Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming

Lyme disease is bad enough. But it’s just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit,... View Article

Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North

One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world’s most... View Article

Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia

Maria-Jesus Sanz, Connie H. Y. Wong, Pierre-Olivier Hardy, Aydan Salman-Dilgimen, Tara J. Moriart, George Chaconas, Adriana Marques, Roman Krawetz, Christopher... View Article

Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California

Natalia Fedorova, Joyce E. Kleinjan, David James, Lucia T. Hui, Hans Peeters, Robert S. Lane Abstract The diversity of Lyme... View Article

Crowdfunding meets goal to procure Lyme disease program files

MARK HUME VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Sep. 09 2014, 8:00 AM EDT Saying she was frustrated because patients weren’t... View Article

Taylor George went 13 years before being diagnosed with Lyme

By April Hudson, Spruce Grove Examiner/Stony Plain Reporter Friday, September 5, 2014 2:31:03 MDT PM Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Osteoporosis. Myo facial... View Article

Lyme disease growing increasingly common in Quebec

Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged in... View Article

High-throughput screening of tick-borne pathogens in Europe

Lorraine Michelet; Sabine Delannoy; Elodie Devillers; Gérald Umhang; Anna Aspan; Mikael Juremalm; Jan Chirico; Fimme J. van der Wal; Hein... View Article

Orillia OPP detective remains baffled by her disease

By Sara Carson, Orillia Packet & Times Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:56:46 EDT PM Kathleen Menard is a detective at the... View Article

Beating Lyme Disease

By Pamela Weintraub July/August 2014 Katina Makris was living her dream when life derailed. A natural-medicine practitioner with a flourishing... View Article

Identification of novel activity against Borrelia burgdorferi persisters using an FDA approved drug library

Jie Feng1, Ting Wang1, Wanliang Shi1, Shuo Zhang1, David Sullivan1, Paul G Auwaerter2 and Ying Zhang1 1Department of Molecular Microbiology... View Article

Edmonton, Canada : Ticks crawl north, bringing threat of Lyme Disease

What you need to know to protect yourself BY FIONA BUCHANAN, EDMONTON JOURNAL JUNE 17, 2014 EDMONTON – They are... View Article

Lambton Public Health finds 18 blacklegged ticks during tick drag

June 21st, 2014 Be on the lookout for ticks when at the Pinery this summer. Lambton Public Health found more... View Article

Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology among a prospective cohort of early Lyme disease patients

[CanLyme note: Here is a quote from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation at John Hopkins University that furthers our long... View Article

Geographical and genospecies distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA detected in humans in the USA

Jounral of Medical Microbiology Kerry L. Clark1, Brian F. Leydet2 and Clifford Threlkeld Correspondence Kerry L. Clark kclark@unf.edu Received 14 January 2014. Accepted... View Article

Lucky in Lyme

Lucky in Lyme by Lisa Robertson Posted June 18th, 2014 It has taken me a long time to finally find... View Article

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