Detecting Borrelia Spirochetes: A Case Study With Validation Among Autopsy Specimens

The complex etiology of neurodegenerative disease has prompted studies on multiple mechanisms including genetic predisposition, brain biochemistry, immunological responses, and... View Article

Lyme documentary: Faces of Lyme – Ambivalence & Controversy

Watch this wonderfully done Canadian documentary on the consequences of poor medical education, poor tests, and inappropriate guidelines and protocol.... View Article

USA: Tick-Borne Disease Working Group 2022 Report to Congress

Executive Summary In this third and final report of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, the committee applauds the progress that... View Article

Migratory Songbirds Transport Amblyomma longirostre and Amblyomma maculatum Ticks to Canada

ABSTRACT Birds transport ticks into Canada during northward spring migration, and some of these ticks are infected with tick-borne zoonotic... View Article

Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia

Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is distantly related to B. burgdorferi and transmitted by the same hard-body tick species. We report 46... View Article

Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.

Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek Nadja Mallatová Libor Grubhoffer ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of a clinical... View Article

Nouveau-Brunswick: le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme en hausse

La Presse Canadienne Fredericton Le risque de contracter la maladie de Lyme est en hausse au Nouveau-Brunswick, selon des chercheurs... View Article

Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.

Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Dec; 18(12): 1951-7. Abstract Human babesiosis... View Article

Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.

J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M. Source Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond... View Article

Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods

Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich NG and Rich SM Citation: J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012(Nov) Location: ... View Article

Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States

Abstract All reported cases of WA1 babesiosis have occurred in the Pacific coast region of the United States, suggesting that... View Article

Lyme disease counting is uncertain, imprecise [US CDC agrees it is underreported]

Cases soar in the Northeast; CDC admits undercounting but declines ‘epidemic’ label New York state — the veritable epicenter of... View Article

Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro

Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming aggregates... View Article

Lyme disease antiscience – The Lancet

Paul Auwaerter and colleagues1 are among the handful of individuals who have controlled the Lyme disease research agenda for decades... View Article

Persisting atypical and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local inflammation in Lyme neuroborreliosis

Abstract Background The long latent stage seen in syphilis, followed by chronic central nervous system infection and inflammation, can be... View Article

Tuskegee Part 2 – Lyme disease – A far larger fraud?

The Tuskgegee experiment that started in the 1930’s ruined over 600 people’s lives who had syphilis, a spirochetal infection like Lyme... View Article

Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules

Summary Systemic dissemination of microbial pathogens permits microbes to spread from the initial site of infection to secondary target tissues... View Article

Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsii

Paul F. Policastro,* Sandra J. Raffel, and Tom G. Schwan Medical Entomology Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories,... View Article

Is multiple sclerosis (MS) a symptom of Lyme disease?

…. and why is there no current ongoing aggressive human pathology being done in Canada specific to looking for Lyme... View Article

Bartonella spp. Bacteremia and Rheumatic Symptoms in Patients from Lyme Disease–endemic Region

In Response: We offer the following comments to Beard et al. (1) and Raoult (2) regarding their respective responses to... View Article

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