Hamilton scientist who discovered cause of Lyme disease dies

November 19, 2014 10:00 pm HAMILTON – To the world, Willy Burgdorfer will always be remembered as the scientist who discovered... View Article

British Columbia, Canada: Tick borne disease was misdiagnosed for two decades

Julie Bertrand / Oceanside Star November 13, 2014 12:00 AM Qualicum Beach resident Sue Aldous discovered she had Lyme disease... View Article

The Borrelia hermsii factor H binding protein FhbA is not required for infectivity in mice or for resistance to human complement in vitro.

[CanLyme note: Currently, testing and symptomotology knowledge are not nearly accurate enough to distinguish between a human B. hermsii infection and a... View Article

The Mayday Project Responds to Dr. Paul Auwaerter’s Defense of IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease

Friday, November 07, 2014 “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The... View Article

Professor of Microbiology: Lyme is most misunderstood [maligned] disease since AIDS [and far more prevalent]

Holly Ahern 12:08 a.m. EST November 9, 2014 With the possible exception of HIV/AIDS, no infectious disease in recent history... View Article

Lyme Misdiagnosis Can Divert Patients From Correct Treatment

[CanLyme Note: We agree totally that a thorough diagnostic work-up should preclude any diagnosis. Not everything is Lyme borreliosis. What is... View Article

New test shows promise in identifying new drugs to treat Lyme disease

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a test they say will allow them to... View Article

Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden

Oct 31, 2014 A woman was left with a paralysed face after being bitten on the thigh by ticks. Claire... View Article

Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks

CAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from Sydney... View Article

Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment

Robert Mangelsdorf — Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness in... View Article

A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by infection... View Article

The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.

ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North Dakota... View Article

A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).

[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way to... View Article

Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents

[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related Lyme... View Article

Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease

Near Kingston, ON- For the first time Kingston, Frontenac and Lennon & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Region is taking matters into... View Article

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

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