Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests

Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi@wickedlocal.com Posted Aug. 31, 2015 at 12:30 PM Until... View Article

Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the reservoir... View Article

Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?

Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks On a balmy day in late... View Article

More infected ticks found in Sudbury area

By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star, August 26th, 2015 The city is experiencing a minor rash of Lyme-carrying ticks, any one... View Article

Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research

[CanLyme note: Medical research should be of the highest standard of all research, but in many cases the opposite is true.... View Article

The Scientist: The Search for Persisters

It starts with a tick bite. This may be followed by the characteristic bullseye rash. And then the other symptoms... View Article

Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses

Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders –... View Article

Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.

Published online Aug. 6th, 2015 ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is the world’s leading tick borne infection caused by the spirochete,... View Article

Persister Development by B. burgdorferi Populations In Vitro

[CanLyme note: The researchers acknowledge in their paper that their findings are limited to doxycycline, alone, at their prescribed dosages. The... View Article

Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec

[CanLyme note: We invite your review of the below article (free PDF of study can be accessed in the link... View Article

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected Ixodes ricinus collected from vegetation near the Arctic Circle

July 2015 Abstract This is the first study to determine the density of questing Ixodes ricinus in northern Norway. It... View Article

Biofilm formation by Borrelia sensu lato

Arun Timmaraju, Priyanka A.S. Theophilus, Kunthavai Balasubramanian, Shafiq Shakih, David F. Leucke, and Eva Sapi FEMS Microbiology Letters, online first,... View Article

Intestinal Pseudoobstruction Caused by Chronic Lyme Neuroborreliosis. A Case Report

July 25, 2015 By David F Schefte and Tyge Nordentoft Abstract Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction is often classified as idiopathic. The... View Article

Boston: Lyme Disease at Epidemic Levels, Say Health Officials

No state budget to control ticks Lyme and anaplasmosis and other tick borne diseases. Ten million spent on West Nile... View Article

Lyme disease subverts immune system, prevents future protection

July 2nd, 2015 – University of California, Davis The bacteria that cause Lyme disease are able to trick an animal’s... View Article

Chronic persistent late Lyme disease not a new phenomenon

Chronic Lyme borreliosis in the laboratory mouse. Am J Pathol. 1993 Sep; 143(3): 959–971 Abstract C3H/HeJ mice were inoculated intraperitoneally... View Article

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