme disease disaster for Canadians is an excellent example of how the ‘self-regulating’ medical colleges and medical... View Article

Do Microbes Trigger Alzheimer’s Disease?

[CanLyme Note: Judith Miklossy, PhD, was a founding Board member of CanLyme in 2003 and remained until she moved back... View Article

History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition

Middelveen, et al https://doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S152343 Abstract: Morgellons disease (MD) is a skin condition characterized by the presence of multicolored filaments that lie... View Article

Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease

M. Middelveen, et al. PREPRINT Abstract Introduction: Lyme disease is a tickborne illness that generates controversy among medical providers and researchers.... View Article

Australia: Hope for Lyme sufferers with ‘groundbreaking’ pilot study

[CanLyme Note: Once again, it is the patients, true ethical scientists, and clinicians doing what the governments have refused to... View Article

Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR

Melanie K. B. Wills, Andrea M. Kirby, Vett K. Lloyd Department of Biology, Mount Allison University J. Vis. Exp. (132), e56471, doi:10.3791/56471... View Article

Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change

Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 695-706 David J Lieske, Vett K. Lloyd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.01.018 Abstract Ixodes scapularis, a known vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto... View Article

Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance-A Canadian Case Study.

Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 22; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010022 Julie Lewis, Corinne R. Boudreau, James W. Patterson, Jonathan Bradet-Legris, Vett K. Lloyd Abstract Lyme disease is... View Article

Research tidbit: Lyme disease may directly affect the vagus nerve or the brainstem

World Journal of Cardiology ABSTRACT: AIM: To conduct the first systematic test of the hypothesis that modulation of cardiac vagal... View Article

The Financial Implications of a Well-Hidden and Ignored Chronic Lyme Disease Pandemic

Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 16; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010016 Marcus Davidsson Abstract: 1 million people are predicted to get infected with Lyme disease in the USA... View Article

Canadian Lyme Consortium makes announcement to Lyme community

February 6th, 2018 On behalf of a growing team of scientists, advocates, and clinicians, we wanted to let you know... View Article

Cranial neuropathy and severe pain due to early disseminated Borrelia burgdorferi infection

Published January 23rd, 2018 doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223307 [CanLyme Note: What is sick about this case report is that this man’s health outcome, which should... View Article

An Unusual Cluster of Neuroinvasive Lyme Disease Cases Presenting With Bannwarth Syndrome in the Midwest United States

[CanLyme note: This statement, “Garin-Bujadoux-Bannwarth syndrome (Bannwarth syndrome [BWS]) is an uncommon manifestation of neuroinvasive Lyme disease (LD) caused by infection... View Article

Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011-2014: a cross-sectional study.

CMAJ Open. 2017 Sep 6;5(3):E690-E693. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20170070. Kadkhoda K, et al Abstract BACKGROUND: Hard tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia miyamotoi... View Article

CANADA, CASE REPORT: New-onset Bell palsy and Lyme disease

[Canlyme Note: It is important for physicians to be aware that treatment duration is to be determined by the clinical presentation... View Article

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