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Wednesday 1 December 2021
Conclusions and Future Research Lyme arthritis provides unique insights into the complex interplay between microbes and host immunity. The progression from localized erythema migrans to early disseminated disease and late Lyme arthritis allows insight into arthritis initiation, and the study of postinfectious Lyme arthritis allows further insight into mechanisms of arthritis persistence. (Source: JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology)
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Tuesday 30 November 2021
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America and Europe, commonly caused by one of three pathogenic genospecies of the spirochete Borrelia 1 2. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is transmitted solely in North America, mostlyby the tick Ixodes scapularis. The infection typically causes dermatologic, musculoskeletal, neurologic, and cardiac illnesses. Both under- and over-diagnosis of Lyme disease have been well described3 4 5. While antibiotic therapy resolves symptoms for most infected patients, some are left with persistent subjective problems such as pain, fatigue or brain fog that may fall within the proposed entity post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome 6. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Monday 29 November 2021
With the rising prevalence of Lyme disease over the last 2 decades comes an increase in cases of Lyme carditis, a consequence of early disseminated infection. This case report focuses on a young man with a complicated case of Lyme carditis that required advanced therapy. (Source: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)
Monday 29 November 2021
ConclusionsThis initial study investigating on infectious agents and inflammation in the IDCM explanted hearts showed that the association between M. pneumoniae and hepatitis B core was associated with a worse outcome after HT, represented by MR and PMR, suggesting that different IDCM microbial communities may be contributing to post-transplant myocardial rejection. (Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology)
Friday 26 November 2021
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Friday 26 November 2021
Semin Neurol 2021; 41: 673-685 DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1726358Facial palsy is a common neurologic concern and is the most common cranial neuropathy. The facial nerve contains motor, parasympathetic, and special sensory functions. The most common form of facial palsy is idiopathic (Bell's palsy). A classic presentation requires no further diagnostic measures, and generally improves with a course of corticosteroid and antiviral therapy. If the presentation is atypical, or concerning features are present, additional studies such as brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid analysis may be indicated. Many conditions may present with facial weakness, either in isolation or with other neurologic signs (e.g., multiple cranial neuropathies). The most important ones to recognize include infections (Ramsay-...
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Tuesday 23 November 2021
CONCLUSION: Web search data, given the limitations noted, are able to directly provide spatiotemporal mapping regarding the needs of the Internet-using population. They are particularly useful in situations where traditional health data are limited or unavailable.PMID:34812913 | PMC:PMC8609262 | DOI:10.1007/s00105-021-04918-x (Source: Der Hautarzt: Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete)
Tuesday 23 November 2021
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Monday 22 November 2021
Conclusions: For patients in endemic regions who describe symptoms suggestive of intracranial hypertension and papilledema, especially accompanied by facial nerve palsy and other cranial nerve palsies, underlying neurologic LB should be considered. (Source: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology)
Thursday 18 November 2021
NIH researcher Andaleeb Sajid discusses her study ’s finding that ticks were unable to feed on vaccinated guinea pigs, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease. (Source: The Scientist)
Thursday 18 November 2021
In this study, statistical acrylamide-based cationic glycopolymers with glucose or galactose pendant groups were synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, and the effects of the saccharide pendant group and cationic monomer loading on polymer cytotoxicity, RNA complexation, and SelK gene knockdown in ISE6 cells were evaluated. All polymers exhibited low cytotoxicity, yet RNA/copolymer complex cell uptake and gene knockdown were highly dependent on the saccharide structure and the N:P (amino to phosphate groups) ratio.PMID:34793129 | DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00824 (Source: Biomacromolecules)
Thursday 18 November 2021
Trop Doct. 2021 Nov 18:494755211049031. doi: 10.1177/00494755211049031. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpirochaetes comprise a heterogenous group of gram negative, motile, spiral shaped bacteria. Some of these pathogens are known to cause numerous human diseases such as Lyme disease, relapsing fever, syphilis and leptospirosis. However, intestinal spirochetosis is a rare condition. Patients frequently present with long-term complaints of loose stools, abdominal pain and weight loss and rectal bleeding. Hence to establish a diagnosis an endoscopy with biopsy is required. In this article, we describe four such cases, having different ages and socio- economic background, successfully treated with a short course of metronidazole.PMID:34792410 | DOI:10.1177/00494755211049031 (Source: Tropical Do...
Thursday 18 November 2021
In this study, statistical acrylamide-based cationic glycopolymers with glucose or galactose pendant groups were synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, and the effects of the saccharide pendant group and cationic monomer loading on polymer cytotoxicity, RNA complexation, and SelK gene knockdown in ISE6 cells were evaluated. All polymers exhibited low cytotoxicity, yet RNA/copolymer complex cell uptake and gene knockdown were highly dependent on the saccharide structure and the N:P (amino to phosphate groups) ratio.PMID:34793129 | DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00824 (Source: Biomacromolecules)
Thursday 18 November 2021
Trop Doct. 2021 Nov 18:494755211049031. doi: 10.1177/00494755211049031. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpirochaetes comprise a heterogenous group of gram negative, motile, spiral shaped bacteria. Some of these pathogens are known to cause numerous human diseases such as Lyme disease, relapsing fever, syphilis and leptospirosis. However, intestinal spirochetosis is a rare condition. Patients frequently present with long-term complaints of loose stools, abdominal pain and weight loss and rectal bleeding. Hence to establish a diagnosis an endoscopy with biopsy is required. In this article, we describe four such cases, having different ages and socio- economic background, successfully treated with a short course of metronidazole.PMID:34792410 | DOI:10.1177/00494755211049031 (Source: Tropical Do...
Thursday 18 November 2021
In this study, statistical acrylamide-based cationic glycopolymers with glucose or galactose pendant groups were synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, and the effects of the saccharide pendant group and cationic monomer loading on polymer cytotoxicity, RNA complexation, and SelK gene knockdown in ISE6 cells were evaluated. All polymers exhibited low cytotoxicity, yet RNA/copolymer complex cell uptake and gene knockdown were highly dependent on the saccharide structure and the N:P (amino to phosphate groups) ratio.PMID:34793129 | DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00824 (Source: Biomacromolecules)
Thursday 18 November 2021
Trop Doct. 2021 Nov 18:494755211049031. doi: 10.1177/00494755211049031. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpirochaetes comprise a heterogenous group of gram negative, motile, spiral shaped bacteria. Some of these pathogens are known to cause numerous human diseases such as Lyme disease, relapsing fever, syphilis and leptospirosis. However, intestinal spirochetosis is a rare condition. Patients frequently present with long-term complaints of loose stools, abdominal pain and weight loss and rectal bleeding. Hence to establish a diagnosis an endoscopy with biopsy is required. In this article, we describe four such cases, having different ages and socio- economic background, successfully treated with a short course of metronidazole.PMID:34792410 | DOI:10.1177/00494755211049031 (Source: Tropical Do...
Wednesday 17 November 2021
An mRNA vaccine that causes a red, itchy skin rash in response to bites by ticks may allow them to be removed before they transmit Lyme disease-causing bacteria (Source: New Scientist - Health)
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Wednesday 17 November 2021
A Yale-developed vaccine that helps more quickly identify tick bites on guinea pigs could offer humans protection against Lyme Disease and other pathogens. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Wednesday 17 November 2021
The objective of this study was to develop a microsimulation model to estimate the population-level health burden of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada.METHODS: We developed a Lyme disease history model using microsimulation, simulating 100 000 people (mean age 37.6 yr, 51% female) from 2017 in Ontario over a lifetime risk of infection and time horizon. We extracted the sensitivity and specificity of the 2-tier testing recommended by the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network, probabilities and health state utility values from the published literature and health administrative data. Our reported outcomes from our stochastic analysis include diagnosed cases of Lyme disease (stratified by stage), undiagnosed infections, sequelae, individuals with PTLDS and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs)...
Wednesday 17 November 2021
Authors: Daša Donša Veno Jaša Grujić Nataša Pipenbaher Danijel Ivajnšič After mosquitoes, ticks are the most important vectors of infectious diseases. They play an important role in public health. In recent decades, we discovered new tick-borne diseases; additionally, those that are already known are spreading to new areas because of climate change. Slovenia is an endemic region for Lyme borreliosis and one of the countries with the highest incidence of this disease on a global scale. Thus, the spatial pattern of Slovenian Lyme borreliosis prevalence was modelled with 246 indicators and transformed into 24 uncorrelated predictor variables that were applied in geographically weighted regression and regression tree algorithms. The projected potential shifts in Lyme borreli...
Saturday 13 November 2021
Many diseases in medicine have been dubbed “Great Imitators” to include syphilis and, more recently, Lyme disease. In the orthopedic world, patellar instability can be added to that list. I recently offered to see a young athlete who injured his knee. He was from the high school football team that my partner takes care of. He had an effu sion and was difficult to examine, so I assumed that he had an ACL injury, sent the boy off for an MRI, and arranged for follow-up with him. I later learned that the player actually had a patellar dislocation and had a TT-TG measurement of 25 mm. (Source: Clinics in Sports Medicine)
Thursday 11 November 2021
J Immunol. 2021 Nov 10:ji2100815. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100815. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComplement evasion is a hallmark of extracellular microbial pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Lyme disease spirochetes express nearly a dozen outer surface lipoproteins that bind complement components and interfere with their native activities. Among these, BBK32 is unique in its selective inhibition of the classical pathway. BBK32 blocks activation of this pathway by selectively binding and inhibiting the C1r serine protease of the first component of complement, C1. To understand the structural basis for BBK32-mediated C1r inhibition, we performed crystallography and size-exclusion chromatography-coupled small angle X-ray scattering experiments, which r...
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Thursday 11 November 2021
Cell Host Microbe. 2021 Nov 10;29(11):1599-1601. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.10.007.ABSTRACTLyme disease, which is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is on the rise. Current treatment relies on broad-spectrum antibiotics that perturb the gut microbiome. In a recent paper in Cell, Leimer et al. demonstrate the utility of a long-forgotten antibiotic, Hygromycin A, as a spirochete-specific antibacterial that is conducive to gut health.PMID:34762823 | DOI:10.1016/j.chom.2021.10.007 (Source: Cell Host and Microbe)
Thursday 11 November 2021
Cell Host Microbe. 2021 Nov 10;29(11):1599-1601. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.10.007.ABSTRACTLyme disease, which is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is on the rise. Current treatment relies on broad-spectrum antibiotics that perturb the gut microbiome. In a recent paper in Cell, Leimer et al. demonstrate the utility of a long-forgotten antibiotic, Hygromycin A, as a spirochete-specific antibacterial that is conducive to gut health.PMID:34762823 | DOI:10.1016/j.chom.2021.10.007 (Source: Cell Host and Microbe)
Thursday 11 November 2021
J Immunol. 2021 Nov 10:ji2100815. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100815. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTComplement evasion is a hallmark of extracellular microbial pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Lyme disease spirochetes express nearly a dozen outer surface lipoproteins that bind complement components and interfere with their native activities. Among these, BBK32 is unique in its selective inhibition of the classical pathway. BBK32 blocks activation of this pathway by selectively binding and inhibiting the C1r serine protease of the first component of complement, C1. To understand the structural basis for BBK32-mediated C1r inhibition, we performed crystallography and size-exclusion chromatography-coupled small angle X-ray scattering experiments, which r...
Tuesday 9 November 2021
Did spending more time indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic result in fewer reported cases of Lyme disease?Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Tuesday 9 November 2021
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiology of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) in Kalmar County, in southern Sweden, between 2008 and 2019, and to analyse the relationship between the LNB incidence and climate factors. Data containing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell counts and borrelia CSF/serum antibody index results was received from the departments of clinical chemistry and microbiology at Kalmar County hospital. For this study, we defined LNB as a case with a positive borrelia antibody CSF/serum index and CSF leukocytes > 5 × 106/L. Climate data including mean temperature, humidity and precipitation covering Kalmar County was collected from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. A total of 5051 paired serum-CSF samples from 4835 patients ...
Monday 8 November 2021
ConclusionDespite being rare, spirochetal uveitis can be detrimental for the vision and must always be included in the differential diagnosis. (Source: International Ophthalmology)
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Monday 8 November 2021
In areas where Lyme disease is endemic, bites from ticks are common, but no vaccine is currently available against Lyme disease for humans. Therefore, the feasibility of using antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Monday 8 November 2021
The tick Ixodes ricinus is an important vector of tick-borne diseases including Lyme borreliosis. In continental Europe, the nymphal stage of I. ricinus often has a bimodal phenology with a large spring peak and ... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Researchers found that a neglected antibiotic called hygromycin A selectively kills the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Monday 1 November 2021
WebMD sat down with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to find out a little bit more about his journey and what he recommends to anyone with Lyme Disease. (Source: WebMD Health)
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Thursday 28 October 2021
In this study, we characterized the YbaB/EbfC family DNA-binding protein in Caulobacter crescentus. C. crescentus has one YbaB/EbfC family gene annotated in the genome (YbaBCc) and it shares 41% sequence identity with YbaB/EbfC family NAPs. Computational modeling revealed tweezer-like structure of YbaBCc, a characteristic of YbaB/EbfC family of NAPs. N-terminal–CFP tagged YbaBCc localized with the nucleoid and is able to compact DNA. Unlike B. burgdorferi EbfC protein, YbaBCc protein is a non-specific DNA-binding protein in C. crescentus. Moreover, YbaBCc shields DNA against enzymatic degradation. Collectively, our findings reveal that YbaBCc is a small histone-like protein and may play a role in bacterial chromosome structuring and gene regulation in C. crescentus. (Source: Frontiers in...
Wednesday 27 October 2021
is the most common tick-borne illness in the USA and Europe. Pathogens involved include Borrelia burgdorferi in the USA and B. afzelii and B. garinii in Europe. The characteristic rash of erythema migrans occurs in 70 –80% of patients. Neurological disease, including facial palsy, meningo-encephalitis, aseptic meningitis and polyradiculopathy, occurs in 10–15%. Cardiac disease, primarily manifest as heart block, is seen in 1–4%. Arthritis is a late complication in about 30% of untreated patients. (Source: Medicine)
Monday 25 October 2021
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) could have chosen to settle the lawsuit instead of fighting it, but the principles at stake were too high, they decided.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Rheumatology Headlines)
Monday 25 October 2021
This report describes how a student and nursing faculty member provided community education to 3 rural communities about how climate change impacts the health of rural communities through the local community newspaper serving the 3 communities. Climate and health-related topics in a weekly newspaper column in this project included extreme heat events, Lyme disease, air pollution, water quality, soil health, environmental justice, and the role of the nurse in planetary health. (Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners)
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Saturday 23 October 2021
AbstractLyme disease is an infection caused byBorrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. The majority of patients recover without complications with antibiotic therapy. However, for a minority of patients, accompanying non-specific symptoms can persist for months following completion of therapy. The constellation of symptoms such as fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and musculoskeletal pain that persist beyond 6 months and are associated with disability have been termed post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), a subset of a broader term “chronic Lyme disease.” Chronic Lyme disease is a broad, vaguely defined term that is used to describe patients with non-specific symptoms that are attributed to a presumed persisten...
Friday 22 October 2021
ConclusionThe majority of the RA patients had Pc immune responses. The correlation of IgA Pc antibody responses, particularly to Pc-p27, with ACPA supports the hypothesis that specific microbial antigens in the mucosa have a role in shaping or amplifying immune responses in RA joints. (Source: Arthritis and Rheumatology)
Tuesday 19 October 2021
We report an imported case of Bannwarth syndrome in a pediatric patient and review the literature for other pediatric cases reported. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Conclusions: Operative management of pediatric patients with Lyme arthritis is associated with increased resource utilization and costs while being similarly efficacious to nonoperative management. As the US Lyme epidemic expands, improved diagnosis and management of acute undifferentiated arthritis may prevent unneeded operative intervention. Level of Evidence: Level III—retrospective cohort study. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics)
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Authors: Didier G. Leibovici Helena Bylund Christer Björkman Nikolay Tokarevich Tomas Thierfelder Birgitta Evengård Shaun Quegan Some of the climate-sensitive infections (CSIs) affecting humans are zoonotic vector-borne diseases, such as Lyme borreliosis (BOR) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), mostly linked to various species of ticks as vectors. Due to climate change, the geographical distribution of tick species, their hosts, and the prevalence of pathogens are likely to change. A recent increase in human incidences of these CSIs in the Nordic regions might indicate an expansion of the range of ticks and hosts, with vegetation changes acting as potential predictors linked to habitat suitability. In this paper, we study districts in Fennoscandia and Russia where incid...
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Monday 18 October 2021
Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2021 Oct 18. doi: 10.1007/s10571-021-01154-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlzheimer's disease (AD), the most frequently diagnosed dementia, is a senile neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amnesia and cognitive dysfunction. Unfortunately, there are still no successful strategies to prevent AD progression. Thus, the vast majority of research focuses on recognizing risk factors for developing and progressing this disease. Human spirochetes, fungi, Borrelia burgdorferi, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, and human herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) have all been implicated in the development and progression of AD. Identifying microRNAs (miRs) encoded by DNA viruses has indicated that viruses can be evolved to exploit RNA silencing to regulate host and...
Saturday 16 October 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Due to the increasing incidence of LD in Canada, there is a greater need for resource consistency. Providing this consistency may help mitigate LD burden, standardize approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and improve patient outcomes.PMID:34654327 | DOI:10.1177/21501327211050744 (Source: Primary Care)
Tuesday 12 October 2021
This study suggests that an adapted training-of-trainers is a feasible approach to raising tick and LD risk awareness among Qu ébec outdoor workers and public. Trained ambassadors have the potential of reaching a large portion of the population visiting or working in outdoor parks while also providing much-needed outreach regarding risk and prevention. Pushing this concept further to include other types of workers and juri sdictions may contribute to national LD surveillance efforts. (Source: PLoS One)
Tuesday 12 October 2021
Lyme borreliosis is a multisystemic disease caused by the pleomorphic bacteria of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The exact mechanisms for the infection to progress into a prolonged sequelae of the disease are currently unknown, although immune evasion and persistence of the bacteria in the host are thought to be major contributors. The current study investigated B. burgdorferi infection processes in two human cell lines, both non-immune and non-phagocytic, to further understand the mechanisms of infection of this bacterium. By utilizing light, confocal, helium ion, and transmission electron microscopy, borrelial infection of chondrosarcoma (SW1353) and dermal fibroblast (BJ) cells were examined from an early 30-min time point to a late 9-days post-infection. Host cell invasio...
Saturday 9 October 2021
Radiologia (Engl Ed). 2021 Sep-Oct;63(5):425-435. doi: 10.1016/j.rxeng.2021.07.002.ABSTRACTInfections of the central nervous system caused by atypical bacteria are becoming more common. Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsia conorii are microorganisms transmitted by ticks; infection with these bacteria result in a wide spectrum of manifestations on imaging. In areas where these tick-borne microorganisms are endemic, including Spain, these infections must be included in the differential diagnosis of patients with a variety of systemic and neurologic symptoms. The clinical presentation of these infections is nonspecific, and CT is normally the initial imaging technique, although MRI is more sensitive to early changes. On MRI, these infections can manifest as small lesions in the deep supratento...
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Saturday 9 October 2021
AbstractThe chemokine CXCL13 is used as complement to serology in the diagnostics of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB). We evaluated and compared the semi-quantitative, cassette-based ReaScan CXCL13 assay with the quantitative recomBead CXCL13 assay using a collection of 209 cerebrospinal fluid samples. The categorical agreement between results interpreted as negative, grey zone, and positive by the two methods was 87%. The diagnostic sensitivity was higher using the recomBead assay, whereas specificity was higher using ReaScan. Few manual steps, and a short turn-around time with no batching of samples makes the ReaScan CXCL13 assay an attractive complement to serology in the diagnostics of LNB. (Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
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Friday 8 October 2021
Erythema migrans (EM) is the most common manifestation of Lyme borreliosis. Here, we examined EM patients in Norwegian general practice to find the proportion exposed to tick-transmitted microorganisms other t... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Thursday 7 October 2021
An exciting new finding by. Dr. Kim Lewis of Northeastern University gives hope that Lyme disease can be potentially treated without harming the microbiome.(PRWeb October 07, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/global_lyme_alliance_congratulates_dr_kim_lewis_on_groundbreaking_publication_a_selective_antibiotic_for_lyme_disease/prweb18247374.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is becoming more common in many countries, could be eradicated using a drug that kills the disease-causing bacterium (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Mil Med. 2021 Oct 6:usab420. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usab420. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLyme disease is a vector-borne infection that can affect multiple different organ systems. Lyme carditis represents one of these sequelae and is defined by acute onset of high-grade atrioventricular block in the presence of laboratory-confirmed infection. Current guidelines recommend patients with Lyme carditis be admitted for close cardiac monitoring and intravenous antibiotics therapy. Our case illustrates an active duty male who was initially diagnosed with Lyme disease after initially reporting symptoms including headache, fever, eye pain, and rash, with subsequent development of exercise intolerance 6 weeks later. An electrocardiogram (ECG) obtained at that time was misinterpreted as first-degree h...
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02716-yHygromycin A doesn’t work well against most bacteria, but it shines as a treatment for Lyme disease. (Source: Nature AOP)
Monday 4 October 2021
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Friday 1 October 2021
FINDINGSA UCLA study suggests that many physicians may not have the knowledge or training to properly recognize how Lyme disease appears on the skin of Black patients. The disease, caused by the tick-borne Borrelia bacterium, generally begins with a bull ’s-eye–shaped rash on the skin, along with fever, headache, chills and muscle pain; if not diagnosed promptly and treated with antibiotics, it can lead to more severe and long-lasting symptoms.UCLA ’s Dr. Dan Ly found that approximately 1 in 3 Black patients who were newly diagnosed with Lyme disease already had related neurological complications such as meningitis, neuropathy and cranial neuritis — an indication that the disease may not have been properly diagnosed in its earlier stages. Less than 1 in 10 newly diagnosed white pat...
Friday 1 October 2021
Assembly of the bacterial flagellar rod, hook, and filament requires penetration through the peptidoglycan (PG) sacculus and outer membrane. In most β- and γ-proteobacteria, the protein FlgJ has two functional domains that enable PG hydrolyzing activity to create pores, facilitating proper assembly of the flagellar rod. However, two distinct proteins performing the same functions as the dual-domain FlgJ are proposed in δ- and ε-proteobacteria as well as spirochetes. The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi genome possesses a FlgJ and a PG lytic SLT enzyme protein homolog (BB0259). FlgJ in B. burgdorferi is crucial for flagellar hook and filament assembly but not for the proper rod assembly reported in other bacteria. However, BB0259 has never been characterized. Here, we use cr...
Thursday 30 September 2021
When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19—but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research. Officials often point to these impressive figures as evidence that we can tame COVID-19 into a mostly mild illness that behaves like a routine cold or flu, and thus with which we can coexist. After all, the vaccines were not designed to quash viral spread entirely; they were designed to defang the virus by preventing its...
Thursday 30 September 2021
Identifying the mechanisms driving disease risk is challenging for multi-host pathogens, such as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), the tick-borne bacteria causing Lyme disease. Deer are tick reproduction ho... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Tuesday 28 September 2021
ConclusionsThe present study shows that, next to pre-treatment functioning, patients ’ pre-treatment and post-treatment expectancies regarding improvement of persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme disease relate to a more beneficial symptom course. Expectancies of patients may be relevant to explain and potentially improve patient outcomes (e.g., by optimized communication about t reatment success).Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01207739 (Registration date: 23 –09-2010)Key Points•As there is currently no sufficient symptom resolution or symptomatic improvement for many patients with persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme disease, it is relevant to know which factors determine symptom progression and predict heterogeneity in treatment response.•Next to pre-treatment functi...
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Tuesday 28 September 2021
In this study, we investigated the occurrence and the genetic diversity of Rickettsiella spp. in I. ricinus throughout Europe and evaluated any preferential and antagonistic associations with Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and the pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Borrelia miyamotoi. Rickettsiella spp. were detected in most I. ricinus populations investigated, encompassing a wide array of climate types and environments. The infection prevalence significantly differed between geographic locations and was significantly higher in adults than in immature life stages. Phylogenetic investigations and protein characterization disclosed four Rickettsiella clades (I-IV). Close phylogenetic relations were observed between Rickettsiella strains of I. ricinus and other arthropod speci...
Tuesday 28 September 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Overall, participants desired a more holistic approach to diagnosis, symptom assessment, and symptom management. Recommendations for future research and clinical considerations are discussed.PMID:34582513 (Source: Pain Physician)
Tuesday 28 September 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Overall, participants desired a more holistic approach to diagnosis, symptom assessment, and symptom management. Recommendations for future research and clinical considerations are discussed.PMID:34582513 (Source: Pain Physician)
Friday 24 September 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of IgG antibodies against a number of Borreliella antigens and the differences in the IL-2 and MMP2 levels in seropositive or seronegative individuals and symptomatic LB patients, may indicate differences in the intensity of the immune response to the infection and, consequently, may induce development of clinical manifestations of the disease in seropositive and seronegative individuals.PMID:34558260 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/124088 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Friday 24 September 2021
Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2021 May 27;6:100142. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100142. eCollection 2021 Jul.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Concerns about long-lasting symptoms attributed to Lyme borreliosis (LB) are widespread in the Western world, while such symptoms are highly prevalent in the general population.METHODS: In the largest prospective study to date, adults with physician-confirmed LB were included at the start of antibiotic treatment. Primary outcomes, prevalence of persistent symptoms and symptom severity, were assessed using three-monthly standardised questionnaires during one year. Persistent symptoms were defined as impaired scores for fatigue (CIS, subscale fatigue), cognitive impairment (CFQ) or pain (SF-36, subscale bodily pain) ≥6 months, with onset <6 months. Outcomes were compa...
Friday 24 September 2021
Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2021 May 27;6:100142. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100142. eCollection 2021 Jul.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Concerns about long-lasting symptoms attributed to Lyme borreliosis (LB) are widespread in the Western world, while such symptoms are highly prevalent in the general population.METHODS: In the largest prospective study to date, adults with physician-confirmed LB were included at the start of antibiotic treatment. Primary outcomes, prevalence of persistent symptoms and symptom severity, were assessed using three-monthly standardised questionnaires during one year. Persistent symptoms were defined as impaired scores for fatigue (CIS, subscale fatigue), cognitive impairment (CFQ) or pain (SF-36, subscale bodily pain) ≥6 months, with onset <6 months. Outcomes were compa...
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Friday 24 September 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of IgG antibodies against a number of Borreliella antigens and the differences in the IL-2 and MMP2 levels in seropositive or seronegative individuals and symptomatic LB patients, may indicate differences in the intensity of the immune response to the infection and, consequently, may induce development of clinical manifestations of the disease in seropositive and seronegative individuals.PMID:34558260 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/124088 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Friday 24 September 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of IgG antibodies against a number of Borreliella antigens and the differences in the IL-2 and MMP2 levels in seropositive or seronegative individuals and symptomatic LB patients, may indicate differences in the intensity of the immune response to the infection and, consequently, may induce development of clinical manifestations of the disease in seropositive and seronegative individuals.PMID:34558260 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/124088 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Teaching point: Meticulous anamnesis and a high index of suspicion is needed for the diagnosis of Lyme arthritis. Published on 2021-09-21 11:30:32 (Source: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology)
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Oct;27(10):2715-2717. doi: 10.3201/eid2710.210903.ABSTRACTSurveys indicate US residents spent more time outdoors in 2020 than in 2019, but fewer tick bite-related emergency department visits and Lyme disease laboratory tests were reported. Despite ongoing exposure, Lyme disease case reporting for 2020 might be artificially reduced due to coronavirus disease-associated changes in healthcare-seeking behavior.PMID:34545801 | DOI:10.3201/eid2710.210903 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Tuesday 14 September 2021
The objective of this study was to estimate the speed and direction of human Lyme disease emergence in Québec and to identify spatiotemporal risk patterns. A surface trend analysis was conducted to estimate the speed and direction of its emergence based upon the first detected case of Lyme disease in each municipality in Québec since 2004. A cluster analysis was also conducted to identify at-risk regions across space and time. These analyses were reproduced for the date of disease onset and date of notification for each case of Lyme disease. It was estimated that Lyme disease is spreading northward in Québec at a speed varying between 18 and 32 km/year according to the date of notification and the date of disease onset, respectively. A significantly high risk of disease was found in sev...
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Monday 13 September 2021
AbstractFor diagnosis of neuroborreliosis, calculation of the antibody index, based on Euroimmun Anti-Borrelia plus VlsE ELISA was compared to Virotech Borrelia Europe plus TpN17 immunoblot-based detection ofBorrelia-specific intrathecal antibody production. CXCL13 results in cerebrospinal fluid were used to evaluate discordant results. A total of 64 serum/CSF pairs were analysed. Patients were classified according to European Federation of Neurological Societies criteria incorporating Virotech results. For the Euroimmun assay, a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 94% was found. Agreement between the both tests was almost perfect (κ 0.81). Both methods are appropriate for the detection ofBorrelia-specific intrathecal antibody production. (Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiol...
Sunday 12 September 2021
CONCLUSION: The majority of the cases involved meningoradiculitis but other, less common, neurological conditions have been described. The clinical signs suggestive of meningitis are not very marked and might delay the diagnosis.PMID:34509348 | DOI:10.1016/j.arcped.2021.08.001 (Source: Archives de Pediatrie)
Wednesday 8 September 2021
by Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, Russell L. Burke, Nicholas H. Ogden, Lorenza Beati, Roger A. LeBrun, Isis M. Arsnoe, Richard Gerhold, Seungeun Han, Kaetlyn Jackson, Lauren Maestas, Teresa Moody, Genevieve Pang, Breann Ross, Eric L. Rulison, Jean I. Tsao (Source: PLoS Biology: Archived Table of Contents)
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Lyme disease, caused primarily by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the United States. Treatment of rodent pathogen reservoirs with an oral acaricide may suppress t... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Monday 6 September 2021
Complement has been considered as an important factor impacting the host –pathogen association of spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, and may play a role in the spirochete’s ecolo... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Friday 3 September 2021
ConclusionThe discrepancy between changes in incidence of TBE and LB support the contributions of virus-specific factors beyond the mere availability of tick vectors and/or human outdoor activity, which are a prerequisite for the transmission of both diseases. A better understanding of parameters controlling human pathogenicity and the maintenance of TBE virus in its natural vector-host cycle will generate further insights into the focal nature of TBE and can potentially improve forecasts of TBE risk on smaller regional scales.PMID:34477056 | DOI:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.35.2002108 (Source: Euro Surveill)
Thursday 2 September 2021
Niladri Kayal, Ritwik Ghosh, Partha Sarathi Mazumdar, Shambaditya Das, Saumyajit Ghosh, Alak Pandit, Julián Benito-LeonNeurology India 2021 69(4):997-1001 Borrelia burgdorferi can affect the nervous system in various ways, which can generate significant confusion and dilemma regarding diagnosis. From India, a country until recently known to be a nonendemic zone for Lyme disease, several cases and one study of Lyme neuroborreliosis have been published. The aim of this study was to describe a young woman with bilateral facial nerve palsy as the presenting manifestation of Lyme neuroborreliosis. We herein report a case of a lactating woman with acute onset progressive ascending flaccid tetraparesis that was preceded by a misdiagnosed bilateral facial nerve palsy. She was finally diagn...
Thursday 2 September 2021
ConclusionThe discrepancy between changes in incidence of TBE and LB support the contributions of virus-specific factors beyond the mere availability of tick vectors and/or human outdoor activity, which are a prerequisite for the transmission of both diseases. A better understanding of parameters controlling human pathogenicity and the maintenance of TBE virus in its natural vector−host cycle will generate further insights into the focal nature of TBE and can potentially improve forecasts of TBE risk on smaller regional scales. (Source: Eurosurveillance)
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Wednesday 1 September 2021
CONCLUSION: This is the first case series of patients with Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks. They had high rates of other medically unexplained syndromes, and no evidence of acute Lyme disease, or any common organic disease process. Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks remains medically unexplained, and may therefore be due to an as yet unidentified cause, or may be considered a medically unexplained syndrome similar to conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome.PMID:34465249 | DOI:10.1177/00048674211043788 (Source: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry)
Tuesday 31 August 2021
Primary care and frontline healthcare providers are often the first point of contact for patients experiencing tick-borne disease (TBD) but face challenges when recognizing and diagnosing these diseases. The s... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Monday 30 August 2021
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2021 May 17;2021:585-594. eCollection 2021.ABSTRACTMany diseases have been linked with birth seasonality, and these fall into four main categories: mental, cardiovascular, respiratory and women's reproductive health conditions. Informatics methods are needed to uncover seasonally varying infectious diseases that may be responsible for the increased birth month-dependent disease risk observed. We have developed a method to link seasonal infectious disease data from the USA to birth month dependent disease data from humans and canines. We also include seasonal air pollution and climate data to determine the seasonal factors most likely involved in the response. We test our method with osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. We found the Lyme disease incidence was the most stro...
Sunday 29 August 2021
Radiologia. 2021 Aug 25:S0033-8338(21)00122-3. doi: 10.1016/j.rx.2021.07.003. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInfections of the central nervous system caused by atypical bacteria are becoming more common. Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsia conorii are microorganisms transmitted by ticks; infection with these bacteria result in a wide spectrum of manifestations on imaging. In areas where these tick-borne microorganisms are endemic, including Spain, these infections must be included in the differential diagnosis of patients with a variety of systemic and neurologic symptoms. The clinical presentation of these infections is nonspecific, and CT is normally the initial imaging technique, although MRI is more sensitive to early changes. On MRI, these infections can manifest as small lesions in th...
Saturday 28 August 2021
DR ELLIE CANNON: There are between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of Lyme disease every year in England and Wales - with areas such as the New Forest and Scottish Highlands the highest risk. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Saturday 28 August 2021
Abstract: A 33-year-old man presented with acute painless loss of vision in his right eye after hand–foot–mouth disease (HFMD). Examination confirmed a right optic neuropathy. Neuroimaging and routine evaluations for alternative causes for an optic neuropathy were negative. He was treated with high dose corticosteroids and made an almost complete visual recovery. Postinfectious optic neuritis has been reported after a vast array of infections including: varicella zoster virus, influenza virus, herpes simplex virus, Epstein–Barr Virus, Lyme disease, and many others. Although Coxsackie virus infections are a known cause of HFMD and have been reported to cause maculopathy, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of optic neuritis after HFMD in the English langu...
Friday 27 August 2021
Dev Comp Immunol. 2021 Aug 24:104234. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2021.104234. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEntomopathogenic fungi (EPF) have been widely explored for their potential in the biological control of insect pests and as an environmentally friendly alternative to acaricides for limiting tick infestation in the field. The arthropod cuticle is the main barrier against fungal infection, however, an understanding of internal defense mechanisms after EPF intrusion into the invertebrate hemocoel is still rather limited. Using an infection model of the European Lyme borreliosis vector Ixodes ricinus with the EPF Metarhizium robertsii, we demonstrated that ticks are capable of protecting themselves to a certain extent against mild fungal infections. However, tick mortality dramatically increase...
Thursday 26 August 2021
Lyme borreliosis and other tick-borne diseases emerge from increased interactions between humans, other animals, and infected ticks. The risk of acquiring a tick-borne infection varies across space and time, s... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Monday 23 August 2021
ConclusionInfectious causes for non-idiopathic FP like VZV reactivation and Lyme disease had best probability for complete recovery. Post-surgery FP had a worse prognosis.Level of evidence2 (Source: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)
Monday 23 August 2021
D. W. McCormick et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Saturday 21 August 2021
We evaluated the efficiency of an ex vivo feeding technique using a silicone membrane-based feeding chamber to (i) assess the anti-feeding and acaricidal efficacy of a spot-on combination of dinotefuran, pyrip... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Friday 20 August 2021
Increased inflammation, immune activation, and psychological factors may help explain the association of Lyme disease with higher rates of psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior, researchers say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Friday 20 August 2021
Lyme Disease May Up Risk for Mental Illness, Suicidal Behavior (Source: eMedicineHealth.com)
Tuesday 17 August 2021
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Tuesday 17 August 2021
TUESDAY, Aug. 17, 2021 -- Patients hospitalized with Lyme disease have a higher rate of mental disorders and attempted suicide after infection, according to a study published online July 28 in The American Journal of Psychiatry. Brian A. Fallon,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
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Monday 16 August 2021
Lyme disease is the most frequent tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. It often presents with a wide variety of symptoms. For this reason, affection of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) caused by Lyme dise... (Source: BMC Oral Health)
Thursday 12 August 2021
The clinical manifestations of this tickborne disease can differ according to the species causing the infection.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Thursday 12 August 2021
Eye on Innovation features exciting advances taking place at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. This monthly series shines a spotlight on recently developed tests and highlights how Mayo Clinic translates ideas and discoveries into testing resources that improve diagnosis and care for patients across the globe. ______________________________________________ It ’s long been known that Lyme disease is caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected black-legged tick (otherwise known as the deer tick). The understanding for many years was… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Wednesday 11 August 2021
Conclusion: Eight orofacial manifestations of Lyme disease were revealed by this systematic review. Future research regarding the orofacial manifestations of Lyme disease is needed so this medical condition can be better understood by oral health care providers and result in improved health outcomes for infected patients.PMID:34376541 (Source: Journal of Dental Hygiene)
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Monday 2 August 2021
Dr. Auwaerter has consulted for DiaSorin, Adaptive Biotherapeutics and Pfizer; has done research sponsored by MicroB-Plex; has been an expert witness in malpractice cases involving Lyme disease; and is an unpaid board member of the American Lyme Disease Foundation. Dr. Kobayashi has no disclosures. Dr. Wormser reports receiving research grants from the Institute for Systems Biology and Pfizer, Inc. He has been an expert witness in malpractice cases involving Lyme disease; and is an unpaid board member of the non-profit American Lyme Disease Foundation. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Sunday 1 August 2021
This article reviews the symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment of neuroborreliosis. RECENT FINDINGS The most recent guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease were published in 2020 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American College of Rheumatology. SUMMARY The most common neurologic complications of Lyme disease are cranial neuritis (most often a unilateral or bilateral facial nerve palsy), meningitis, and radiculoneuritis/mononeuropathy multiplex. Testing for Lyme disease begins with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). If the ELISA is positive or borderline, Western blots should be performed for both IgM and IgG antibodies. As a general rule, in infectious diseases, an IgM antibody response...
Friday 30 July 2021
OBJECTIVE: Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne infectious disease that may confer an increased risk of mental disorders, but previous studies have been hampered by methodological limitations, including small sample sizes. The authors used a nationwide retrosp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Friday 30 July 2021
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
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Thursday 29 July 2021
People in Denmark diagnosed with Lyme disease in a hospital went on to have 28% higher rates of mental disorders and were twice as likely to have attempted suicide, compared with those without the diagnosis, according to astudy published Wednesday inAJP in Advance. Having more than one episode of Lyme disease was associated with a higher rate of mental disorders, affective disorders, and suicide attempts.According to theCDC, nearly half a million people a year in the United States are treated for Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis), the most common vector-borne disease, and the areas where Lyme disease is common are expanding. Several studies have pointed to a connection between Lyme disease and psychiatric manifestations in people with untreated infection as well as months to ye...
Wednesday 28 July 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Individuals diagnosed with Lyme borreliosis in the hospital setting had an increased risk of mental disorders, affective disorders, suicide attempts, and suicide. Although the absolute population risk is low, clinicians should be aware of potential psychiatric sequelae of this global disease.PMID:34315282 | DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.20091347 (Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry)
Monday 26 July 2021
The high polymorphism of Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes is generally considered to be a result of pathogen-mediated balancing selection. Such selection may operate in the form of heterozygote advantage, and/or through specific MHC allele–pathogen interactions. Specific MHC allele–pathogen interactions may promote polymorphism via negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS), or selection that varies in time and/or space because of variability in the composition of the pathogen community (fluctuating selection; FS). In addition, divergent allele advantage (DAA) may act on top of these forms of balancing selection, explaining the high sequence divergence between MHC alleles. DAA has primarily been thought of as an extension of heterozygote advantage. However, DAA could als...
Sunday 25 July 2021
SUNDAY, July 25, 2021 -- When you're heading outdoors this summer, keep an eye out for ticks during and after your outing, health experts say. These common parasites can transmit Lyme disease, a potentially serious illness. Lyme disease is... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Sunday 25 July 2021
Immunobiology. 2021 Jul 13;226(5):152091. doi: 10.1016/j.imbio.2021.152091. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe spike protein of coronavirus is key target for drug development and other pharmacological interventions. In current study, we performed an integrative approach to predict antigenic sites in SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain and found nine potential antigenic sites. The predicted antigenic sites were then assessed for possible molecular similarity with other known antigens in different organisms. Out of nine sites, seven sites showed molecular similarity with 54 antigenic determinants found in twelve pathogenic bacterial species (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, Bacillus anthracis, Borrelia burgdorferi, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium tetani, Helicobacte...
Friday 23 July 2021
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Thursday 22 July 2021
J Vector Borne Dis. 2020 Apr-Jun;57(2):189-192. doi: 10.4103/0972-9062.310870.NO ABSTRACTPMID:34290166 | DOI:10.4103/0972-9062.310870 (Source: Journal of Vector Borne Diseases)
Wednesday 21 July 2021
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;27(8):2235-2236. doi: 10.3201/eid2708.211107.ABSTRACTSuspicion of coronavirus disease in febrile patients might lead to anchoring bias, causing misdiagnosis of other infections for which epidemiologic risks are present. This bias has potentially severe consequences, illustrated by cases of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Lyme disease in a pregnant woman and human granulocytic anaplasmosis in another person.PMID:34287136 | DOI:10.3201/eid2708.211107 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
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Wednesday 21 July 2021
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;27(8):2017-2024. doi: 10.3201/eid2708.204763.ABSTRACTLyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tickborne disease in the United States and Europe. In both locations, Ixodes species ticks transmit the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato bacteria species responsible for causing the infection. The diversity of Borrelia species that cause human infection is greater in Europe; the 2 B. burgdorferi s.l. species collectively responsible for most infections in Europe, B. afzelii and B. garinii, are not found in the United States, where most infections are caused by B. burgdorferi sensu stricto. Strain differences seem to explain some of the variation in the clinical manifestations of Lyme disease, which are both minor and substantive, between the United States and...
Wednesday 21 July 2021
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;27(8):2235-2236. doi: 10.3201/eid2708.211107.ABSTRACTSuspicion of coronavirus disease in febrile patients might lead to anchoring bias, causing misdiagnosis of other infections for which epidemiologic risks are present. This bias has potentially severe consequences, illustrated by cases of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Lyme disease in a pregnant woman and human granulocytic anaplasmosis in another person.PMID:34287136 | DOI:10.3201/eid2708.211107 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Wednesday 21 July 2021
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;27(8):2017-2024. doi: 10.3201/eid2708.204763.ABSTRACTLyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tickborne disease in the United States and Europe. In both locations, Ixodes species ticks transmit the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato bacteria species responsible for causing the infection. The diversity of Borrelia species that cause human infection is greater in Europe; the 2 B. burgdorferi s.l. species collectively responsible for most infections in Europe, B. afzelii and B. garinii, are not found in the United States, where most infections are caused by B. burgdorferi sensu stricto. Strain differences seem to explain some of the variation in the clinical manifestations of Lyme disease, which are both minor and substantive, between the United States and...
Tuesday 20 July 2021
One element of Upstate's work on Lyme disease and ticks is it's wildly successful tick identification program. Since April, more than 13,000 ticks have been sent to Upstate, with nearly one-third carrying some sort of infectious disease. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
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Saturday 17 July 2021
DISCUSSION: The likelihood of clinically relevant TTB is low. Testing would have very little utility in Canada at this time. Ongoing pathogen surveillance in tick vectors is important as B. microti prevalence appears to be slowly increasing in Canada.PMID:34272882 | DOI:10.1111/trf.16595 (Source: Transfusion)
Thursday 15 July 2021
In conclusion, seasonality is an important environmental factor that influences immune responses, in addition to specific genetic and nongenetic host factors, and this may well explain the seasonal variation in the incidence and severity of immune-mediated diseases.PMID:34261668 | DOI:10.4049/jimmunol.2000133 (Source: Journal of Immunology)
Thursday 15 July 2021
Availability of highly parallelized immunoassays has renewed interest in the discovery of serology biomarkers for infectious diseases. Protein and peptide microarrays now provide a rapid, high-throughput platform for immunological testing and validation of potential antigens and B-cell epitopes. However, there is still a need for tools to prioritize and select relevant probes when designing these arrays. In this work we describe a computational method called APRANK (Antigenic Protein and Peptide Ranker) which integrates multiple molecular features to prioritize potentially antigenic proteins and peptides in a given pathogen proteome. These features include subcellular localization, presence of repetitive motifs, natively disordered regions, secondary structure, transmembrane spans and pred...
Wednesday 14 July 2021
A. R. Marques et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Wednesday 14 July 2021
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Taylor J. Van Gundy, Amy J. Ullmann, Kevin S. Brandt, Robert D. Gilmore (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Monday 12 July 2021
(Virginia Tech) The awards are designed to support established and up-and-coming scientists who have identified new and defined approaches to improve diagnostics or therapeutics for Lyme disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Monday 12 July 2021
To examine the association between electrocardiographic (ECG) evidence of carditis at the time of Lyme disease evaluation and a diagnosis of Lyme disease. (Source: The Journal of Pediatrics)
Saturday 10 July 2021
Several ungulate species are feeding and propagation hosts for the tick Ixodes ricinus as well as hosts to a wide range of zoonotic pathogens. Here, we focus on Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi ... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Friday 9 July 2021
This updated toolkit provides background information on ticks, Lyme disease risk, how to improve awareness of ticks and mitigate against tick-borne diseases through the promotion of Public Health England's key message which is to'be tick aware'. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Wednesday 7 July 2021
This study is the first report on in vitro susceptibility of isolates from Serbia to antimicrobial agents and the first report on susceptibility of larger number of isolates of potentially pathogenic species B. lusitaniae. We showed that antimicrobial agents in vitro inhibit growth of borrelia strains very effectively, indicating the potential of their equally beneficial use in the treatment of Lyme borreliosis.PMID:34232906 | DOI:10.1556/030.2021.01441 (Source: Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica)
Monday 5 July 2021
Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Published online: 05 July 2021; doi:10.1038/s41584-021-00648-5Lyme arthritis, a manifestation of Lyme disease, can sometimes persist in a chronic post-infectious disease. In this Review, the authors argue that post-infectious Lyme arthritis could act as a model to improve understanding of other forms of chronic arthritis. (Source: Nature Reviews Rheumatology)
Friday 2 July 2021
App Helps Screen for Autism Spectrum Disorder Step It Up! : Get Active for Your Health Disruptive Leg Movement? : Managing Restless Legs Syndrome Protect Yourself From Lyme Disease Noisy Planet (Source: NIH News in Health)
Thursday 1 July 2021
Conclusions: Seroprevalence and incidence of B. burgdorferi among healthy male professional football players are low. Therefore, infections with B. burgdorferi have to be regarded a rare differential diagnosis in professional football in Central Europe. The low confirmation rate of positive screening assays points to an unspecific immune activation. (Source: Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine)
Thursday 1 July 2021
A 50-year-old woman presents with left eye redness and headaches. Her best-corrected visual acuity is 20/20 OD and 20/25 OS. On examination, her left eye has 2 temporal scleral nodules with surrounding hyperemia and no scleromalacia. Laboratory test results show elevated levels of rheumatoid factor and C-reactive protein, and Lyme IgG, IgM, and reflex Western blot assays are positive for antibodies. Further testing shows she is negative for rheumatoid arthritis-associated nodular scleritis; however, new scleral thinning with persistence of the scleral nodules is noted. What would you do next? (Source: JAMA Ophthalmology)
Thursday 1 July 2021
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common vector-borne disease in Europe. Monitoring changes in the prevalence of different Borrelia species in ticks may be an important indicator of risk assessment and of differe... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Thursday 1 July 2021
We present a case of a patient who suffered from serious complications associated with the treatment of “chronic Lyme disease.” Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is characterized by dermatological, rheumatological, neurological, and/or cardiac manifestations responsive to antimicrobial therapy. “chronic Lyme disease”, by contrast, is a term used to describe a constellation of subjective symptoms, often without clinical or serological evidence of previous Lyme disease. (Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings)
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2021 Jun 30:AEM0064121. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00641-21. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe microbiome of blood-sucking arthropods can shape their competence to acquire and maintain infections with vector-borne pathogens. We used a controlled study to investigate the interactions between Borrelia afzelii, which causes Lyme disease in Europe, and the bacterial microbiome of Ixodes ricinus, its primary tick vector. We applied a surface sterilization treatment to I. ricinus eggs to produce dysbiosed tick larvae that had a much lower bacterial abundance and a changed bacterial microbiome compared to the control larvae. Dysbiosed and control larvae were fed on B. afzelii-infected mice and uninfected control mice and the engorged larvae were left to molt into nymphs, which were ...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
We examined trends in reported cases during a 25-year period to describe changes in the populations most affected by Lyme disease in the United States. We examined demographic characteristics of people with confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1992-2016 through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We grouped cases into 5-year periods (1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016). We calculated the average annual incidence by age and sex and used incidence rate ratios (IRRs) to describe changes in Lyme disease incidence by age and sex over time. We converted patient age at time of illness into patient birth year to ascertain disease patterns according to birth cohorts. The incidence of Lyme disease in th...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the need for higher awareness of the risk of Lyme borreliosis in urban residents, because the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is growing independently of the place of residence. Prompt measures to prevent tick bites and appropriate education are urgently needed.PMID:34184511 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/121056 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Sunday 27 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2021Source: Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and StrabismusAuthor(s): Aisling Brigid McGlacken-Byrne, Clare McCloskey, Arie Fisher, Paul Mullaney (Source: Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)
Saturday 26 June 2021
We present new evidence for maternal transfer of oral vaccine induced neutralizing anti-OspA IgG antibodies to mouse pups mainly through ingestion of colostrum. We found a strong statistical correlation of antibody transfer between mothers that produced the most robust IgG response to OspA and their respective pups. OspA-specific antibody was detected as early as 24 h after birth and protective levels of antibodies lasted until ~5 weeks of age in the majority of pups but persisted in some mice until 9 weeks. This was further supported by detection of neutralizing antibodies in serum of all pups at 2-3 weeks after birth and in some offspring adult mice at 9 weeks of age. A clear association was found between robust antibody responses in mothers and the length of time antibody persisted in t...
Thursday 24 June 2021
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
(Source: Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface)
Tuesday 22 June 2021
La enfermedad de Lyme est á proliferando. ¿Cómo puede prevenirla? ¿Cuáles son los síntomas y qué debe hacer si cree haberla contraído? (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
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Thursday 17 June 2021
No abstract available (Source: Nursing Made Incredibly Easy)
Thursday 17 June 2021
At my animal hospital in upstate New York, an epicenter of the U.S. tick epidemic, my dog Fawn lets out a whimper as the veterinarian injects her with her annual Lyme disease shot. I roll my eyes. She doesn’t know how good she has it. The injection means that if a tick bites her (and in rural New York, a tick always does), the creepy crawly will feast on dog blood that’s been supercharged with a Lyme bacteria-killing substance, and Lyme disease won’t be transmitted to Fawn. I wish I could be shot up with that superpower. Currently, there is no human vaccine for Lyme disease—even though more than two decades ago, people could get a safe and effective preventative shot similar to Fawn’s. Now, thanks to potent anti-vaccine pushback, all we can do is try to avoid ...
Wednesday 16 June 2021
Neuroborreliosis is a rare cause of cerebral vasculitis and stroke. The incidence of Lyme borreliosis in Finland has been increasing in the last 20 years, so we expect that Lyme neuroborreliosis–associated vasculitis can be a more common cause of stroke in the future. (Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
Monday 14 June 2021
Dr Paul Auwaerter highlights the major changes in this guideline, which was a collaboration of the IDSA, AAN, and ACR.Medscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Monday 14 June 2021
Recent guidance from several specialty societies can answers many patients'questions and aid clinical decision-making regarding tick bites.Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Sunday 13 June 2021
We present a case of a man in his 60s with a three-week history of progressive targetoid plaques on his arms, legs, and trunk. Skin biopsy demonstrated interstitial granuloma annulare. Additional testing revealed IgM antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi on western blot suggesting interstitial granuloma annulare was precipitated by the recent infection. Lyme disease is an uncommonly reported association with interstitial granuloma annulare.PMID:34118818 | DOI:10.5070/D327553618 (Source: Dermatol Online J)
Friday 11 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2021Source: Journal of Emergency NursingAuthor(s): Jose Baez, Heidi Suffoletto (Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing)
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Friday 11 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 10 June 2021Source: IDCasesAuthor(s): Shantel Brissett, Khaing T. Myint, Yanira Lopez, Farbod Raiszadeh, Vel Sivapalan, Damian Kurian (Source: IDCases)
Friday 11 June 2021
The blood-sucking critters are capable of thriving along the western coast, according to new research. Though experts don't exactly know how they're picking up the bacteria that causes the illness.(Image credit: James Gathany/AP) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Friday 11 June 2021
We present a case of a man in his 60s with a three-week history of progressive targetoid plaques on his arms, legs, and trunk. Skin biopsy demonstrated interstitial granuloma annulare. Additional testing revealed IgM antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi on western blot suggesting interstitial granuloma annulare was precipitated by the recent infection. Lyme disease is an uncommonly reported association with interstitial granuloma annulare. (Source: Dermatology Online Journal)
Friday 11 June 2021
This article discusses a case involving a pediatric patient who presented to a large urban children's hospital in the Northeastern United States with complaints of migratory monoarticular joint swelling. The patient had presented with a swollen and painful left knee but with no other associated symptoms. He was nontoxic appearing, afebrile, and had normal vital signs. On examination, he was noted to have a tender and swollen left knee that was not erythematous, bruised, or warm to the touch. There was a history of fevers over the summer after returning home from a camping trip in a park located in the Northeastern United States. (Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN)
Thursday 10 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 10 June 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Katherine A. Wolcott, Gabriele Margos, Volker Fingerle, Noémie S. Becker (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Thursday 10 June 2021
ConclusionsElevated GAP-43 expression is a potential marker for LNB that may be useful for diagnosis or treatment. (Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology)
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Monday 7 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Jennifer L. Sidge, Erik S. Foster, Danielle E. Buttke, Andrias Hojgaard, Christine B. Graham, Jean I. Tsao (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Sunday 6 June 2021
Lyme disease-carrying ticks usually found in woodlands and fields are spreading along California's beaches, carried by an unknown host. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
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Sunday 6 June 2021
Publication date: Available online 4 June 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Paula Gyllemark, Peter Wilhelmsson, Camilla Elm, Dieuwertje Hoornstra, Joppe W. Hovius, Marcus Johansson, Ivar Tjernberg, Per-Eric Lindgren, Anna J. Henningsson, Johanna Sjöwall (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Sunday 6 June 2021
Publication date: May 2021Source: Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, Volume 34, Issue 5Author(s): Qin HAO, Hui Xin LIU, Xue Xia HOU, Lin ZHANG, Xiao Na YANG, Kang Lin WAN (Source: Biomedical and Environmental Sciences)
Friday 4 June 2021
From what to do when a patient presents with a tick, to which antibiotic to select for treatment.Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) associated to ticks are among the most important health issues affecting dogs. In Italy, Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma spp., Rickettsia conorii and Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) ha... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Tuesday 1 June 2021
Disrupting transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex (B. burgdorferi) from infected ticks to humans is one strategy to prevent the significant morbidity from Lyme disease. We have previously shown that an anti-OspA human mAb, 2217, prevents transmission of B. burgdorferi from infected ticks in animal models. Maintenance of a protective plasma concentration of a human mAb for tick season presents a significant challenge for a preexposure prophylaxis strategy. Here, we describe the optimization of mAb 2217 by amino acid substitutions (2217LS: M428L and N434S) in the Fc domain. The LS mutation led to a 2-fold increase in half-life in cynomolgus monkeys. In a rhesus macaque model, 2217LS protected animals from tick transmission of spirochetes at a dose of 3 mg/kg. Crystallographi...
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Tuesday 1 June 2021
Date: July 12, 2021 Issue #: 1628Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommend using insect repellents to prevent infections transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks. Insect repellents applied to exposed skin should be used in conjunction with other preventive measures such as wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts and avoiding outdoor activities during peak mosquito-biting times. Mosquitoes can transmit diseasecausing pathogens, including Zika, chikungunya, dengue, West Nile, eastern equine encephalitis, and yellow fever viruses, and the malaria parasite. Ticks can transmit the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the rickettsia that cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and viruses such as Powassa...
Tuesday 1 June 2021
CONCLUSION: In P66 of 59 Chinese strains, polymorphisms were widely distributed. More importantly, the P66 amino acid sequences of B.g strains had a certain regional character. One of the characteristics of Xinjiang B.g isolates might be the variation at the 508aa location in 15 Xinjiang B.g strains, which may be related to the strains' pathogenicity in this area.PMID:34059173 | DOI:10.3967/bes2021.048 (Source: Biomedical and Environmental Sciences : BES)
Saturday 29 May 2021
The disease is most often caused by the tiny parasites and transmitted to humans in warmer months by deer ticks — the same ones that spread Lyme disease. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Saturday 29 May 2021
Various tick-borne infections like borreliosis and rickettsiosis pose a health risk to humans in many parts of the world. We investigated seroprevalence of and seroconversion to Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsi... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Saturday 29 May 2021
Tick-borne pathogens other than Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato – the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis – are common in Ixodes ricinus ticks. How often these pathogens cause human disease is unknown. In additio... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Friday 28 May 2021
Don Murry Grubbs, from White House, Tennessee was diagnosed with two tick-borne illnesses - Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - after being bitten by two different ticks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 27 May 2021
ConclusionsThe majority of our RA patients hadPc immune responses. The correlation of IgAPc antibodies, particularly toPc-p27, with ACPA supports the hypothesis that specific microbial antigens in the mucosa have a role in shaping or amplifying immune responses in RA joints. (Source: Arthritis and Rheumatology)
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Tuesday 25 May 2021
(Source: ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research)
Tuesday 25 May 2021
The former “Bachelorette” winner has Lyme disease that was triggered by high levels of mold in his body, he shared on wife Trista... (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Tuesday 25 May 2021
This study investigates cyaB expression along with its influence on borrelial virulence regulation and mammalian infectivity. Expression of cyaB was specifically induced with co-incubation of mammalian host cells that was not observed with cultivated tick cells suggesting that cyaB expression is influenced by cellular factor(s) unique to mammalian cell lines. The 3′ end of cyaB also encodes a small RNA, SR0623, in the same orientation that overlaps with bb0722. The differential processing of cyaB and SR0623 transcripts may alter the ability to influence function in the form of virulence determinant regulation and infectivity. Two independent cyaB deletion B31 strains were generated in 5A4-NP1 and ML23 backgrounds and complemented with the cyaB ORF alone that truncates SR0623, cyaB with i...
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Phys Ther. 2021 May 17:pzab128. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzab128. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe most commonly reported vector-borne and tick-borne disease (TBD) in the United States is Lyme disease. Individuals with Lyme disease may present with a wide array of symptoms with resultant musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiac manifestations that may cause them to seek physical therapist services. The symptoms may develop insidiously and with a variable presentation among individuals. Many persons with Lyme disease do not recall a tick bite or present with an erythema migrans rash, which is considered pathognomonic for the disease. Even if they do, they may fail to associate either with their symptoms, making the diagnosis elusive. It is important to diagnose patients early in the disease proc...
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Conclusions: The changes in kinematics and dynamics of HMEC-1 cells exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi (MOI= 200 bacteria/cell) at early times post-infection are associated with changes in innate immune signaing of the host cells. At later times post-infection were these changes in gene expression are not present anymore, host cell kinematics and dynamics are identical between infected and uninfected cells. Thus it is possible that innate immune singaling might be underlying the changes that host cells undergo in their motion and traction forces at early infection. (Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus)
Monday 17 May 2021
Relapsing fever (RF), caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, is a globally distributed, vector-borne disease with high prevalence in developing countries. To date, signaling pathways required for infection and virulence of RF Borrelia spirochetes are unknown. Cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP), synthesized by diadenylate cyclases (DACs), is a second messenger predominantly found in Gram-positive organisms that is linked to virulence and essential physiological processes. Although Borrelia is Gram-negative, it encodes one DAC (CdaA), and its importance remains undefined. To investigate the contribution of c-di-AMP signaling in the RF bacterium Borrelia turicatae, a cdaA mutant was generated. The mutant was significantly attenuated during murine infection, and genetic complementation reversed th...
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Monday 17 May 2021
Macrophages play prominent roles in bacteria recognition and clearance, including Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the Lyme disease spirochete. To elucidate mechanisms by which MyD88/TLR signaling enhances clearance of... (Source: BMC Immunology)
Friday 14 May 2021
We describe a 49-year-old woman with erosive genital ulcerations, secondary EM rashes and jagged skin lesions associated with Lyme disease. The skin rashes exhibited fibers characteristic of Morgellons disease. Molecular testing confirmed the presence of Borrelia DNA in both vaginal culture and serum specimens. In further studies on a secondary EM lesion containing filaments, Gömöri trichrome staining revealed the presence of collagen in the filaments, while Dieterle and anti-Borrelia immunostaining revealed intracellular and extracellular Borrelia organisms. Intracellular staining for Borrelia was also observed in lymphocytic infiltrates. Lyme disease may present with a variety of genital lesions and dermatological manifestations including Morgellons disease. Careful evaluation is requi...
Friday 14 May 2021
Biochem J. 2021 May 14;478(9):1783-1794. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20200915.ABSTRACTTicks and the pathogens they transmit, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths, constitute a growing burden for human and animal health worldwide. The ability of some animal species to acquire resistance to blood-feeding by ticks after a single or repeated infestation is known as acquired tick resistance (ATR). This resistance has been associated to tick-specific IgE response, the generation of skin-resident memory CD4+ T cells, basophil recruitment, histamine release, and epidermal hyperplasia. ATR has also been associated with protection to tick-borne tularemia through allergic klendusity, a disease-escaping ability produced by the development of hypersensitivity to an allergen. In addition to pathogen...
Friday 14 May 2021
Biochem J. 2021 May 14;478(9):1783-1794. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20200915.ABSTRACTTicks and the pathogens they transmit, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths, constitute a growing burden for human and animal health worldwide. The ability of some animal species to acquire resistance to blood-feeding by ticks after a single or repeated infestation is known as acquired tick resistance (ATR). This resistance has been associated to tick-specific IgE response, the generation of skin-resident memory CD4+ T cells, basophil recruitment, histamine release, and epidermal hyperplasia. ATR has also been associated with protection to tick-borne tularemia through allergic klendusity, a disease-escaping ability produced by the development of hypersensitivity to an allergen. In addition to pathogen...
Friday 14 May 2021
We describe a 49-year-old woman with erosive genital ulcerations, secondary EM rashes and jagged skin lesions associated with Lyme disease. The skin rashes exhibited fibers characteristic of Morgellons disease. Molecular testing confirmed the presence of Borrelia DNA in both vaginal culture and serum specimens. In further studies on a secondary EM lesion containing filaments, Gömöri trichrome staining revealed the presence of collagen in the filaments, while Dieterle and anti-Borrelia immunostaining revealed intracellular and extracellular Borrelia organisms. Intracellular staining for Borrelia was also observed in lymphocytic infiltrates. Lyme disease may present with a variety of genital lesions and dermatological manifestations including Morgellons disease. Careful evaluation is requi...
Friday 14 May 2021
Biochem J. 2021 May 14;478(9):1783-1794. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20200915.ABSTRACTTicks and the pathogens they transmit, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths, constitute a growing burden for human and animal health worldwide. The ability of some animal species to acquire resistance to blood-feeding by ticks after a single or repeated infestation is known as acquired tick resistance (ATR). This resistance has been associated to tick-specific IgE response, the generation of skin-resident memory CD4+ T cells, basophil recruitment, histamine release, and epidermal hyperplasia. ATR has also been associated with protection to tick-borne tularemia through allergic klendusity, a disease-escaping ability produced by the development of hypersensitivity to an allergen. In addition to pathogen...
Thursday 13 May 2021
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2021 May 12;85(2):e00217-20. doi: 10.1128/MMBR.00217-20. Print 2021 May 19.ABSTRACTSUMMARYThe Borrelia spp. are tick-borne pathogenic spirochetes that include the agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever. As part of their life cycle, the spirochetes traffic between the tick vector and the vertebrate host, which requires significant physiological changes and remodeling of their outer membranes and proteome. This crucial proteome resculpting is carried out by a diverse set of proteases, adaptor proteins, and related chaperones. Despite its small genome, Borrelia burgdorferi has dedicated a large percentage of its genome to proteolysis, including a full complement of ATP-dependent proteases. Energy-driven proteolysis appears to be an important physiological feature o...
Thursday 13 May 2021
(University of Maryland) The University of Maryland (UMD) received funding from the Steven& Alexandra Cohen Foundation to develop novel therapeutic strategies to stop infection from Lyme disease pathogens before it begins. Unlike traditional antibiotics that attack the pathogen directly and put it on the defensive, UMD is exploring antimicrobials that would interfere with the pathogen on a biomolecular level to inhibit it from causing an infection in the first place. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 11 May 2021
Purpose of review Neurosyphilis (NS) and Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) are spirochetal diseases with distinct clinical manifestations. The diagnosis of NS remains challenging due to imperfect diagnostic criteria and testing modalities. With LNB, misconceptions about diagnosis and treatment lead to considerable morbidity and drug related adverse effects. Recent findings Although studies continue investigating alternate approaches and new diagnostic tests for NS, few data exist to change current approaches to diagnosis, management or follow up. In the diagnosis of LNB, the chemokine CXCL13 shows promising diagnostic accuracy. A systematic review discourages the use of cell-based assays when investigating Lyme disease. Clinical studies show no benefit from extended antibiotic treatme...
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Tuesday 11 May 2021
AbstractWe assessed the prevalence of Lyme neuroborreliosis in children with acute facial nerve palsy in a Lyme-endemic region and patient characteristics associated with this. All children visiting one of three participating hospitals between January 2010 and December 2016 were included in the study. Of 104 children referred to the hospital with facial nerve palsy, 43% had Lyme neuroborreliosis and 57% idiopathic facial palsy. Characteristics significantly associated with Lyme neuroborreliosis were headache (55% versus 18%), meningeal irritation (21% versus 5%), presentation in summer months (69% versus 37%), and a previous tick bite (33% versus 7%). (Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
Monday 10 May 2021
ConclusionIn this exploratory cohort study, we found lower or similar concentrations of circulating cytokines in blood from patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis at time of diagnosis compared with references. The stimulated cytokine release in blood from patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis was in general slightly lower than in the references. Specific patterns of low IL-12 and IFN-γ indicated low Th1-response and low concentrations of IL-17A did not support a strong Th17 response. Our results suggest that patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis elicit a slightly suppressed or impaired immune response for the investigated stimulations, however, whether the response normalizes remains unanswered. (Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology)
Monday 10 May 2021
In this report, we describe the use of multiple molecular detection techniques for this pathogen and its application to a case study of a Lyme disease patient. The patient had a history of Lyme disease, was treated with antibiotics, and years later developed chronic symptoms including dementia. The patient's pathology and clinical case description was consistent with Lewy body dementia. B. burgdorferi was identified by PCR in several CNS tissues and by immunofluorescent staining in the spinal cord. These studies offer proof of the principle that persistent infection with the Lyme disease spirochete may have lingering consequences on the CNS. (Source: Frontiers in Neurology)
Monday 10 May 2021
by Lucy D. Guarnieri, Sara E. McBride, Eleanor Groden, Allison M. Gardner The blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the invasive European fire ant (Myrmica rubra) are both expanding throughout their sympatric range in coastal New England.Ixodes scapularis is the primary vector of the bacteriumBorrelia burgdorferi, which is the causative agent of Lyme disease, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, home to Acadia National Park, currently is affected by a high Lyme disease burden. Ticks have many natural predators, including ants, although no previous studies have investigated interactions between these two species. To test the hypothesis that the presence ofM.rubra altersI.scapularis abundance, we collected ticks by drag-sampling at eight ant-infested sites and eight uninfested control sites i...
Sunday 9 May 2021
LYME DISEASE is an infection spread by ticks and is potentially life-threatening. How common is lyme disease in the UK? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Saturday 8 May 2021
Trends Parasitol. 2021 May 4:S1471-4922(21)00084-2. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.04.004. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIxodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus are the predominant vectors of multiple human pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, one of the causative agents of Lyme disease in North America. Differences in the habitats and host preferences of these closely related tick species present an opportunity to examine key aspects of the tick microbiome. While advances in sequencing technologies have accelerated a descriptive understanding of the tick microbiome, molecular and mechanistic insights into the tick microbiome are only beginning to emerge. Progress is stymied by technical difficulties in manipulating the microbiome and by biological variables related to the life cycle of Ixodi...
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Saturday 8 May 2021
This winter was one of the warmest on record, and lingering summer heat could add weeks of outdoor activity to animals that carry ticks, which thrive in hot, humid conditions. (Source: WebMD Health)
Saturday 8 May 2021
For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks -- typically associated with woodlands in New England and other forested regions of the US -- have been found in abundance near beaches in Northern California, new research shows.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Lucas Schorter, Reinhard K. Straubinger (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 4 May 2021
ConclusionsThe current report presents a unique case of recurrent bilateral chorioretinitis with positive Lyme serology and raises the question of the existence of true Lyme-associated uveitis. (Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports)
Tuesday 4 May 2021
Children with acute peripheral facial nerve palsy cannot yet be recommended corticosteroid treatment based on evidence. Adults with idiopathic facial nerve palsy are treated with corticosteroids, according to ... (Source: BMC Pediatrics)
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Monday 3 May 2021
Bull Math Biol. 2021 May 3;83(6):66. doi: 10.1007/s11538-021-00896-2.ABSTRACTWe use mathematical modelling to examine how microbial strain communities are structured by the host specialisation traits and antigenic relationships of their members. The model is quite general and broadly applicable, but we focus on Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacterium, transmitted by ticks to mice and birds. In this system, host specialisation driven by the evasion of innate immunity has been linked to multiple niche polymorphism, while antigenic differentiation driven by the evasion of adaptive immunity has been linked to negative frequency dependence. Our model is composed of two host species, one vector, and multiple co-circulating pathogen strains that vary in their host specificity and their a...
Friday 30 April 2021
Br J Gen Pract. 2021 Apr 29;71(706):204. doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X715661. Print 2021 May.NO ABSTRACTPMID:33926886 | DOI:10.3399/bjgp21X715661 (Source: The British Journal of General Practice)
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Thursday 29 April 2021
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Apr 30;70(17):612-616. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7017a2.ABSTRACTThe incidence of tickborne diseases in the United States is increasing; reported cases more than doubled from >22,000 in 2004 to >48,000 in 2016 (1). Ticks are responsible for approximately 95% of all locally acquired vectorborne diseases reported by states and the District of Columbia, with Lyme disease accounting for >80% of those cases (2). After a tick bite, persons might seek care at an emergency department (ED) for tick removal and to receive postexposure prophylaxis, which has been shown to effectively prevent Lyme disease when taken within 72 hours of a high-risk bite (3). Using data from CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), investigators examined ED tick bite visits...
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Wednesday 28 April 2021
Praxis (Bern 1994). 2021 Apr;110(6):299-300. doi: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003666.ABSTRACT Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in Switzerland and Lyme arthritis the most prevalent manifestation of late-stage Lyme disease. It presents as a monoarthitis or oligoarthritis in large joints, often involving the knee. Such a clinical presentation, together with positive Lyme serologies or polymerase chain reactions from synovial fluid/tissue, is considered diagnostic. If there is no tick bite or erythema migrans in the patient's history the diagnosis can be challenging due to the many differential diagnoses. The initial treatment is a prolonged course of oral antibiotics.PMID:33906447 | DOI:10.1024/1661-8157/a003666 (Source: Praxis)
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Tuesday 27 April 2021
New research into the symptom heterogeneity of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease may serve as a framework to create targeted interventions or novel treatments for these patients. (Source: The Rheumatologist)
Monday 26 April 2021
In Northern California, the proportion of ticks infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi was the same in shrubland along beaches as in woodland habitats. (Source: The Scientist)
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Monday 26 April 2021
Conclusion Approximately 10% of all cases of extrapulmonary TB have osteoarticular involvement. Dactylitis is a variant of tuberculous osteomyelitis affecting the long bones of the hands and feet. It occurs mainly in young children; however adults may be affected also. The first manifestation is usually pai nless swelling of the diaphysis of the affected bone followed by trophic changes in the skin. The radiographic changes are known as spina ventosa, because of the ballooned out appearance of the bone, although this was not seen in our case. Fibrous dysplasia, congenital syphilis, sarcoidosis and sick le cell anaemia may induce similar radiographic changes in the metaphysis of long bones of hands and feet, but do not cause soft tissue swelling or periosteal reaction. This case highlight...
Sunday 25 April 2021
"I don’t think we were expecting to find many ticks, but we did, and we found heaps of ticks in big numbers. And they’re infected with diseases," the study's lead author said. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Saturday 24 April 2021
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2021 Apr 23:AEM.00319-21. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00319-21. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTick-borne diseases in California include Lyme disease (caused by Borrelia burgdorferi), infections with Borrelia miyamotoi, and human granulocytic anaplasmosis (caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum). We surveyed multiple sites and habitats (woodland, grassland, coastal chaparral) in California to describe spatial patterns of tick-borne pathogen prevalence in western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus). We found that several species of Borrelia - B. burgdorferi , B. americana and B. bissettiae - were observed in habitats such as coastal chaparral that does not harbor obvious reservoir host candidates. Describing tick-borne pathogen prevalence is strongly influenced by the scale of su...
Thursday 22 April 2021
In this study, we aimed to analyze its geographical distribution and associated pathogens. Data were collected from multiple sources, including a field survey, reference book, and literature review. We searched various electronic databases with the terms “Dermacentor silvarum” OR “D. silvarum” for studies published since 1963 and the positive rates for Dermacentor silvarum-associated pathogens were estimated by meta-analysis. D. silvarum was found only in four countries in Eurasia, ranging from 22° N to 57° N latitude. At least 20 human pathogens were associated with D. silvarum, including five species of spotted fever group rickettsiae, three species in the family of Anaplasmataceae, three genospecies in the complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Francisella tularensis, Babesi...
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Wednesday 21 April 2021
Date: May 17, 2021 Issue #: 1624Summary: Lyme disease in the US is caused by the spirocheteBorrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans byIxodes scapularis (blacklegged [deer] tick) andI. pacificus (western blacklegged tick). Most cases of Lyme disease occur in late spring and early summer in northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, the upper Midwest, and in northern California.B. mayonii, which is also transmitted byI. scapularis, has been shown to cause a similar illness in the upper Midwest. (Source: The Medical Letter)
Monday 19 April 2021
Early stage Lyme-associated erythema migrans most commonly manifests with a “targetoid” appearance. However, several erythema migrans variants have been reported, which may result in misidentification and delayed diagnosis and treatment. This case series presents a rare variant of bullous erythema migrans. Case 1: A 54-year-old woman presented with a worsening lesion on her leg. She reported a sudden onset of stinging in the area while walking outdoors. A darkening vesiculobullous rash appeared soon after. (Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology)
Monday 19 April 2021
Lyme disease is a multi-system disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) bacterium, which typically affects the skin, heart, nervous, and musculoskeletal system. Most individuals characteristically develop erythema migrans after exposure to Lyme disease, which presents differently in Skin of Color populations. Previous studies have noted there is an increased need for racial diversity in Lyme-related dermatological education in order to provide patients with timely care. We sought to compare the baseline characteristics and inpatient financial burden of Lyme disease between White and Non-White patients. (Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology)
Friday 16 April 2021
Publication date: Available online 14 April 2021Source: The Veterinary JournalAuthor(s): A.C. Camire, A.L. Hatke, V.L. King, J. Millership, D.M. Ritter, N. Sobell, A. Weber, R.T. Marconi (Source: The Veterinary Journal)
Thursday 15 April 2021
Promising data show that a viral gene in the Lyme disease-causing bacteria can distinguish between early and late infection.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Rheumatology Headlines)
Wednesday 14 April 2021
Praxis (Bern 1994). 2021 Apr;110(5):231-236. doi: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003665.ABSTRACTCME: Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Lyme Disease Abstract. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in Switzerland and Lyme arthritis the most prevalent manifestation of late-stage Lyme disease. It presents as a monoarthitis or oligoarthritis in large joints, often involving the knee. Such a clinical presentation, together with positive Lyme serologies or polymerase chain reactions from synovial fluid/tissue, is considered diagnostic. If there is no tick bite or erythema migrans in the patient's history the diagnosis can be challenging due to the many differential diagnoses. The initial treatment is a prolonged course of oral antibiotics.PMID:33849286 | DOI:10.1024/1661-8157/a003665 (Source: ...
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Tuesday 13 April 2021
Publication date: Available online 13 April 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Vardayani Ratti, Jonathan M. Winter, Dorothy I. Wallace (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 13 April 2021
CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study describing that innate and Th1/Th17 adaptive immunity play a crucial role in BB disease. Furthermore, innate mediators are particularly important in acute BB disease, and TNF-α is associated with evolution of BB symptoms.PMID:33848504 | DOI:10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101575 (Source: Braz J Infect Dis)
Saturday 10 April 2021
Publication date: Available online 9 April 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Yekaterina O. Ostapchuk, Yuliya V. Perfilyeva, Andrey V. Zhigailov, Elina R. Maltseva, Alena S. Neupokoyeva, Akerke O. Bissenbay, Zhanna A. Berdygulova, Dinara A. Naizabayeva, Anna S. Nizkorodova, Zhanna Zh. Shapiyeva, Ravilya A. Yegemberdiyeva, Tatyana V. Kuznetsova, Saltanat Kuatbekova, Assiya Akanova, Gulnara A. Ismagulova, Seidigapbar M. Mamadaliyev, Andrey M. Dmitrovskiy, Yuriy A. Skiba (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
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Sunday 4 April 2021
Vaccine. 2021 Mar 31:S0264-410X(21)00363-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.03.059. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCurrently there is no human vaccine against Lyme borreliosis, and most research focuses on recombinant protein vaccines, as such a vaccine has been proven to be successful in the past. The expression of recombinant antigens in meningococcal Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs), with the OMV functioning both as adjuvant and delivery vehicle, greatly enhances their potential. Immunization studies in mice have shown that OMV-based vaccines can protect against various pathogens and an OMV-based meningococcal vaccine is approved and available for human use. Because of its surface localization in Borrelia and the detailed knowledge regarding its immunogenicity and structure, OspA was chosen as...
Friday 2 April 2021
Publication date: Available online 1 April 2021Source: Joint Bone SpineAuthor(s): Guillaume Coiffier, Pierre Tattevin (Source: Joint Bone Spine)
Friday 2 April 2021
In this study, a total of 103 dog blood samples were collected from two animal shelters in central Peninsular Malaysia and tested for the antibodies against Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the antigen of Dirofilaria immitis. Of the 103 tested dogs, 44.7% (46) were found to be seropositive for Ehrlichia spp., 30.1% (31) for Anaplasma spp. and 13.6% (14) for D. immitis. Co-infections of Anaplasma spp. + Ehrlichia spp. (18.5%, 19) were most prevalent, followed by Anaplasma spp. + D. immitis (1.9%; two) and D. immitis + Ehrlichia spp. (1.0%; one). Furthermore, three dogs (2.9%) were also found to have triple infection, testing seropositive for Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp. and D. immitis. The dogs which were found to be seropositive with at least one pathogen were 66...
Friday 2 April 2021
In this study, we selected four representative tick species which have different regional distribution foci in mainland China. i.e., Dermacentor marginatus, Dermacentor silvarum, Haemaphysalis longicornis and Ixodes granulatus. We used the MaxEnt model to identify the key environmental factors of tick occurrence and map their potential distributions in 2050 under four combined climate and socioeconomic scenarios (i.e., SSP1-RCP2.6, SSP2-RCP4.5, SSP3-RCP7.0 and SSP5-RCP8.5). We found that the extent of the urban fabric, cropland and forest, temperature annual range and precipitation of the driest month were the main determinants of the potential distributions of the four tick species. Under the combined scenarios, with climate warming, the potential distributions of ticks shifted to further...
Friday 2 April 2021
In this study, a total of 103 dog blood samples were collected from two animal shelters in central Peninsular Malaysia and tested for the antibodies against Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the antigen of Dirofilaria immitis. Of the 103 tested dogs, 44.7% (46) were found to be seropositive for Ehrlichia spp., 30.1% (31) for Anaplasma spp. and 13.6% (14) for D. immitis. Co-infections of Anaplasma spp. + Ehrlichia spp. (18.5%, 19) were most prevalent, followed by Anaplasma spp. + D. immitis (1.9%; two) and D. immitis + Ehrlichia spp. (1.0%; one). Furthermore, three dogs (2.9%) were also found to have triple infection, testing seropositive for Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp. and D. immitis. The dogs which were found to be seropositive with at least one pathogen were 66...
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Thursday 1 April 2021
CONCLUSIONS: People with persistent post-Lyme treatment symptoms report debilitating symptoms and functional impairments which must be considered in clinical care.PMID:33789412 (Source: Pain Physician)
Tuesday 30 March 2021
(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) With a $16 million gift from the Steven& Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Columbia will open a center for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases this summer, offering patients specialized care and expanding research at a national level. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 24 March 2021
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Anna T. Nesgos, Laura C. Harrington, Emily M. Mader (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
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Wednesday 24 March 2021
Microb Ecol. 2021 Mar 23. doi: 10.1007/s00248-021-01738-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExposure to environmental stressors, an increasingly recurring event in natural communities due to anthropogenic-induced environmental change, profoundly impacts disease emergence and spread. One mechanism through which this occurs is through stress-induced immunosuppression increasing disease susceptibility, prevalence, intensity and reactivation in hosts. We experimentally evaluated how exposure to stressors affected both the physiology of avian hosts and the prevalence of the zoonotic bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), in two model species-the blackbird Turdus merula and the robin Erithacus rubecula captured in the wild, using xenodiagnoses and analysis of skin biopsies and blood. Alth...
Wednesday 24 March 2021
Contributors : Jenny Wachter ; Patti RosaSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Borreliella burgdorferiBorrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, persists in nature through an enzootic cycle consisting of a vertebrate host and an Ixodes tick vector. The sequence motifs modified by two well-characterized restriction/modification loci of B. burgdorferi type strain B31 were recently described, but the methylation profiles of other Lyme disease Borrelia have not been characterized. Herein, the methylomes of B. burgdorferi type strain B31 and 7 clonal derivatives, along with B. burgdorferi N40, B. burgdorferi 297, B. burgdorferi CA-11, B. afzelii PKo, B. afzelii BO23, and B. garinii PBr, were defined through PacBio SMRT sequencing. This anal...
Saturday 20 March 2021
Publication date: April 2021Source: American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Volume 77, Issue 4Author(s): (Source: American Journal of Kidney Diseases)
Thursday 18 March 2021
Conclusions: The Rule of 7’s accurately identified children with meningitis at low-risk for Lyme meningitis for whom clinicians should consider outpatient management while awaiting Lyme disease test results. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Thursday 18 March 2021
In this study, we employed microfluidic tools to probe the interaction between human neutrophils and Bb and measured the activation of human neutrophils in blood samples from patients. We found that neutrophils migrate vigorously toward Bb in the presence of serum, and this process was complement-dependent. Preventing complement factor 5 cleavage or blocking complement receptors decreased neutrophil ’s ability to interact with Bb. We also found that spiking Bb directly into the blood from healthy donors induced spontaneous neutrophil motility. This response to Bb was also complement-dependent. Preventing complement factor 5 cleavage decreased spontaneous neutrophil motility in Bb-spiked blood . Moreover, we found that neutrophils in blood samples from acute LD patients displayed spontane...
Thursday 18 March 2021
by Lin Zhang, Xiong Zhu, Xuexia Hou, Huan Li, Xiaona Yang, Ting Chen, Xiaoying Fu, Guangqing Miao, Qin Hao, Sha Li Lyme disease (LD) is one of the most important vector-borne diseases worldwide. However, there is limited information on the prevalence and risk analysis using correlated factors in the tropical areas. A total of 1583 serum samples, collected from five hospitals of Hainan Province, were tested by immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and western blot (WB) analyses using anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies. Then, we mapped the distribution of positive rate (by IFA) and the spread of confirmed Lyme patients (by WB). Using ArcGIS, we compiled host-vector-human interactions and correlated data as risk factor layers to predict LD risk in Hainan Province. There are three LD hotspots, des...
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Tuesday 16 March 2021
(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) The findings of a recent analysis conducted by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest that ecosystems suitable for harboring ticks that carry debilitating Lyme disease could be more widespread than previously thought in California, Oregon and Washington. Bolstering the research were the efforts of an army of " citizen scientists " who collected and submitted 18,881 ticks over nearly three years. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 15 March 2021
The successful treatment of Lyme disease (LD) is contingent on accurate diagnosis. However, current laboratory detection assays lack sensitivity in the early stages of the disease. Because delayed diagnosis of LD incurs high healthcare costs and great suffering, new highly sensitive tests are in need. To overcome these challenges, we developed an internally controlled quantitative PCR (Ter-qPCR) that targets the multicopy terminase large subunit (terL) gene encoded by prophages that are only found in LD-causing bacteria. The terL protein helps phages pack their DNA. Strikingly, the detection limit of the Ter-qPCR was analytically estimated to be 22 copies and one bacterial cell in bacteria spiked blood. Furthermore, significant quantitative differences was observed in terms of the amount o...
Friday 12 March 2021
Authors: Acharya Park Limited data are available on the current status of Lyme disease in South Korea. The aim of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence and risk factors associated with Lyme disease infection among forestry workers in National Park Offices in South Korea. We enrolled National Park Office forestry workers (NPOFWs) who had worked for ≥1 year. Participants completed questionnaires that addressed various subjects including work types and work hygiene-related factors. Collected serum samples were tested using immunofluorescence assay to detect anti-Borrelia antibodies. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify independent risk factors of seroprevalence. Of 1,410 NPOFWs, 655 (46.5%) participated in this study, and an overall seroprevalence of Ly...
Tuesday 9 March 2021
(TellMed Strategies) Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced the publication of new data finding that five herbal medicines had potent activity compared to commonly-used antibiotics in test tubes against Babesia duncani, a malaria-like parasite found on the West Coast of the U.S. that causes the disease babesiosis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Tuesday 9 March 2021
We report for the first time in Romania the presence of Rickettsia aeschlimannii and Rickettsia felis. Overall, from the infected engorged ticks, 69.2% showcased co-infections. In Ixodes spp., dual co-infections, namely Borrelia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Rickettsia helvetica and A. phagocytophilum were the most prevalent. Given the outcome, we underline the need to establish proper tick-surveillance programs in cities and include co-infections in the management plan of tick-borne diseases in Romania. (Source: Frontiers in Microbiology)
Monday 8 March 2021
CONCLUSION: The results of our study will support public health authorities and decision-makers in targeting those sectors and occupations that are particularly at risk for the acquisition of zoonoses. Doing so will ultimately optimize the public health practices of those responsible for the health of workers.PMID:33679248 | PMC:PMC7919776 | DOI:10.14745/ccdr.v47i01a08 (Source: Can Commun Dis Rep)
Monday 8 March 2021
ConclusionsISSNHL and NISSNHL show no relevant baseline differences. ISSNHL tends to have a higher initial hearing loss. NISSHNL shows a better outcome than ISSNHL. (Source: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)
Monday 8 March 2021
Although widely prevalent, Lyme disease is still under-diagnosed and misunderstood. Here we followed 73 acute Lyme disease patients and uninfected controls over a period of a year. At each visit, RNA-sequencing was applied to profile patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells in addition to extensive clinical phenotyping. Based on the projection of the RNA-seq data into lower dimensions, we observe that the cases are separated from controls, and almost all cases never return to cluster with the controls over time. Enrichment analysis of the differentially expressed genes between clusters identifies up-regulation of immune response genes. This observation is also supported by deconvolution analysis to identify the changes in cell type composition due to Lyme disease infection. Importantly...
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Sunday 7 March 2021
ConclusionsGiven that EM remains a clinical diagnosis, it is essential that both physicians and the general public are aware of its varied manifestations. Our findings suggest possible patterns within this variability, with implications for prompt diagnosis and treatment initiation, as well as an understanding of the clinical spectrum of EM. (Source: Infection)
Saturday 6 March 2021
Conclusions: According to the prevalence of B. garinii and B. afzelii in Europe, previously it was thought that Lyme disease presented as erythema migrans, and less frequently as neuroborreliosis; however, this study revealed that other syndromes may also be seen. In addition, we revealed that the longer it takes for erythema migrans to appear, the greater the likelihood of Lyme arthritis developing.PMID:33669940 | DOI:10.3390/medicina57020184 (Source: Medicina (Kaunas))
Friday 5 March 2021
Lyme borreliosis is a multi-organ disease primarily transmitted by ticks. The condition is endemic in different parts of Europe and North America, and is caused by the spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii. Nervous system manifestations termed Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) are seen in 10 –15% of all borrelia infections in adults. The most common manifestations are meningoradiculitis and cranial neuritis (Summer and Rupprecht, 2019). Rarer neurological complications include brain and spinal cord involvement, cerebral vasculitis and peripheral neuropathies (Moser, Bubel et al. (Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
Thursday 4 March 2021
Child abuse is one of the most common causes for child fatality in the United States. Inaccurate reporting of child abuse combined with scarcity of resources for child abuse evaluations can lead to unintended consequences for children and their families. T... (Source: SafetyLit)
Thursday 4 March 2021
Lyme disease (LD) caused by Borrelia burgdorferi is the most prevalent tick-borne disease. There is evidence that vaccines based on tick proteins that promote tick transmission of B. burgdorferi could prevent LD. (Source: BMC Genomics)
Tuesday 2 March 2021
Blood-feeding arthropods are considered an enormous public health threat. They are vectors of a plethora of infectious agents that cause potentially fatal diseases like Malaria, Dengue fever, Leishmaniasis, and Lyme disease. These vectors shine due to their own physiological idiosyncrasies, but one biological aspect brings them all together: the requirement of blood intake for development and reproduction. It is through blood-feeding that they acquire pathogens and during blood digestion that they summon a collection of multisystemic events critical for vector competence. The literature is focused on how classical immune pathways (Toll, IMD, and JAK/Stat) are elicited throughout the course of vector infection. Still, they are not the sole determinants of host permissiveness. The dramatic c...
Monday 1 March 2021
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Monday 1 March 2021
Tick saliva is a rich source of pharmacologically and immunologically active molecules. These salivary components are indispensable for successful blood feeding on vertebrate hosts and are believed to facilitate the transmission of tick-borne pathogens. Here we present the functional and structural characterization of Iripin-3, a protein expressed in the salivary glands of the tick Ixodes ricinus, a European vector of tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease. Belonging to the serpin superfamily of protease inhibitors, Iripin-3 strongly inhibited the proteolytic activity of serine proteases kallikrein and matriptase. In an in vitro setup, Iripin-3 was capable of modulating the adaptive immune response as evidenced by reduced survival of mouse splenocytes, impaired proliferation of CD4+ T ly...
Friday 26 February 2021
A 49-year-old healthy woman presented with exertional shortness of breath and palpitations of 3 months ’ duration. Baseline electrocardiogram (ECG) was normal. Figure 1 shows selected tracings recorded during treadmill stress testing. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed no structural abnormalities. Cardiac positron emission tomogram showed normal myocardial perfusion and no abnormal fluorodeoxyglu cose uptake. Antibody titers for Lyme disease were undetectable. Figure 2 shows selected tracings from an invasive electrophysiological (EP) study. (Source: Heart Rhythm)
Thursday 25 February 2021
Special 50p coins will feature some of the Jurassic creatures discovered by 19th-century palaeontologistOne of the most terrifying Jurassic sea creatures is to appear on commemorative 50p coins to celebrate the work of thepioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning.The temnodontosaurus coins will shine a light on the 19th-century palaeontologist, who made a series of discoveries near her home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Thursday 25 February 2021
ConclusionA DNA tattoo vaccine against OspC induced high specific IgG titers and provided near total protection against B. burgdorferi ss infection by tick challenge. In contrast, DNA tattoo vaccines against tick proteins TSLPI, Salp15, tHRF, and Tix-5 induced low to moderate IgG titers and did not provide protection. Therefore, DNA tattoo vaccination does not seem a suitable vaccine strategy to identify, or screen for, tick antigens for anti-tick vaccines. However, DNA tattoo vaccination is a straightforward and effective vaccination platform to assess novel B. burgdorferi sl antigen candidates in a relevant tick challenge model. (Source: Frontiers in Immunology)
Wednesday 24 February 2021
This article reviews the pathophysiology, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of a patient with disseminated Lyme disease complicated by doxycycline-induced IIH. (Source: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Publication date: Available online 24 February 2021Source: Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and StrabismusAuthor(s): Frederick M. Wang, Gerald W. Zaidman, Karen B. Onel, Erin Kelleher (Source: Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)
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Wednesday 24 February 2021
The incidence of Lyme borreliosis varies over time and space through as yet incompletely understood mechanisms. In Europe, Lyme borreliosis is caused by infection with a Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) genospecies, w... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Monday 22 February 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Our modified ranges are more suitable for our pediatric population while reducing overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatment, diagnostic uncertainty, and turnaround time.PMID:33617846 | DOI:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.02.005 (Source: Clinical Biochemistry)
Friday 19 February 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Our modified ranges are more suitable for our pediatric population while reducing overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatment, diagnostic uncertainty, and turnaround time. PMID: 33617846 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Biochemistry)
Friday 12 February 2021
Title: What Is Lyme Disease in Humans?Category: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/12/2021 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Friday 12 February 2021
Borrelia-specific antibodies in serum did not contribute to the diagnosis of Borrelia arthritis or Borrelia-associated dermatitis in a young woman with ongoing treatment with rituximab due to multiple sclerosis. The diagnosis was confirmed by the detection of Borrelia-DNA in a skin punch biopsy. The patient history did not reveal any tick exposure. She had suffered for several months from fluctuating pain and swelling of the right knee as well as skin involvement with redness and oedema around the ankle of the same leg. Monoarthritis was confirmed by a rheumatologist. Knee puncture was performed but the synovial fluid was only sufficient for microscopic examination of crystals. Neither monosodium urate crystals nor calcium pyrophosphate crystals were found. Borrelia serology in blood revea...
Friday 12 February 2021
Authors: Pham Underwood Oliva Chávez Ticks are obligate hematophagous parasites and are important vectors of a wide variety of pathogens. These pathogens include spirochetes in the genus Borrelia that cause Lyme disease, rickettsial pathogens, and tick-borne encephalitis virus, among others. Due to their prolonged feeding period of up to two weeks, hard ticks must counteract vertebrate host defense reactions in order to survive and reproduce. To overcome host defense mechanisms, ticks have evolved a large number of pharmacologically active molecules that are secreted in their saliva, which inhibits or modulates host immune defenses and wound healing responses upon injection into the bite site. These bioactive molecules in tick saliva can create a privileged environment in the...
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Sunday 7 February 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Many providers evaluate patients for tick bites and treat patients for Lyme disease, but knowledge about appropriate testing is low. Providers may benefit from tailored education about appropriate Lyme disease diagnosis, testing, and effective tick-bite prevention. PMID: 33541229 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Public Health Reports)
Thursday 4 February 2021
Global synthesis reveals bird traits that promote Lyme and flags high-risk species More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302052&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. (Source: NSF Discoveries)
Thursday 4 February 2021
Lyme borreliosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. In Europe, Lyme borreliosis is predominantly caused by Borrelia afzelii and transmitted by Ixodes ricinus. Although Borrelia behavior throughout tick development is quite well documented, specific molecular interactions between Borrelia and the tick have not been satisfactorily examined. Here, we present the first transcriptomic study focused on the expression of tick midgut genes regulated by Borrelia. By using massive analysis of cDNA ends (MACE), we searched for tick transcripts expressed differentially in the midgut of unfed, 24h-fed, and fully fed I. ricinus nymphs infected with B. afzelii. In total, we identified 553 upregulated and 530 downregulated tick genes and demonstrated ...
Tuesday 2 February 2021
This case report describes the diagnosis and treatment of a pre-pubertal (onset at age 7) Caucasian female with serological evidence of Lyme disease accompanied by multiple neuropsychiatric symptoms 6 months following a vacation in a tick endemic area of the United States. Prior to the diagnosis of Lyme disease, the patient also met the clinical diagnostic criteria for PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep), with serological evidence of three distinct episodes of streptococcal pharyngitis. All three episodes of strep occurred during the 6-months interval between suspected Lyme disease exposure and the onset of multiple neuropsychiatric symptoms. Her sometimes incapacitating symptoms followed a relapsing and remitting course that impacted her personal,...
Tuesday 2 February 2021
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
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Tuesday 2 February 2021
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Saturday 30 January 2021
Authors: Branda JA, Steere AC Abstract SUMMARYLyme borreliosis is caused by a growing list of related, yet distinct, spirochetes with complex biology and sophisticated immune evasion mechanisms. It may result in a range of clinical manifestations involving different organ systems, and can lead to persistent sequelae in a subset of cases. The pathogenesis of Lyme borreliosis is incompletely understood, and laboratory diagnosis, the focus of this review, requires considerable understanding to interpret the results correctly. Direct detection of the infectious agent is usually not possible or practical, necessitating a continued reliance on serologic testing. Still, some important advances have been made in the area of diagnostics, and there are many promising ideas for future assay d...
Thursday 28 January 2021
(PLOS) A new analysis suggests that north-south differences in ticks' host choice, density, and host-seeking behaviors may explain why Lyme disease is more prevalent in the northeastern U.S. than in the southeast. Howard Ginsberg of the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and colleagues present these findings in an article publishing January 28th in the open-access journalPLOS Biology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 28 January 2021
Authors: Kugeler KJ, Schwartz AM, Delorey MJ, Mead PS, Hinckley AF Abstract By using commercial insurance claims data, we estimated that Lyme disease was diagnosed and treated in ≈476,000 patients in the United States annually during 2010-2018. Our results underscore the need for accurate diagnosis and improved prevention. PMID: 33496229 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Thursday 28 January 2021
Authors: Millins C, Leo W, MacInnes I, Ferguson J, Charlesworth G, Nayar D, Davison R, Yardley J, Kilbride E, Huntley S, Gilbert L, Viana M, Johnson P, Biek R Abstract Lyme disease is usually associated with forested habitats but has recently emerged on treeless islands in the Western Isles of Scotland. The environmental and human components of Lyme disease risk in open habitats remain unknown. We quantified the environmental hazard and risk factors for human tick bite exposure among treeless islands with low and high Lyme disease incidence in the Western Isles. We found a higher prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected ticks on high-incidence than on low-incidence islands (6.4% vs. 0.7%); we also found that residents of high-incidence islands reported increased tick ...
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Thursday 28 January 2021
Authors: Price KJ, Graham CB, Witmier BJ, Chapman HA, Coder BL, Boyer CN, Foster E, Maes SE, Bai Y, Eisen RJ, Kyle AD Abstract We collected questing Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks from southeastern counties of Pennsylvania, USA. Of 263 ticks tested by PCR for pathogens, 1 adult female was positive for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, yielding a 0.4% infection rate. Continued monitoring of this invasive tick is essential to determine its public health role. PMID: 33496234 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Thursday 28 January 2021
by Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, Russell L. Burke, Nicholas H. Ogden, Lorenza Beati, Roger A. LeBrun, Isis M. Arsnoe, Richard Gerhold, Seungeun Han, Kaetlyn Jackson, Lauren Maestas, Teresa Moody, Genevieve Pang, Breann Ross, Eric L. Rulison, Jean I. Tsao Lyme disease is common in the northeastern United States, but rare in the southeast, even though the tick vector is found in both regions. Infection prevalence of Lyme spirochetes in host-seeking ticks, an important component to the risk of Lyme disease, is also high in the northeast and northern midwest, but declines sharply in the south. As ticks must acquire Lyme spirochetes from infected vertebrate hosts, the role of wildlife species composition on Lyme disease risk has been a topic of lively academic discussion. We compared...
Wednesday 27 January 2021
(Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) A new study published in the journalGlobal Ecology and Biogeography used machine learning to identify bird species with the potential to transmit the Lyme disease bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi) to feeding ticks. The team developed a model that identified birds known to spread Lyme disease with 80% accuracy and flagged 21 new species that should be prioritized for surveillance. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Wednesday 27 January 2021
In Reply We thank Fallon et al for their interest in our nationwide population-based matched cohort study on the risk of psychiatric disorders, psychiatric hospital contacts, and receipt of psychiatric medication among Danish patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis. We agree with Fallon et al that our study is limited by the fact that the indication for prescription of psychiatric medicine could not be analyzed. We also agree that part of the increased redemption of psychiatric medication might be driven by pain management. However, owing to the observational nature of our study, any theory regarding the cause of the increased redemption remains speculative. Nonetheless, it is reassuring that the increased redemption of psychiatric medicine is temporary and that the level subsides to baseline ...
Monday 25 January 2021
Borrelia burgdorferi is the spirochete that causes Lyme Borreliosis (LB), which is a zoonotic tick-borne disease of humans and domestic animals. Hard ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites that serve as ... (Source: BMC Veterinary Research)
Thursday 21 January 2021
C. Millins et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Thursday 21 January 2021
Widely employed diagnostic antibody serology for Lyme disease, known as standard two-tier testing (STTT), exhibits insufficient sensitivity in early Lyme disease, yielding many thousands of false-negative test results each year. Given this problem, we applied serum antibody repertoire analysis (SERA), or next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based serology, to discover IgG and IgM antibody epitope motifs capable of detecting Lyme disease-specific antibodies with high sensitivity and specificity. Iterative motif discovery and bioinformatic analysis of epitope repertoires from subjects with Lyme disease (n = 264) and controls (n = 391) yielded a set of 28 epitope motifs representing 20 distinct IgG antibody epitopes and a set of 38 epitope motifs representing 21 distinct IgM epitopes, which perfo...
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Thursday 21 January 2021
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Wednesday 20 January 2021
Publication date: Available online 20 January 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Lars Eisen (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Crowdfunder led by schoolgirl raises £70,000 for sculpture of pioneering palaeontologist in Lyme Regis, DorsetA statue toMary Anning, a fossil hunter and palaeontologist once “lost to history” but now considered a significant female force in science, is finally to be erected after a crowdfunding campaign by a teenage girl.Evie Swire, 13, was nine years old when she first heard of Anning, who was born into a humble family in 1799 near Evie ’s Lyme Regis home in Dorset. The schoolgirl was outraged to discover there was no statue.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Friday 15 January 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Dermacentor reticulatus from north-eastern Poland were found to carry three of the most common tick-borne pathogens (B. burgdorferi s.l., Babesia canis, A. phagocytophilum) which lead to single and mixed infections. Babesia canis was the most prevalent pathogen identified in D. reticulatus. PMID: 33461099 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Advances in Medical Sciences)
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Roughly 500,000 people across the United States are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, according to new estimates released Wednesday by the CDC, but researchers raise concern that some people may be misdiagnosed. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Wednesday 13 January 2021
A. M. Schwartz et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Wednesday 13 January 2021
K. J. Kugeler et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
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Wednesday 13 January 2021
A. M. Schwartz et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Publication date: Available online 12 January 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Alexandra N. Cumbie, Erin L. Heller, Zachary J. Bement, Anna Phan, Eric L. Walters, Wayne L. Hynes, Holly D. Gaff (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 12 January 2021
K. J. Price et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
Thursday 7 January 2021
In this study, we evaluated the diagnostic value of IgM analysis in serum and IgM antibody index (AI) in LB diagnosis. This was a retrospective observational study regardingBorrelia-specific antibodies in serum andBorrelia-specific AI in LB investigations being made during 2017 in J önköping County, Sweden. Medical records of 610 patients with detectable anti-Borrelia antibodies in serum (IgM and/or IgG) and 15 patients with elevatedBorrelia-specific AI were retrospectively scrutinized, and the compliance to current European recommendations was assessed. Among the 610 patients, only 30% were tested according to the European recommendations. Within this group of tests taken correctly, 50% of the LB diagnoses in patients with isolated IgM reactivity in serum were retrospectively assessed a...
Wednesday 6 January 2021
Dogs in the US are commonly infected with vector-borne pathogens, including heartworm and tick-borne disease agents. The geographic distribution of both arthropod vectors and the pathogens they transmit contin... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Monday 4 January 2021
by Diego Barriales, Itziar Mart ín-Ruiz, Ana Carreras-González, Marta Montesinos-Robledo, Mikel Azkargorta, Ibon Iloro, Iraide Escobés, Teresa Martín-Mateos, Estibaliz Atondo, Ainhoa Palacios, Monika Gonzalez-Lopez, Laura Bárcena, Ana R. Cortázar, Diana Cabrera, Ainize Peña-Cearra, Sebastiaan M. van Liempd, Juan M. Falcón- Pérez, Miguel A. Pascual-Itoiz, Juana María Flores, Leticia Abecia, Aize Pellon, Maria Luz Martínez-Chantar, Ana M. Aransay, Alberto Pascual, Felix Elortza, Edurne Berra, José Luis Lavín, Héctor Rodríguez, Juan Anguita Lyme carditis is an extracutaneous manifestation of Lyme disease characterized by episodes of atrioventricular block of varying degrees and additional, less reported cardiomyopathies. The molecular changes associated with the response toBor...
Saturday 2 January 2021
This study was performed retrospectively on CSF and serum samples collected from children evaluated for LNB (n = 233) and controls with other specific neurological disorders (n = 59) in a Swedish Lyme endemic area. For anti-Borrelia antibody index, the IDEIA Lyme Neuroborreliosis kit (Oxoid) was used. Two in-house real-time PCR assays targeting the16S rRNA gene were evaluated (TaqMan ® and LUX™). Among patients classified as LNB cases (n = 102), five children (5%) wereBorrelia PCR-positive in CSF with the TaqMan ® assay. In the Non-LNB group (n = 131), one patient wasBorrelia PCR positive with the TaqMan ® assay. Among controls (n = 59), all CSF samples were PCR negative. When amplifying and sequencingospA, we foundB. garinii (n = 2),B. afzelii (n = 2),B. bavarien...
Thursday 31 December 2020
ConclusionNo significant differences in systemic immune responses represented by selected cytokines or chemokines in serum samples of patients with EM infected withB. afzelii suggest that systemic mediators are not pivotal in the pathogenesis of dissemination of early infection in the form of MEM or LB ‐associated symptoms. Localized immune responses in the skin or other pathogenetic mechanisms may be more important in this regard. (Source: Immunity, Inflammation and Disease)
Saturday 26 December 2020
Authors: Kuhn HW, Aranjuez GF, Jewett MW Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the leading tick-borne illness in the United States. However, due to, in part, to the significant number of proteins of unknown function encoded across the complex fragmented genome, the molecular mechanisms of B. burgdorferi infection remain largely undefined. Previous work identified the virulence determinant gene, bbk13, which is critical for B. burgdorferi's ability to establish a productive disseminated infection. BBK13 is an immunogenic, non-surface exposed protein of unknown function predicted to harbor an N-terminal transmembrane domain and annotated as a member of the SIMPL domain protein superfamily (PF04402). In eukaryotes, SIMPL domain proteins have been show...
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Wednesday 23 December 2020
A new model helps identify areas with high populations of the ticks that carry Lyme disease, a study published Tuesday by the Proceedings of the Royal Society B found. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Authors: Coburn J, Garcia B, Hu LT, Jewett MW, Kraiczy P, Norris SJ, Skare J Abstract Lyme disease Borrelia are obligately parasitic, tick- transmitted, invasive, persistent bacterial pathogens that cause disease in humans and non-reservoir vertebrates primarily through the induction of inflammation. During transmission from the infected tick, the bacteria undergo significant changes in gene expression, resulting in adaptation to the mammalian environment. The organisms multiply and spread locally and induce inflammatory responses that, in humans, result in clinical signs and symptoms. Borrelia virulence involves a multiplicity of mechanisms for dissemination and colonization of multiple tissues and evasion of host immune responses. Most of the tissue damage, which is seen in non-r...
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Authors: Julien DA, Sargeant JM, Filejski C, Versluis AM, Waind V, Harper SL Abstract Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) provide important benefits to human beings but can also transmit pathogens. Information on the breadth of canine zoonoses and vectorborne research in North America is scarce. A scoping review was conducted to examine (1) the number and type of canine zoonoses and vectorborne studies in domestic dogs conducted in North America since the start of the 21st century; (2) the main research methods reported; (3) the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) countries in which research was conducted; and (4) whether collaborative integrated terminology was reported in objectives or methods sections. Title/abstract screening, full-text screening, and data-charting ...
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Authors: Tran T, Prusinski MA, White JL, Falco RC, Vinci V, Gall WK, Tober K, Oliver J, Sporn LA, Meehan L, Banker E, Backenson PB, Jensen ST, Brisson D Abstract Many species have experienced dramatic changes in both geographic range and population sizes in recent history. Increases in the geographic range or population size of disease vectors have public health relevance as these increases often precipitate the emergence of infectious diseases in human populations. Accurately identifying environmental factors affecting the biogeographic patterns of vector species is a long-standing analytical challenge, stemming from a paucity of data capturing periods of rapid changes in vector demographics. We systematically investigated the occurrence and abundance of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ...
Tuesday 22 December 2020
The meeting will bring together researchers and scientists from across the SUNY system. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Tuesday 22 December 2020
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking the arrival of black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in hundreds of counties across 10 Midwestern states. They used these data - along with an analysis of county-level landscape features associated with the spread of ticks - to build a model that can predict where ticks are likely to appear in future years. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Tuesday 22 December 2020
Contributors : Diego Barriales ; Itziar Mart ín ; Ana Carreras-González ; Marta Montesinos-Robledo ; Mikel Azkargorta ; Ibon Iloro ; Iraide Escobés ; Teresa Martín-Mateos ; Estibaliz Atondo ; Ainhoa Palacios ; Monika Gonzalez ; Diana Cabrera ; Ainize Peña-Cearra ; Sebastiaan M van Liempd ; Juan M Falcón-Pérez ; Miguel A Pascu al-Itoiz ; Leticia Abecia ; Aize Pellon ; Maria L Martínez-Chantar ; Ana M Aransay ; Alberto Pascual ; Felix Elortza ; Edurne Berra ; José L Lavín ; Héctor Rodríguez ; Juan AnguitaSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Mus musculusLyme carditis is an extracutaneous manifestation of Lyme disease characterized by episodes of atrioventricular block of varying degrees and other less reported cardiomyopathies. The molecular c...
Monday 21 December 2020
Syphilis is a global, re-emerging sexually transmitted infection and congenital syphilis remains a major cause of adverse pregnancy outcomes due to bacterial infection in developing nations with a high rate of fetus loss. The molecular mechanisms involved in pathogenesis of the causative agent, Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum remain poorly understood due to the difficulties of working with this pathogen, including the inability to grow it in pure culture. To reduce the spread of syphilis, we must first increase our knowledge of the virulence factors of T. pallidum and their contribution to syphilis manifestations. Tp0954 was predicted to be a surface lipoprotein of T. pallidum. Therefore, we experimentally demonstrated that Tp0954 is indeed a surface protein and further investigated its...
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Friday 18 December 2020
The letter by Dr Stricker regarding Radonjic's analysis of Christina's World,1 which casts the famous work of art in a new light, is certainly welcome. Rather than accepting the usual diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Dr Stricker proposes Lyme disease as the condition that leads the woman to take such a vulnerable pose. Although such a novel interpretation is an important part of the ongoing discourse on this piece, upon deeper analysis there are several aspects to further explore. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Friday 18 December 2020
Radonjic's article about Andrew Wyeth's masterpiece, Christina's World,1 is thought-provoking even though it simply covers old ground about the possible diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) polyneuropathy in the woman who is the subject of the painting.2 As is often the case in art and medicine, however, viewing a picture with fresh eyes may reveal new possibilities. Therefore, it is worthwhile to consider a different diagnosis in this young woman of Scandinavian descent lying in a lush New England field of grass. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Friday 18 December 2020
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Thursday 17 December 2020
Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. Current diagnosis of early Lyme disease relies heavily on clinical criteria, including the presence of an erythema migrans rash. The sensitivity of current gold-standard diagnostic tests relies upon antibody formation, which is typically delayed and thus of limited utility in early infection. We conducted a study of blood and skin biopsy specimens from 57 patients with a clinical diagnosis of erythema migrans. Samples collected at the time of diagnosis were analyzed using an ultrasensitive, PCR-based assay employing an isothermal amplification step and multiple primers. In 75.4% of patients, we directly detected one or more B. burgdorferi genotypes in the skin. Two-tier testing showed that 20 (46.5%) of tho...
Thursday 17 December 2020
Authors: Schwartz I, Margos G, Casjens SR, Qiu WG, Eggers CH Abstract All members of the Borrelia genus that have been examined harbour a linear chromosome that is about 900 kbp in length, as well as a plethora of both linear and circular plasmids in the 5-220 kbp size range. Genome sequences for 27 Lyme disease Borrelia isolates have been determined since the elucidation of the B. burgdorferi B31 genome sequence in 1997. The chromosomes, which carry the vast majority of the housekeeping genes, appear to be very constant in gene content and organization across all Lyme disease Borrelia species. The content of the plasmids, which carry most of the genes that encode the differentially expressed surface proteins that interact with the spirochete's arthropod and vertebrate hosts, is mu...
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Tuesday 15 December 2020
Publication date: Available online 14 December 2020Source: Journal of Microbiological MethodsAuthor(s): Meri Rouhiainen, Annukka Pietikäinen, Elisa Kortela, Mari J. Kanerva, Jarmo Oksi, Jukka Hytönen (Source: Journal of Microbiological Methods)
Monday 14 December 2020
Publication date: Available online 13 December 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Derick Thompson, John A. Watt, Catherine A. Brissette (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Monday 14 December 2020
Publication date: Available online 13 December 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Anna Beltrame, Paola Rodari, Luisa Mauroner, Francesca Zanella, Lucia Moro, Giulia Bertoli, Filippo Da Re, Francesca Russo, Giuseppina Napoletano, Ronaldo Silva (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Monday 14 December 2020
CONCLUSION: CaLSeN provides the first coordinated national active surveillance initiative for tick-borne disease in Canada. Through multidisciplinary collaborations between experts in each province, the pilot year was successful in establishing a baseline for Lyme disease risk across the country, allowing future trends to be detected and studied.PMID:33315999 | PMC:PMC7723316 | DOI:10.14745/ccdr.v46i10a08 (Source: Can Commun Dis Rep)
Friday 11 December 2020
FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2020 -- In new evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, published online Nov. 30 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, recommendations are presented for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease. The guidelines were... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Friday 11 December 2020
Authors: Radolf- JD, Strle K, Lemieux JE, Strle F Abstract Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, continues to increase globally due to multiple environmental factors, coupled with increased incursion of humans into habitats that harbor the spirochete. B. burgdorferi sensu lato is transmitted by ticks from the Ixodes ricinus complex. In North America, B. burgdorferi causes nearly all infections; in Europe, B. afzelii and B. garinii are most associated with human disease. The spirochete's unusual fragmented genome encodes a plethora of differentially expressed outer surface lipoproteins that play a seminal role in...
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Thursday 10 December 2020
(University of California - San Francisco) Ticks live dangerous lives, spending most of their time questing for a host across wildly different habitats and seasons. Once they encounter a reptile, bird, or a mammal like us, they become intimately connected with it -- and all of its bacteria and viruses -- for days on end. Though ticks are notorious for transmitting pathogens such as the Lyme disease bacterium, how does their immune system keep them safe from contracting pathogens themselves? (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 10 December 2020
Authors: Samuels DS, Lybecker MC, Yang XF, Ouyang Z, Bourret TJ, Boyle WK, Stevenson B, Drecktrah D, Caimano MJ Abstract Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi, along with closely related species, is the etiologic agent of Lyme disease. The spirochete subsists in an enzootic cycle that encompasses acquisition from a vertebrate host to a tick vector and transmission from a tick vector to a vertebrate host. To adapt to its environment and persist in each phase of its enzootic cycle, B. burgdorferi wields three systems to regulate the expression of genes: the RpoN-RpoS alternative sigma (σ) factor cascade, the Hk1/Rrp1 two-component system and its product c-di-GMP, and the stringent response mediated by RelBbu and DksA. These regulatory systems respond to enzootic phase-specific signals ...
Thursday 10 December 2020
Authors: Telford SR, Goethert HK Abstract With one exception (epidemic relapsing fever), borreliae are obligately maintained in nature by ticks. Although some Borrelia spp. may be vertically transmitted to subsequent generations of ticks, most require amplification by a vertebrate host because inheritance is not stable. Enzootic cycles of borreliae have been found globally; those receiving the most attention from researchers are those whose vectors have some degree of anthropophily and, thus, cause zoonoses such as Lyme disease or relapsing fever. To some extent, our views on the synecology of the borreliae has been dominated by an applied focus, viz., analyses that seek to understand the elements of human risk for borreliosis. But, the elements of borrelial perpetuation do not nec...
Wednesday 9 December 2020
New clinical practice guidelines on Lyme disease place a strong emphasis on antibody testing to assess for rheumatologic and neurologic syndromes.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Authors: Bockenstedt LK, Wooten RM, Baumgarth N Abstract The mammalian host responds to infection with Borrelia spirochetes through a highly orchestrated immune defense involving innate and adaptive effector functions aimed toward limiting pathogen burdens, minimizing tissue injury, and preventing subsequent reinfection. The evolutionary adaptation of Borrelia spirochetes to their reservoir mammalian hosts may allow for its persistence despite this immune defense. This review summarizes our current understanding of the host immune response to B. burgdorferi sensu lato, the most widely studied Borrelia spp. and etiologic agent of Lyme borreliosis. Pertinent literature will be reviewed with emphasis on in vitro, ex vivo and animal studies that influenced our understanding of both the...
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Authors: Pal U, Kitsou C, Drecktrah D, Yaş ÖB, Fikrig E Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato causes Lyme borreliosis in a variety of animals and humans. These atypical bacterial pathogens are maintained in a complex enzootic life cycle that primarily involves a vertebrate host and Ixodes spp. ticks. In the Northeastern United States, I. scapularis is the main vector, while wild rodents serve as the mammalian reservoir host. As B. burgdorferi is transmitted only by I. scapularis and closely related ticks, the spirochete-tick interactions are thought to be highly specific. Various borrelial and arthropod proteins that directly or indirectly contribute to the natural cycle of B. burgdorferi infection have been identified. Discrete molecular interactions between spirochetes and t...
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Authors: Oppler ZJ, O'Keeffe KR, McCoy KD, Brisson D Abstract The genus Borrelia consists of evolutionarily and genetically diverse bacterial species that cause a variety of diseases in humans and domestic animals. These vector-borne spirochetes can be classified into two major evolutionary groups, the Lyme borreliosis clade and the relapsing fever clade, both of which have complex transmission cycles during which they interact with multiple host species and arthropod vectors. Molecular, ecological, and evolutionary studies have each provided significant contributions towards our understanding of the natural history, biology and evolutionary genetics of Borrelia species; however, integration of these studies is required to identify the evolutionary causes and consequences of the ge...
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Tuesday 8 December 2020
Authors: O'Bier NS, Hatke AL, Camire AC, Marconi RT Abstract Lyme disease (LD) is an emerging zoonotic infection that is increasing in incidence in North America, Europe, and Asia. With the development of safe and efficacious vaccines, LD can potentially be prevented. Vaccination offers a cost-effective and safe approach for decreasing the risk of infection. While LD vaccines have been widely used in veterinary medicine, they are not available as a preventive tool for humans. Central to the development of effective vaccines is an understanding of the enzootic cycle of LD, differential gene expression of Borrelia burgdorferi in response to environmental variables, and the genetic and antigenic diversity of the unique bacteria that cause this debilitating disease. Here we review thes...
Monday 7 December 2020
Authors: Lobo-Prat D, Corominas H, Pomar V PMID: 33279209 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Medicina Clinica)
Thursday 3 December 2020
(Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology)
Monday 30 November 2020
Authors: Takacs CN, Scott M, Chang Y, Kloos ZA, Irnov I, Rosa PA, Liu J, Jacobs-Wagner C Abstract The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease, an increasingly prevalent infection. While previous studies have provided important insight into B. burgdorferi biology, many aspects, including basic cellular processes, remain underexplored. To help speed up the discovery process, we adapted a CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) platform for use in B. burgdorferi For efficiency and flexibility of use, we generated various CRISPRi template constructs that produce different basal and induced levels of dcas9 and carry different antibiotic resistance markers. We characterized the effectiveness of our CRISPRi platform by targeting the motility and cell morphogenesis genes flaB, mreB, rodA...
Sunday 29 November 2020
Arthritis& Rheumatology, EarlyView. (Source: Arthritis and Rheumatology)
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Monday 23 November 2020
Authors: Nigrovic LE, Neville DN, Balamuth F, Levas MN, Bennett JE, Kharbanda AB, Thompson AD, Branda JA, Garro AC, Pedi Lyme Net Working Group Abstract In 2015, we founded Pedi Lyme Net, a pediatric Lyme disease research network comprising 8 emergency departments in the United States. Of 2,497 children evaluated at 1 of these sites for Lyme disease, 515 (20.6%) were infected. This network is a unique resource for evaluating new approaches for diagnosing Lyme disease in children. PMID: 33219811 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Monday 23 November 2020
ConclusionThis case report shows that abdominal radiculitis, although extremely rare, could be the first manifestation of early Lyme neuroborreliosis in pediatric patients. Pediatricians must consider Lyme disease in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain of unknown origin in children, especially in countries where the infection is endemic. (Source: Italian Journal of Pediatrics)
Thursday 19 November 2020
Publication date: January 2021Source: Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 1Author(s): C.C. Nawrocki, A.F. Hinckley (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 17 November 2020
Publication date: Available online 15 November 2020Source: Journal of Minimally Invasive GynecologyAuthor(s): Shana Miles, Suketu Mansuria (Source: Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology)
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Monday 16 November 2020
Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease, the most common tick-transmitted illness in North America. When Ixodes scapularis feed on an infected vertebrate host, spirochetes enter the tick gut along with the bloodmeal and colonize the vector. Here, we show that a secreted tick protein, I. scapularis protein disulfide isomerase A3 (IsPDIA3), enhances B. burgdorferi colonization of the tick gut. I. scapularis ticks in which ispdiA3 has been knocked down using RNA interference have decreased spirochete colonization of the tick gut after engorging on B. burgdorferi-infected mice. Moreover, administration of IsPDIA3 antiserum to B. burgdorferi-infected mice reduced the ability of spirochetes to colonize the tick when feeding on these animals. We show that IsPDIA3 modulates inflammatory responses...
Monday 16 November 2020
During the natural enzootic life cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi (also known as Borreliella burgdorferi), the bacteria must sense conditions within the vertebrate and arthropod and appropriately regulate expression of genes necessary to persist within these distinct environments. bb0345 of B. burgdorferi encodes a hypothetical protein of unknown function that is predicted to contain an N-terminal helix-turn-helix (HTH) domain. Because HTH domains can mediate protein-DNA interactions, we hypothesized that BB0345 might represent a previously unidentified borrelial transcriptional regulator with the ability to regulate events critical for the B. burgdorferi enzootic cycle. To study the role of BB0345 within mammals, we generated a bb0345 mutant and assessed its virulence potential in immunocomp...
Sunday 15 November 2020
40-year-old patient presented to the emergency department with redness, swelling, and pain surrounding her umbilical incision 6 weeks after a laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy and treated with cephalexin. Two days later, she was switched to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) due to worsening redness. Initially, the area improved, but day 9 of TMP/SMX, she noticed expanding abdominal erythema and patches of erythema on left inguinal fold and right forearm. Over the next 24 hours, there was rapid expansion of abdominal redness and patchy areas of redness on left groin and right forearm. (Source: The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology)
Thursday 12 November 2020
In Europe, ticks are responsible for the transmission of several pathogens of medical importance, including bacteria of the Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) complex, the agents of Lyme borreliosis. In France, the Auve... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Wednesday 11 November 2020
The newly identified protein acts like an early warning signal to the immune system when exposed to the bacteria at causes Lyme disease. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Wednesday 11 November 2020
(Yale University) Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, they report Nov. 11 in the journalPLOS Pathogens. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Tuesday 10 November 2020
L. E. Nigrovic et al. (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal)
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Tuesday 10 November 2020
In Finland, the routine surveillance of Lyme borreliosis (LB) is laboratory-based. In addition, we have well established national health care registers where countrywide data from patient visits in public heal... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Monday 9 November 2020
Authors: Bernard Q, Hu LT Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. Once inoculated into the host dermis, it disseminates to various organs including distant skin sites, the heart, the joint and the nervous system. Most humans will develop an early skin manifestation called erythema migrans at the tick bite site. This can be followed by symptoms such as carditis, neuritis, meningitis, or arthritis if not treated. A specific mouse strain, C3H/HeN develops arthritis with B. burgdorferi infection whereas another strain, C57BL/6, develops minimal to no arthritis. Neither strain of mice show any skin signs of rash or inflammation. Factors that determine the presence of skin inflammation and the joint arthritis sus...
Friday 6 November 2020
Authors: Goethert HK, Mather TN, Buchthal J, Telford SR Abstract Deer tick transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (Lyme disease) and Babesia microti (babesiosis) increasingly burden public health across eastern North America. The white-footed mouse is considered to be the primary host for subadult deer ticks and the most important reservoir host for these and other disease agents. Local transmission is thought to be modulated by less reservoir competent hosts such as deer diverting ticks from feeding on mice. We measured the proportion of mouse fed or deer fed host-seeking nymphs from 4 sites during 2 transmission seasons by bloodmeal remnant analysis using a new retrotransposon-based qPCR assay. We then determined the host that was associated with the infection status of t...
Monday 2 November 2020
This case report describes man in his 20s with no documented medical history presented to the emergency department after an unwitnessed syncopal event who was subsequently diagnosed with Lyme disease. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Saturday 31 October 2020
Pediatric bilateral facial nerve paralysis (FNP) is a rare condition, representing less than 2% of all cases of FNP. The differential diagnosis of FNP is extensive (ranging from infectious, traumatic, neurologic, to idiopathic) and often can present as a diagnostic challenge. In contrast to unilateral presentation, bilateral FNP presents as a manifestation of serious systemic conditions, including meningitis (infectious and neoplastic), brain stem encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, sarcoidosis, Lyme disease, human immunodeficiency virus infection, leukemia, and vasculitis. In the evaluation of a child who presents with bilateral FNP, history plays the utmost role in the diagnosis. A history of rash consistent with erythema chronicum migrans, recent tick exposure, or travel to a Lyme di...
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Thursday 29 October 2020
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by the bite of an infected black-legged tick, commonly known as a deer tick. Preventing tick bites is the best defense against the disease. And now there is good news for those looking for an alternative insect repellant to fight off ticks, says Dr. Omar Abu Saleh, a Mayo Clinic [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Thursday 29 October 2020
Authors: Tufts DM, Goodman LB, Benedict MC, Davis AD, VanAcker MC, Diuk-Wasser M Abstract Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick, is an invasive ixodid tick that has rapidly spread across the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States since first reported in 2017. The emergence of H. longicornis presents a potential threat for livestock, wildlife, and human health as the host associations and vector potential of this invasive pest in the United States are poorly understood. Previous field data from the United States has shown that H. longicornis was not associated with natural populations of small mammals or birds, but they show a preference for medium sized mammals in laboratory experiments. Therefore, medium and large sized mammals were sampled on St...
Thursday 29 October 2020
Vector-borne illnesses comprise a significant portion of human maladies, representing 17% of global infections. Transmission of vector-borne pathogens to mammals primarily occurs by hematophagous arthropods. It is speculated that blood may provide a unique environment that aids in the replication and pathogenesis of these microbes. Lipids and their derivatives are one component enriched in blood and are essential for microbial survival. For instance, the malarial parasitePlasmodium falciparum and the Lyme disease spirocheteBorrelia burgdorferi, among others, have been shown to scavenge and manipulate host lipids for structural support, metabolism, replication, immune evasion, and disease severity. In thisReview, we will explore the importance of lipid hijacking for the growth and persisten...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
CONCLUSION: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of Lyme borreliosis put patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses and multiple adverse effects of unjustified treatments. The clinical management of such patients requires a comprehensive approach including expertise in mental disorders. PMID: 33098950 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses)
Monday 26 October 2020
DiscussionMusculoskeletal problems are common problems in pediatric practice with up to 15% of acute care visits being for this problem. Joint pain is a common concern for families but the differential diagnosis is extensive and needs thoughtful consideration. History is a key to discerning the potential diagnosis but also in guiding the physical examination and laboratory examination. Family history especially for systemic diseases should be considered. On physical examination all joints should be examined include sacroiliac and temporomandibular joints. Is this arthritis or arthralgia? Distinction between inflammatory and non-inflammatory joints is important. Joints with inflammation are painful or stiff after rest and improve with activity. Joints without inflammation are better afte...
Monday 26 October 2020
In conclusion, based on these findings, combining untreated and on-treatment groups of patients with erythema migrans for research study analyses may have limitations and, depending on the study objectives, might not be preferred. Additional studies are warranted to better understand the day-to-day impact of antibiotic treatment on the presence, type, and severity of symptoms in patients with early Lyme disease. PMID: 33106261 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
Monday 19 October 2020
Lyme disease, spread by the Ixodes tick, is typically associated with a single “bull's eye rash” that emergency physicians are comfortable recognizing and treating during the summer months when this disease is most prevalent. However, Lyme disease can also present in disseminated forms that are more difficult to diagnose. (Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine)
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Monday 19 October 2020
The symptoms of Lyme disease are caused by inflammation induced by species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The various presentations of Lyme disease in the population suggest that differences exist in the intensity and regulation of the host response to the spirochete. Previous work has described correlations between the presence of regulatory T cells and recovery from Lyme arthritis. However, the effects of Foxp3-expressing CD4+ T cells existing prior to, and during, B. burgdorferi infection have not been well characterized. Here, we used C57BL/6 "depletion of regulatory T cell" mice to assess the effects these cells have on the arthritis-resistant phenotype characteristic of this mouse strain. We showed that depletion of regulatory T cells prior to infection with B. burgd...
Friday 16 October 2020
Patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis, a late-stage manifestation of Lyme disease, may develop psychiatric illness, but new research suggests that when symptoms do develop, they tend to resolve within a year.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Friday 16 October 2020
A few years ago, Jaime Seltzer was helping coordinate research projects, grant applications and funding for a Stanford research group studying a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Up to 2.5 million Americans, including Seltzer, have ME/CFS, and yet it felt like almost no one paid attention to her group’s research. “What is it going to take for researchers to take ME seriously?” she and her colleagues often wondered aloud. The morbid answer, they hypothesized, was a pandemic. Since ME/CFS often follows viral infections, they feared it would take something as destructive as mass illness for the larger scientific community to take notice. Unfortunately, this year they were proven right. As the COVID-19 pandemic presses on, doctors ...
Friday 16 October 2020
In this study, we modelled the spatial distribution of I. ricinus and associated Chlamydiales over Switzerland from 2009 to 2019. We used a total of 2293 ticks and 186 Chlamydiales occurrences provided by a Swiss Army field campaign, a collaborative smartphone application and a prospective campaign. For each tick location, we retrieved from Swiss federal datasets the environmental factors reflecting the topography, climate and land cover. We then used the Maxent modelling technique to estimate the suitability for I. ricinus and to subsequently build the nested niche of Chlamydiales bacteria. Results indicate that I. ricinus high habitat suitability is determined by higher temperature and vegetation index (NDVI) values, lower temperature during driest months and a higher percentage of artif...
Wednesday 14 October 2020
CONCLUSIONS: Deconstructing chronic Lyme disease with empathy and conviction is in patients' best interests. PMID: 33045319 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses)
Wednesday 14 October 2020
(University of Arizona College of Engineering) In her Little Sensor Lab, University of Arizona professor Judith Su is working to sense single molecule amounts of 'anything worth sensing' -- including biomarkers for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Lyme disease and even COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Tuesday 13 October 2020
Publication date: Available online 13 October 2020Source: Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious DiseasesAuthor(s): M.M. Obaidat, M.A. Alshehabat, W.A. Hayajneh, A.A. Roess (Source: Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
Tuesday 13 October 2020
This study examined the seroprevalence of B. burgdorferi s.l. in Jordan and potential demographic and zoonotic risk factors for seropositivity. Serum samples of 824 apparently healthy participants from 11 governorates in Jordan were tested for B. burgdorferi s.l. using Enzygnost Lyme link VlsE/IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. A validated questionnaire was used to collect demographic and animal exposure data. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to identify factors associated with seropositivity. The results showed that 11.7 % (95 % CI, 9.3-14.0 %) of the participants were seropositive for B. burgdorferi s.l.. There was a bimodal age distribution of seroprevalence with higher seroprevalence among individuals <20 and>60 years old. After controlling for govern...
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Sunday 11 October 2020
This study aimed to assess the incidence, clinical presentation, treatment and outcome of serologically confirmed paediatric LD in the Republic of Ireland over a 5-year period. A retrospective review of records from accredited laboratories performingBorrelia burgdorferi serological testing was undertaken. Proformas were distributed to clinicians of children and adolescents with positive Lyme serology. Data were requested regarding clinical presentation, treatment and outcome. Updated NICE guidelines were used to classify clinical cases. Serology testing forB. burgdorferi was performed on 2908 samples. Sixty-three (2.2%) children were two-tier positive, generating a crude annual incidence rate of 1.15/100,000. Proformas were returned for 55 (87%) and 47 met clinical and laboratory criteria ...
Saturday 10 October 2020
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Robert E. Rollins, Zehra Yeyin, Maja Wyczanska, Nikolas Alig, Sabrina Hepner, Volker Fingerle, Gabriele Margos, Noémie S. Becker (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Saturday 10 October 2020
We aimed to describe the use and findings of cranial computerized tomography (CT-head), spine and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI-spine/MRI-brain) in Lyme neuroborreliose (LNB). (Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
Thursday 8 October 2020
Borrelia bavariensis is one of the agents of Lyme Borreliosis (or Lyme disease) in Eurasia. The genome of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex, that includes B. bavariensis, is known to be very com... (Source: BMC Genomics)
Wednesday 7 October 2020
This cohort study uses data from Danish national registries to examine the risk of psychiatric disease, the percentage of psychiatric hospital inpatient and outpatient contacts, and the receipt of prescribed psychiatric medications among patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis in Denmark. (Source: JAMA Psychiatry)
Wednesday 7 October 2020
The incidence of Lyme disease (LD) in North America has increased substantially in the past two decades. Concomitant with the increased incidence of infection has been an enhancement in the recognition of LD c... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
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Tuesday 6 October 2020
(Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology)
Monday 5 October 2020
ConclusionInfectious causes for non-idiopathic FP like VZV reactivation and Lyme disease had best probability for complete recovery. Post-surgery FP had a worse prognosis.Level of evidence2 (Source: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)
Friday 2 October 2020
(Virginia Tech) Renowned tick immunobiologist Utpal Pal wants to adapt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that can protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. The intention is to apply this work to other tick-borne diseases in the future. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Thursday 1 October 2020
Conclusion: CaLSeN provides the first coordinated national active surveillance initiative for tick-borne disease in Canada. Through multidisciplinary collaborations between experts in each province, the pilot year was successful in establishing a baseline for Lyme disease risk across the country, allowing future trends to be detected and studied. PMID: 33315999 [PubMed] (Source: Can Commun Dis Rep)
Wednesday 30 September 2020
CONCLUSIONS: Lyme disease is rare, but must be kept in mind when investigating the etiology of chorioretinitis and retinal vasculitis. The patient reported here is, to our knowledge, the second case reported in literature that shows atypical clinic for Lyme disease with unilateral chorioretinitis without Erythema chronicum migrans (ECM). PMID: 32998513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: European Journal of Ophthalmology)
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Wednesday 30 September 2020
The objective of the study was to determine the infection prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease, in the province's ticks and the seroprevalence in its dogs. It was found that 97.8% (n = 368) of ticks submitted were Ixodes scapularis, a species capable of transmitting Borrelia burgdorferi; 10.3% of these ticks [95% confidence interval (CI): 3.6% to 17.0%] were infected. Provincial canine seroprevalence for the 199 submitted samples was estimated at 3.0% (95% CI: 1.0% to 5.1%). PMID: 33012828 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Canadian Veterinary Journal)
Monday 28 September 2020
Pharmacist Arlene Brailey continues to fight for better testing and diagnosis of Lyme disease, after a tick bite left her son chronically ill. (Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal)
Sunday 27 September 2020
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Saturday 26 September 2020
Authors: O'Keeffe KR, Oppler ZJ, Brisson D Abstract The bacterial genus, Borrelia, is comprised of vector-borne spirochete species that infect and are transmitted from multiple host species. Some Borrelia species cause highly-prevalent diseases in humans and domestic animals. Evolutionary, ecological, and molecular research on many Borrelia species have resulted in tremendous progress toward understanding the biology and natural history of these species. Yet, many outstanding questions, such as how Borrelia populations will be impacted by climate and land-use change, will require an interdisciplinary approach. The evolutionary ecology research framework incorporates theory and data from evolutionary, ecological, and molecular studies while overcoming common assumptions within each ...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
In this study, cases submitted with a serologically confirmed, clinically unequivocal, or highly suspicious diagnosis of ECM/Lyme disease between January 01, 2016, and September 01, 2018, were retrieved from the electronic database system and reviewed to delineate the histopathologic features of ECM. The series consisted of 14 cases. A superficial perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate was noted in all biopsies, accompanied by a deep and/or interstitial inflammatory infiltrate in 9 cases (64%). The inflammation ranged from relatively sparse to dense and prominent. At least focal interface changes were noted in 12 biopsies (86%). Eosinophils and plasma cells were noted in 7 (50%) and 10 (71%) cases, respectively. From a histologic standpoint, ECM is a protean entity and may manifest with a var...
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Monday 21 September 2020
Etiologies for Bell's palsy include herpes viruses and Lyme disease, with highest incidence in the colder and warmer months, respectively. In New Jersey, a Lyme-endemic area, the months with the most Lyme disease (80% of cases) are May through October ( “Lyme months”). (Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine)
Monday 21 September 2020
Recent evidence suggests that climate change and other factors are leading to the emergence of Lyme disease in the province of Quebec, where it previously did not exist. As risk areas expand further north, the... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Thursday 17 September 2020
We report a case of acute neuroborreliosis that manifested as extended isolated cervical myelitis. Not only the manifestation as isolated myelitis in the early stages of borreliosis represents a rarity, but also the strong contrast between mild clinical symptoms and pronounced imaging findings in this case is remarkable.Case Rep Neurol 2020;12:276 –281 (Source: Case Reports in Neurology)
Wednesday 16 September 2020
Infection with tick borne Borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme disease) can without treatment rarely develop into a chronic phase. Secondary Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (sNPH) based on chronic infection with Borrelia ... (Source: BMC Neurology)
Sunday 13 September 2020
Authors: Cormode EJ PMID: 32928805 [PubMed - in process] (Source: cmaj)
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Thursday 10 September 2020
CONCLUSIONS: Cats can be infected with both <i>Bb</i>sl and <i>Li</i>sl. The obtained results are exclusive to the city of Brno and its environs, and are comparable to the limited previous studies. There is a need for further studies of clinical signs of both infections and the possible transmission of Leptospira by ticks. PMID: 32955214 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Wednesday 9 September 2020
(Rutgers University) A tick species associated with bats has been reported for the first time in New Jersey and could pose health risks to people, pets and livestock, according to a Rutgers-led study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. This species (Carios kelleyi) is a " soft " tick. Deer ticks, which carry Lyme disease, are an example of " hard " ticks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 3 September 2020
Authors: Howarth M, Rahikainen R, Rijal P, Tan T, Draper S, Townsend A, Wu HJ, Bowden T, Andersson AM, Barrett J Abstract Matching of symmetry at interfaces is a fundamental obstacle in molecular assembly. Virus-like particles (VLPs) are important platforms to generate vaccines against pathogenic threats including Covid-19. However, symmetry mismatch between multimeric antigens and VLP subunits can prohibit vaccine nanoassembly. Here we explore spontaneous amidation to establish principles for coupling VLPs to diverse antigen symmetries. SpyTag003/SpyCatcher003-mediated decoration enabled efficient VLP conjugation and extreme thermal resilience. Many people showed pre-existing antibodies to SpyTag:SpyCatcher, but decreased antibodies against 003 variants. We coupled efficiently to ...
Thursday 3 September 2020
Lyme disease is on the rise. How can you prevent it? What are the symptoms, and what should you do if you think you or your pet have it? (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Tuesday 1 September 2020
It ’s not just Covid-19. Pathogens once confined to nature are making their way into humans on a more regular basis. And it’s our fault. (Source: NYT Health)
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Tuesday 1 September 2020
No abstract available (Source: Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology)
Tuesday 1 September 2020
neuroborreliosis-related CNS vasculitis is believed to be a manifestation of Lyme disease [1,2]. We here report the case of a patient, diagnosed with neuroborreliosis and a fusiform cerebral aneurysm. We made use of 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in order to better visualize the aneurysm and discriminate between a congenital and an infectious malformation. The ultra-high resolution imaging permitted the representation of the vessel wall and showed accumulation of contrast medium, which, along with localization and form of the malformation, reinforced the suspicion of an infectious cause of the aneurysm. (Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
Monday 31 August 2020
neuroborreliosis-related CNS vasculitis is believed to be a manifestation of Lyme disease [1,2]. We here report the case of a patient, diagnosed with neuroborreliosis and a fusiform cerebral aneurysm. We made use of 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in order to better visualize the aneurysm and discriminate between a congenital and an infectious malformation. The ultra-high resolution imaging permitted the representation of the vessel wall and showed accumulation of contrast medium, which, along with localization and form of the malformation, reinforced the suspicion of an infectious cause of the aneurysm. (Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
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Sunday 30 August 2020
Authors: Seto J, Tanaka S, Kawabata H, Ito Y, Ikeda T, Mizuta K Abstract Companion animals can become infected with tick-borne diseases (TBDs) and can become hosts of transmission to humans, thereby damaging human health. To clarify whether companion animals are infested by ticks harboring TBD pathogens in humans, we detected TBD pathogens in ticks collected from dogs and cats brought to animal hospitals in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Investigation of 164 adult ticks collected from 88 dogs and 41 cats during March-July 2018 revealed the predominant tick species as Ixodes ovatus (n = 95, 57.9%), followed by Ixodes nipponensis (37, 22.6%) and Haemaphysalis flava (10, 6.1%). The results of our genetic tests targeting spotted fever group rickettsiae, Lyme disease borreliae, relapsing f...
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Publication date: Available online 25 August 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Malte M. Tetens, Rasmus Haahr, Ram B. Dessau, Karen A. Krogfelt, Jacob Bodilsen, Nanna S. Andersen, Jens K. Møller, Casper Roed, Claus B. Christiansen, Svend Ellermann-Eriksen, Jette M. Bangsborg, Klaus Hansen, Thomas L. Benfield, Christian Østergaard Andersen, Niels Obel, Lars H. Omland, Anne-Mette Lebech (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Publication date: Available online 25 August 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Chinar Osman, Liam S. Carroll, Christina Petridou, Mark Walker, Louis W. Merton, Haider Katifi (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 25 August 2020
Preema Sinha, Bhavni Oberoi, Yadvendra S Sirohi, Aradhana Sood, Saikat BhattacharjeeNeurology India 2020 68(4):916-918 Lyme disease is a multi-organ infectious disease caused by the spirochete “Borrelia burgdorferi,” and transmitted by the “Ixodes” tick. Early disseminated Lyme disease can have varied central nervous system manifestations ranging from meningitis to radiculopathy and cranial neuropathy. If not suspected, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis can prove to be fatal. Erythema migrans is the most common clinical presentation, thereby, making dermatological examination extremely crucial in early diagnosis and treatment. (Source: Neurology India)
Monday 24 August 2020
Credit: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)By Lawrence SurendraBANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 24 2020 (IPS) The COVID 19 Pandemic continues relentlessly. Deaths approaching a million globally, 22 million infected and growing. Brazil, India, the US and Russia accounting for almost 50% of the total cases in the world. Medically the promise of a vaccine is given as signs of hope; what surprises awaits us when such a vaccine is available, would be another story. Economically, to address the uncertainty and the grim future ahead, the UN, some governments and even Joe Biden the US Presidential hopeful, are waving “Build Back better” as ways to achieve ‘a new normal’ out of the current pandemic. “Build Back Better” emerged out of the 3rd International Conference on Disa...
Sunday 23 August 2020
Diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is challenging, as long as Borrelia-specific intrathecal antibodies are not yet detectable. The chemokine CXCL13 is elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of LNB patients. Here, we compared the performances of the Euroimmun CXCL13 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (CXCL13 ELISA) and the ReaScan CXCL13 lateral flow immunoassay (CXCL13 LFA), a rapid point-of-care test, to support the diagnosis of LNB. In a dual-center case-control study, CSF samples from 90 patients (34 with definite LNB, 10 with possible LNB, and 46 with other central nervous system [CNS] diseases [non-LNB group]) were analyzed with the CXCL13 ELISA and the CXCL13 LFA. Classification of patients followed the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) guidelines on LNB. T...
Saturday 22 August 2020
Borreliosis (Lyme disease) is a spirochetal disease caused by the species complex ofBorrelia burgdorferi transmitted byIxodes spp. ticks. Recorded to be the most common tick ‐borne disease in the world, the last two decades have seen an increase in disease incidence and distribution, exceeding 360 000 cases in Europe alone. If untreated, infection may cause skin symptoms, arthritis, and neurological or cardiac complications. Borrelia spirochetes have developed strate gies to evade the mammalian host immune system. These include the complement system, which is an important first‐line defense mechanism against invading microbes. To evade the complement, spirochetes bind soluble complement regulators factor H (FH), factor H‐like protein, and C4bp to their outer surfaces.B. burgdorf...
Saturday 22 August 2020
We report on a patient in Austria with scalp eschar and neck lymphadenopathy. Rickettsial etiology was excluded by culture, PCR, and serologic tests. Borrelia afzelii was identified from the eschar swab by PCR. Lyme borreliosis can mimic rickettsiosis; appropriate tests should be included in the diagnostic workup of patients with eschars. PMID: 32818412 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Wednesday 19 August 2020
In conclusion, These results reveal new possibilities for the treatment of Lyme arthritis. PMID: 32829087 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Immunopharmacology)
Tuesday 18 August 2020
Authors: Chhuy E, Trone MC, Vergnon Miszczycha D, Thuret G, Gain P PMID: 32800421 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal Francais d Ophtalmologie)
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Tuesday 18 August 2020
Lyme and Covid-19 are replacing syphilis as the great masquerader. They share many puzzling symptoms and are all easily missed. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Monday 17 August 2020
LYME DISEASE is normally harmless, but if it is left untreated it can be deadly. How do you get Lyme disease? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 13 August 2020
Publication date: 8 August 2020Source: New Scientist, Volume 247, Issue 3294Author(s): Alice Klein (Source: New Scientist)
Thursday 13 August 2020
Background: Nonspecific symptoms in children suspected of Lyme borreliosis (LB) are challenging for clinicians. We assessed whether nonspecific symptoms are more prevalent among children with positive immunoglobulin G (IgG) serology or a history of clinical LB. Methods: We included children ( (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Wednesday 12 August 2020
The E.P.A. has approved nootkatone, which is found in cedars and grapefruit. It repels ticks, mosquitoes and other dangerous bugs for hours, but is safe enough to eat. (Source: NYT Health)
Monday 10 August 2020
Mi Soo Choi, Gi Hyun Seong, Myeong Jin Park, Minkee Park, Seung Phil Hong, Byung Cheol Park, Myung Hwa KimIndian Journal of Dermatology 2020 65(5):432-434 (Source: Indian Journal of Dermatology)
Monday 10 August 2020
Platinum Seal allows donors to focus on progress and results for top Lyme disease organization(PRWeb August 10, 2020)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/global_lyme_alliance_reaches_guidestars_highest_seal_of_transparency/prweb17313403.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
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Monday 10 August 2020
To predict the risk of tick-borne disease, it is critical to understand the ecological factors that determine the abundance of ticks. In Europe, the sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) transmits a number of important dis... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
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Saturday 8 August 2020
Insects can pass along serious illnesses, such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Because of covid-19, health agencies are focusing less on these problems. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Friday 7 August 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Brooks, 27, of Hampshire, suffers from chronic Lyme disease - a tick-borne condition that has severe symptoms including agonising joint pain, fatigue and headaches. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 3 August 2020
AbstractBorreliosis (Lyme disease) is a spirochetal disease caused by the species complex ofBorrelia burgdorferi transmitted byIxodes spp. ticks. Recorded to be the most common tick ‐borne disease in the world, the last two decades have seen an increase in disease incidence and distribution, exceeding 360 000 cases in Europe alone. If untreated, infection may cause skin symptoms, arthritis, neurological or cardiac complications. Borrelia spirochetes have developed strategies to evade the mammalian host immune system. These include the complement system, which is an important first‐line defence mechanism against invading microbes. To evade the complement, spirochetes bind soluble complement regulators FH, FHL‐1 and C4bp to their outer surfaces.B. burgdorferi spirochetes can inhibit th...
Monday 3 August 2020
LYME disease is a debilitating bacterial infection and with lockdowns easing and more people venturing outside, knowing the potential risks and symptoms is extremely important. If you experience any of these six, lesser-known warning signs you may be at risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 3 August 2020
This study aimed to asse... (Source: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica)
Saturday 1 August 2020
SATURDAY, Aug. 1, 2020 -- Summer means higher odds of getting Lyme disease, so know how to avoid it, health experts say. Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium carried by some ticks and, if left untreated, can cause severe health problems. Ticks can... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Friday 31 July 2020
Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the USA with cases continuing to increase. Current control measures have not been shown to be impactful, and therefore alternatives are needed. Treati... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Thursday 30 July 2020
A vaccine against Lyme disease that is safe and stimulated immune protection in 82 to 96 per cent of clinical trial participants could be available by 2025 (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Tuesday 28 July 2020
This article synthesizes the individual approaches of neurologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, infectious disease specialists, and psychologists when presented with the same case and the effective multidisciplinary integration of these efforts even when the exact diagnosis remains unknown. PMID: 32706944 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders)
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Monday 27 July 2020
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Saturday 25 July 2020
Publication date: Available online 24 July 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Gebbiena M. Bron, Maria del P. Fernandez, Scott R. Larson, Adam Maus, Dave Gustafson, Jean I. Tsao, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, Lyric C. Bartholomay, Susan M. Paskewitz (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Friday 24 July 2020
Publication date: Available online 24 July 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Annetta Zintl, Taher Zaid, Fiona McKiernan, Amalia Naranjo-Lucena, Jeremy Gray, Sorcha Brosnan, John Browne, Jack O’Connor, John Mee, Barbara Good, Emma L. Gillingham, Alexander G.C. Vaux, Jolyon Medlock (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Wednesday 22 July 2020
New Hampshire has signed into law a bill that establishes a commission to study the limitations of current testing for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses and available treatment.Associated Press (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
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Sunday 19 July 2020
With no vaccine against Lyme right now, the author and his colleagues are working to create seasonal protection. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Friday 17 July 2020
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which is transmitted by a tick bite. Feeling this sensation in your head could mean you're at risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 17 July 2020
Publication date: August 2020Source: The Veterinary Journal, Volume 262Author(s): A.L. Hatke, D.R. Green, K. Stasiak, R.T. Marconi (Source: The Veterinary Journal)
Thursday 16 July 2020
by Sarah Elizabeth Adler, AARP, Updated July 14, 2020 | ... En espa ñol | Ticks: They're the tiny pests that stop outdoor fun in its tracks — and experts say they stay active well into fall, making ... (Source: AARP.org News)
Thursday 16 July 2020
Pasos para ayudar a prevenir las picaduras y las enfermedades. ... por: Sarah Elizabeth Adler, AARP, 14 de julio de 2020 | ... In English | Garrapatas: Son las peque ñas plagas que interrumpen la di... (Source: AARP.org News)
Wednesday 15 July 2020
In this study, we took advantage of the recently compiled spatial dataset of distribution and diversity of ticks in China, analyzed the environmental determinants of ten frequently reported tick species and mapped the spatial distribution of these species over the country using the MaxEnt model. We found that presence of urban fabric, cropland, and forest in a place are key determents of tick occurrence, suggesting ticks were likely inhabited close to where people live. Besides, precipitation in the driest month was found to have a relatively high contribution in mapping tick distribution. The model projected that theses ticks could be widely distributed in the Northwest, Central North, Northeast, and South China. Our results added new evidence on the potential distribution of a variety of...
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Wednesday 15 July 2020
(NEW YORK) — WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne was shocked and hurt when her request to be medically excused for the season was denied by an independent medical panel. Having battled Lyme disease for more than a decade and now taking 64 pills a day, she thought she was definitely going to be considered high-risk to get severe illness if she contracted the coronavirus. The panel of independent doctors the league and union agreed upon to make that decision thought otherwise, ruling Monday that she was not “high risk, and should be permitted to play in the bubble.” The disease is not included on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of underlying conditions that could put someone at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19. The Washington Mystics st...
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Wednesday 15 July 2020
This study was undertaken with the aim of a comparative and quantitative analysis of the epidemiological aspects of LD infections in Korea and Japan from 2011 to 2016. The raw data analyzed in this study were obtained from the websites of the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), Korea, and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Japan. In total 65 cases of LD were observed with a cumulative incidence rate (CIR) of 0.22 per million population in Korea from 2011 to 2016. During the same period in Japan, there were 75 cases of LD with a CIR of 0.10 [significantly higher than that in Korea (p <0.01)]. Further, the results showed that in Korea, LD incidence was slightly higher in women than in men; but in Japan, the case was reverse, with incidence much highe...
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Her lethargy and joint pain suggested a tick-borne illness. Adding to the mystery, was a recent trip abroad a clue or a red herring? (Source: NYT Health)
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Eur Neurol (Source: European Neurology)
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Publication date: December 2020Source: Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, Volume 22Author(s): Rahul Rahangdale, Arthur Alcantara Lima, Ashis Tayal, Nitin Bhanot, Thomas Scott (Source: Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery)
Tuesday 14 July 2020
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 5105: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Tick-Borne Diseases in North-Central Wisconsin from 2000–2016 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17145105 Authors: Austin Rau Claudia Munoz-Zanzi Anna M. Schotthoefer Jonathan D. Oliver Jesse D. Berman Lyme disease is a well-recognized public health problem in the USA, however, other tick-borne diseases also have major public health impacts. Yet, limited research has evaluated changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of non-Lyme tick-borne diseases within endemic regions. Using laboratory data from a large healthcare system in north-central Wisconsin from 2000–2016, we applied a Kulldorf’s scan statistic to analyze spatial, temporal an...
Monday 13 July 2020
Harms and colleagues advised a single dose of doxycycline to prevent Lyme disease from a Ixodes ricinus tick bite.1 Using a modified-intention-to-treat analysis, the authors that reported a single 200 mg dose of doxycycline resulted in a 67% relative risk reduction for the subjects in the treatment arm. (Source: Journal of Infection)
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Friday 10 July 2020
We report the results of gene expression profiling via RNA-sequencing of primary human choroid plexus epithelial cells in vitro that were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Epithelial cells were cultured with B. burgdorferi for 48 hours prior to RNA isolation. Following high-throughput sequencing via Illumina HiSeq 4000, a total of 258 differentially expressed genes were identified. Subsequent data analysis indicates an inflammatory and immune response generated by the epithelial cells following infection, marked by chemotactic cytokines and interferon stimulated genes. Several genes associated with tight and adherens junctions were found to be downregulated. These data represent the first study to investigate the impact of B. burgdorferi on choroid pl...
Thursday 9 July 2020
The financial implications of Lyme disease (LD) can vary widely for both the health system and the individual patients experiencing the disease. The aim of this review was to summarize published data on clinic... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Wednesday 8 July 2020
We examined the effect of a positive serostatus at baseline for selected pathogens associated with chronic infections (Helicobacter pylori,Borrelia burgdorferi sensulato,Toxoplasma gondii, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus 1/2, and human herpesvirus 6) on all-cause mortality with multivariable parametric survival models. We found a reduced survival time in individuals with a positive serostatus forHelicobacter pylori (accelerated failure time (AFT) − 15.92, 95% CI − 29.96; − 1.88), cytomegalovirus (AFT − 22.81, 95% CI − 36.41; − 9.22) andBorrelia burgdorferi sensulato (AFT − 25.25, 95% CI − 43.40; − 7.10), after adjusting for potential confounders. The number of infectious agents an individual was seropositive for had a linear eff...
Tuesday 7 July 2020
(CNN) — After more than three months of shutdowns, mandatory quarantines, self-imposed exile from society and working from home, nature-lovers looking for a well-earned breath of fresh air could face a possible collision course between coronavirus and tick-borne illnesses this summer. A “perfect storm,” warns Eva Sapi, a University of New Haven biology professor and group director for the Lyme Disease Research Group. Noting the mild winter on the East Coast, Sapi says, “We do have a bad year for the ticks.” Hikers, campers and anyone else eager for an escape could “just explode into the outdoors. And there may not be the same thoughtful approach” to preventing exposure, explains Dr. Sorana Segal-Maurer, director of the Dr. James J. Rahal, Jr. Divi...
Tuesday 7 July 2020
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2020Source: The Veterinary JournalAuthor(s): A.L. Hatke, D.R. Green, K. Stasiak, R.T. Marconi (Source: The Veterinary Journal)
Monday 6 July 2020
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
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Monday 6 July 2020
(Harvard Medical School) A $5 million donation to Harvard Medical School will propel Lyme disease research, education (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Sunday 5 July 2020
AbstractModified two-tier testing (MTTT) for Lyme borreliosis (i.e. confirmation with an EIA instead of an immunoblot) has been shown to have improved sensitivity compared with standard two-tier testing (STTT) in samples from American patients, without losing specificity. The current study assesses the sensitivity and specificity of various algorithms of MTTT in European patients with erythema migrans (EM) as a model disease for early Lyme borreliosis, and in appropriate controls. Four different immunoassays were used in the first tier, followed by either an immunoblot or the C6-EIA, or were used as standalone single-tier test. These tests were performed on consecutively collected sera of 228 Dutch patients with physician-diagnosed EM in the setting of general practice, 231 controls from...
Friday 3 July 2020
Publication date: Available online 1 July 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Saied Reza Naddaf, Ahmad Mahmoudi, Ahmad Ghasemi, Mahdi Rohani, Ali Mohammadi, Seyyed Payman Ziapour, Amir Hesam Nemati, Ehsan Mostafavi (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Thursday 2 July 2020
Pathogen specific antibody responses need to be tightly regulated to generate protective but limit self-reactive immune responses. While loss of humoral tolerance has been associated with microbial infections, the pathways involved in balancing protective versus autoreactive antibody responses in humans are incompletely understood. Studies in classical mouse model systems have provided evidence that balancing of immune responses through inhibitory receptors is an important quality control checkpoint. Genetic differences between inbred mouse models and the outbred human population and allelic receptor variants not present in mice, however, argue for caution when directly translating these findings to the human system. By studyingBorrelia burgdorferi infection in humanized mice reconstituted...
Monday 29 June 2020
Title: What Happens if You Go Untreated for Lyme Disease?Category: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/29/2020 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Sunday 28 June 2020
LOW SEROPREVALENCE OF LYME DISEASE AMONG MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Can J Neurol Sci. 2020 Jun 29;:1-11 Authors: MacLean G, Cook P, Lindsay LR, Hatchette TF, Webster D PMID: 32594964 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences)
Thursday 25 June 2020
Authors: Franco-Avecilla D, Yeung C, Baranchuk A PMID: 32575061 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Canadian Medical Association Journal)
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Thursday 25 June 2020
Authors: Semproni M, Rusk R, Wuerz T PMID: 32575059 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Wednesday 24 June 2020
LYME disease is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks, tiny spider-like creatures that dwell in woodland. Untreated Lyme disease can cause a host of debilitating health problems so it is vital to act on the early warning sign. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Tuesday 23 June 2020
Compared to the standard two-tiered testing (STTT) algorithm for Lyme disease serology using an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) followed by Western blotting, data from the United States suggest that a modified two-tiered testing (MTTT) algorithm employing two EIAs has improved sensitivity to detect early localized Borrelia burgdorferi infections without compromising specificity. From 2011 to 2014, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, where Lyme disease is hyperendemic, sera submitted for Lyme disease testing were subjected to a whole-cell EIA, followed by C6 EIA and subsequently IgM and/or IgG immunoblots on sera with EIA-positive or equivocal results. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of the MTTT algorithm compared to the STTT approach in a Nova Scotian population. Retrospective chart revi...
Monday 22 June 2020
Discussion Bradycardia is a heart rate below what the lowest value that is normal for age. Infants and children have higher heart rates that slowly decrease with age to adult levels. It is usually noted as an incidental finding because of increased vagal tone. Reasons for cardiology referral include associated heart murmur, syncope especially if associated with exercise or unusual triggers, other signs such as chest pain or palpitations, family history of sudden cardiac death, congenital heart disease or familial heart disease, bradycardic medication use, or unusual symptoms associated with the concern. Severe bradycardia that causes poor cardiac output is a medical emergency. Fortunately most children have mild bradycardia which may have no symptoms or can manifest as dizziness, syncope, ...
Thursday 18 June 2020
Authors: Slater S Abstract The value of publishing case reports has long been debated and the arguments are summarised. Last year, to encourage trainees, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh's Senior Fellows Club inaugurated an annual prize for the best case report or case series published in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh by a doctor in training. Some of the highlights of last year's entries are reviewed, commented on and developed. They include cases of myelofibrosis and cherubism due to secondary hyperparathyroidism from renal failure; reversible blindness in diabetic ketoacidosis; the long QT syndrome; ictal asystole; giant cell arteritis; tumour necrosis factor-α inhibition in Lyme borreliosis; and cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. PMID: ...
Thursday 18 June 2020
The coronavirus testing debacle, much like early Lyme testing, is a reminder that diagnostics aren't perfect.Undark (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Lyme borreliosis is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in the northern hemisphere.1 Over the last decades, marked increases in the incidence of Lyme borreliosis have been reported in several Western European countries and the United States (US), with substantial impact on public health.2 –6 Erythema migrans is the most common early skin manifestation of the disease, and responds well to antibiotic treatment.7 However, erythema migrans is often not observed preceding disseminated Lyme borreliosis manifestations such as neuroborreliosis, Lyme arthritis and Lyme carditis. (Source: Journal of Infection)
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Tick-borne diseases like Lyme are on the rise in the US, but a survey has found that programmes to assess and control tick populations are lacking (Source: New Scientist - Health)
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Wednesday 17 June 2020
WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2020 -- Tick monitoring and control is lacking in much of the United States despite a steady increase in tick-borne illnesses, such as Lyme disease, a new study finds. In the United States, tick-borne illnesses more than doubled... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Title: What Are the Symptoms of Lyme Disease by Stages?Category: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Wednesday 17 June 2020
(Cornell University) New Cornell-led research shows that inadequate funding is the main barrier to better surveillance and control of ticks, including the blacklegged tick, which spreads Lyme disease, the No. 1 vector-borne illness in the country. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Wednesday 17 June 2020
(Entomological Society of America) While the prevalence of Lyme disease and other illnesses spread by ticks has steadily increased in the United States over the past 20 years, a new study of the state of American tick surveillance and control reveals an inconsistent and often under-supported patchwork of programs across the country. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Tuesday 16 June 2020
This report documents the case of a patient who developed neuropathy that presented as dental pain and was later diagnosed with Lyme disease. A healthy female patient presented to the endodontist with toothache symptoms. Her symptoms included intense pain in the left mandible irradiating into the temporalis area and through her neck and tingling on the lower left lip and left side of her tongue. She also reported feeling of sweats and chills the night before, as well as an altered sensation in her shoulder and arm. (Source: Journal of Endodontics)
Tuesday 16 June 2020
This report documents a case of a patient who developed neuropathy, which presented as dental pain and was later diagnosed with Lyme disease. A healthy female patient presented to the endodontist with toothache symptoms. Her symptoms included intense pain in the left mandible irradiating into the temporalis area and through her neck, tingling on the lower left lip and left side of her tongue. She also reported feeling of sweats and chills the night before, as well as an altered sensation in her shoulder and arm. (Source: Journal of Endodontics)
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Authors: Schubert SL, Melanson VR PMID: 32514548 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Authors: Barsoumian AE, Okulicz JF, Yabes JM PMID: 32514564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Authors: Lowry L, Yabes J, Pomerantz H, Barsoumian AE PMID: 32514575 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
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Wednesday 10 June 2020
CORONAVIRUS symptoms have been shown to range from a dry cough to conjunctivitis, but some of these symptoms are also linked to other conditions such as Lyme disease. How can you tell the difference between COVID-19 and Lyme disease? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 3 June 2020
For some people, the symptoms of Lyme disease never go away after treatment. Now we have clues about why this happens, supporting the idea that " chronic Lyme " really does exist (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Authors: Masouris I, Klein M, Ködel U Abstract INTRODUCTION: Central nervous system (CNS) infections can be life-threatening and are often associated with disabling sequelae. One important factor in most CNS infections is a timely pathogen-specific treatment. The diagnostic methods available, however, do not always reach a satisfying sensitivity and specificity. In these cases, there is need for additional diagnostic biomarkers. Chemokines represent potential candidates as biomarkers, since they are an important pillar of the host immune response. The aim of this review is to discuss the diagnostic potential of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) CXCL13 in patients with CNS infections. AREAS COVERED: Data were obtained from a literature search in PubMed up to October 2019. This review f...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
With America on lockdown the past two months, many people turned to the woods for safe isolation and social distancing. And now as sections of the country reopen and summer approaches, the outdoors...(PRWeb June 02, 2020)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/knowing_signs_and_symptoms_of_lyme_disease_is_critical_for_early_detection_and_treatment_says_industry_leading_quidel/prweb17162063.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Sunday 31 May 2020
Authors: Rochlin I, Toledo A Abstract Ticks are the most important vectors of human pathogens, leading to increased public health burdens worldwide. Tick-borne pathogens include viruses (e.g. tick-borne encephalitis and Powassan); bacteria, such as the causative agents of Lyme disease, spotted fever rickettsiosis and human anaplasmosis; and malaria-like protozoan parasites causing babesiosis. Tick-borne diseases are emerging due to the geographical expansion of their tick vectors, especially in the northern hemisphere. Two examples of this phenomenon are Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum, which have expanded their ranges in the USA in recent decades and are responsible for the continuous emergence of Lyme disease and human ehrlichiosis, respectively. This phenomenon is als...
Saturday 30 May 2020
A series of cases in the Northeast of the US during 2013 –2015 described a new Borrelia species, Borrelia miyamotoi, which is transmitted by the same tick species that transmits Lyme disease and causes a relapsing... (Source: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials)
Friday 29 May 2020
This case describes an unusual dermatologic presentation of Lyme disease, borrelial lymphocytoma, which is rare in the US but more common in Europe.Journal of Medical Case Reports (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Thursday 28 May 2020
In 2019, the tick testing program, headed by Upstate Professor Saravanan Thangamani, PhD, received 1,921 tick samples from July through late October. About 25 percent of the ticks were found to carry Lyme disease. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
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Thursday 28 May 2020
Mitochondria, chloroplasts and several species of bacteria have outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that perform many essential biological functions. The β -barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex is one of the OMPs of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogenic spirochete that causes Lyme disease, and its BamA component (BbBamA) includes a C-terminal β -barrel domain and five N-terminal periplasmic polypeptide-transport-associated (POTRA) domains, which together perform a central transport function. In the current work, the production, crystallization and X-ray analysis of the three N-terminal POTRA domains of BbBamA (BbBamA-POTRA P1 – P3; residues 30 – 273) were carried out. The crystals of BbBamA-POTRA P1 – P3 belonged to space group P21, with unit-cell parameters a = 45.353, b = 111.538, c...
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Monday 25 May 2020
The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease relies upon serologic testing. A standard or modified two-tiered testing algorithm is used to enhance the accuracy of antibody detection. However, this approach suffers from a lack of sensitivity in early Lyme disease. Ongoing efforts to develop more sensitive antibody detection technologies and other diagnostic approaches are dependent upon the availability of quality-assured biospecimens linked to reliable clinical data. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Horn et al. (E. J. Horn, G. Dempsey, A. M. Schotthoefer, U. L. Prisco, et al., J Clin Microbiol 58:e00032-20, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00032-20) described the development of the Lyme Disease Biobank. Clinically categorized case patients with early Lyme disease and hea...
Monday 25 May 2020
Lyme disease (LD) is an increasing public health problem. Current laboratory testing is insensitive in early infection, the stage at which appropriate treatment is most effective in preventing disease sequelae. The Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB) collects samples from individuals with symptoms consistent with early LD presenting with or without erythema migrans (EM) or an annular, expanding skin lesion and uninfected individuals from areas of endemicity. Samples were collected from 550 participants (298 cases and 252 controls) according to institutional review board-approved protocols and shipped to a centralized biorepository. Testing was performed to confirm the presence of tick-borne pathogens by real-time PCR, and a subset of samples was tested for Borrelia burgdorferi by culture. Serology ...
Monday 25 May 2020
As warm weather sends people outdoors, some are encountering tenacious pests. Ticks go for blood in the hardest-to-reach places on the human body and put you at risk for Lyme disease. Here's what you need to know about staying tick-safe. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Monday 25 May 2020
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Physicians and the public should be aware of the different presentations of Lyme disease, as people spend more time outside in the warmer weather and as areas in Canada where the black legged tick is found expand. Three articles in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), which describe a fatal case in a 37-year-old man, atypical skin lesions in a 56-year-old woman and severe neurological symptoms in a 4-year-old boy, illustrate the diversity in presentations. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Friday 22 May 2020
(Virginia Tech) With a $661,216 grant from the Steven& Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Brandon Jutras, an assistant professor of biochemistry in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will study Lyme arthritis, including the cellular component that contributes to it. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 20 May 2020
In this study, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was employed to investigate the local population structure of B. garinii in Ixodes ricinus ticks. The study took place in a natural wetland in Slovakia, temporally encompassing spring and autumn bird migration periods as well as the breeding period of resident birds. In total, we examined 369 and 255 ticks collected from 78 birds and local vegetation, respectively. B. burgdorferi s.l. was detected in 43.4% (160/369) of ticks recovered from birds and in 26.3% (67/255) of questing ticks, respectively. Considering the ticks from bird hosts, the highest prevalence was found for single infections with B. garinii (22.5%). Infection intensity of B. garinii in bird-feeding ticks was significantly higher than that in questing ticks. We identified ten...
Wednesday 20 May 2020
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Tuesday 19 May 2020
Borrelia burgdorferi encodes a functional homolog of canonical Lon protease termed Lon-2. In addition, B. burgdorferi encodes a second Lon homolog called Lon-1. Recent studies suggest that Lon-1 may function differently from the prototypical Lon protease. However, the function of Lon-1 in B. burgdorferi biology remains virtually unknown. Particularly, the contribution of Lon-1 to B. burgdorferi fitness and infection remains hitherto unexplored. Herein, we show that Lon-1 plays a critical role for the infection of B. burgdorferi in a mammalian host. We found that lon-1 was highly expressed during animal infection, implying an important function of this protein in bacterial infection. We further generated a lon-1 deletion mutant and an isogenic complemented strain. Relative to that of the wi...
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Monday 18 May 2020
Spirochetes of the genus Borrelia are divided into relapsing fever borreliae and Lyme disease borreliae. Immunoserological assays have been poorly developed for relapsing fever borreliae, where direct detection methods are more adapted to the pathophysiology of these infections presenting with massive bacteraemia. However, emergence of the novel agent of relapsing fever B. miyamotoi has renewed interest in serology in this context. In Lyme disease, because direct detection methods show low sensitivity, serology plays a central role in the diagnostic strategy. This diagnostic strategy is based on a two-tier methodology involving a first test (ELISA) with high sensitivity and acceptable specificity and a second, more specific test (western blot) for diagnostic confirmation. The most frequent...
Monday 18 May 2020
Opinion du comité No 399 : Prise en charge des morsures de tiques et de la maladie de Lyme pendant la grossesse: (In English: Management of Tick Bites and Lyme Disease During Pregnancy). J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2020 May;42(5):654-664 Authors: Smith GN, Moore KM, Hatchette TF, Nicholson J, Bowie W, Langley JM PMID: 32414480 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada : JOGC)
Monday 18 May 2020
Committee Opinion No. 399: Management of Tick Bites and Lyme Disease During Pregnancy: (En français : Prise en charge des morsures de tiques et de la maladie de Lyme pendant la grossesse). J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2020 May;42(5):644-653 Authors: Smith GN, Moore KM, Hatchette TF, Nicholson J, Bowie W, Langley JM Abstract OBJECTIVE: Lyme disease is an emerging infection in Canada caused by the bacterium belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex, which is transmitted via the bite of an infected blacklegged tick. Populations of blacklegged ticks continue to expand and are now established in different regions in Canada. It usually takes more than 24 hours of tick attachment to transfer B. burgdorferi to a human. The diagnosis of early localized Lyme di...
Thursday 14 May 2020
Authors: Melenotte C, Mezouar S, Mège JL, Gorvel JP, Kroemer G, Raoult D Abstract One quarter of all cancers are linked to infectious diseases. The link between viral infection and cancer has been widely studied, but few reports have focused on the carcinogenic role of bacterial infection. Nonetheless, Helicobacter pylori, Chlamydia psittaci, Coxiella burnetii, Borrelia burgdorferi and Campylobacter jejuni are bacteria that can be associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), the most common haematologic malignancy. Here, we review the evidence in favour of a link between these bacterial infections and NHL. Sero-epidemiological observation makes it possible to identify a link between H. pylori, C. burnetii, B. burgdorferi infection and NHL. Helicobacter pylori, Chlamydia psittaci,...
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Publication date: Available online 11 May 2020Source: IDCasesAuthor(s): Cynthia Yeung, Naomi Gazendam, Adrian Baranchuk (Source: IDCases)
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Wednesday 6 May 2020
Conclusion: Diagnostic improvements in sensitivity of LD testing without significant loss of specificity have been consistently reported when MTTT is compared with STTT in studies conducted in highly LD endemic regions. Our working group agrees with the recommendation by the United States Centers for Disease Control that serological testing for LD using MTTT is an acceptable alternative to STTT. This recommendation is contingent on development and implementation of comprehensive validation studies on the performance of MTTT vs STTT within the Canadian context, including evaluation of the test performance in areas of low endemicity for LD. PMID: 32558809 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Can Commun Dis Rep)
Monday 4 May 2020
We report the case of an older patient presenting with bilateral facial palsy due to Lyme disease. Multiple non-specific clinical signs preceded facial palsy with falls, fatigue and pain of both legs especially during the night. Our case illustrates the difficulty to diagnose this infectious disease, especially in older patients who have rare outdoor activities and a low risk of tick exposure. (Source: Age and Ageing)
Sunday 3 May 2020
"Candidatus Borrelia ibitipoquensis," a Borrelia valaisiana-Related Genospecies Characterized from Ixodes paranaensis in Brazil. Microb Ecol. 2020 May 04;: Authors: Muñoz-Leal S, Ramirez DG, Luz HR, Faccini JLH, Labruna MB Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl) spirochetes include the agents of Lyme borreliosis in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and merge their transmission cycles mainly with ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. Twenty genospecies compose Bbsl currently, and with the exception of Borrelia chilensis, and Borrelia garinii, all have been described only for North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Here, we collected specimens of Ixodes paranaensis, a tick associated with swifts in a Brazilian natural park from the state of Min...
Friday 1 May 2020
BOSTON (CBS) — As Massachusetts continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the public has plenty of questions. Dr. Mallika Marshall answered some of those sent to WBZ-TV’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. With the upcoming season, we already have troubles with ticks and Lyme disease and mosquitoes and their diseases. How is the coronavirus going to affect this problem? – Ken from north of Boston Coronavirus is not spread by mosquitoes or ticks, but you’re right, we still have to protect ourselves from insect-borne diseases like Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus. So I would do what we normally do to avoid these insects: use protective clothing and insect repellant and avoid the times of day and locations where they thrive. If I self-isolate for more than two ...
Thursday 30 April 2020
Authors: Pace EJ, O'Reilly M Abstract Tickborne diseases that affect patients in the United States include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, tularemia, Colorado tick fever, and tickborne relapsing fever. Tickborne diseases are increasing in incidence and should be suspected in patients presenting with flulike symptoms during the spring and summer months. Prompt diagnosis and treatment can prevent complications and death. Location of exposure, identification of the specific tick vector, and evaluation of rash, if present, help identify the specific disease. Lyme disease presents with an erythema migrans rash in 70% to 80% of patients, and treatment may be initiated based on this finding alone. RMSF presents with a macular rash...
Thursday 30 April 2020
Authors: Rauer S, Kastenbauer S, Hofmann H, Fingerle V, Huppertz HI, Hunfeld KP, Krause A, Ruf B, Dersch R, Consensus group Abstract Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. A neurological manifestation occurs in 3-15% of infections and can manifest as polyradiculitis, meningitis and (rarely) encephalomyelitis. This S3 guideline is directed at physicians in private practices and clinics who treat Lyme neuroborreliosis in children and adults. Twenty AWMF member societies, the Robert Koch Institute, the German Borreliosis Society and three patient organisations participated in its development. A systematic review and assessment of the literature was conducted by the German Cochrane Centre, Freiburg (Cochrane Germany). The main objectives of this gu...
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Thursday 30 April 2020
(Washington State University) The next time a tick feeds on you, Washington State University researchers hope to make sure persistent arthritis caused by Lyme disease doesn't linger for a lifetime. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Wednesday 29 April 2020
Publication date: 2020Source: Methods in Microbiology, Volume 47Author(s): Charles S. Pavia (Source: Methods in Microbiology)
Wednesday 22 April 2020
The cover image is based on the Original Research Patient ‐reported outcome after treatment for definite Lyme neuroborreliosis by Randi Eikeland et al.,https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1595 (Source: Brain and Behavior)
Wednesday 22 April 2020
Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. Bio-Rad Laboratories has developed a fully automated multiplex bead-based assay for the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to B. burgdorferi. The BioPlex 2200 Lyme Total assay exhibits an improved rate of seropositivity in patients with early Lyme infection. Asymptomatic subjects from endemic and nonendemic origins demonstrated a seroreactivity rate of approximately 4% that was similar to other commercial assays evaluated in this study. Coupled to this result was the observation that the Lyme Total assay retained a high first-tier specificity of 96% while demonstrating a relatively high sensitivity of 91% among a well-characterized CDC Premarketing Lyme serum panel. The Lyme Total assay also pe...
Monday 20 April 2020
In this study, we developed a new filter-based chemical extraction technique that allows measurement of high quality Borrelia spp. spectra from less than 100,000 bacteria per spot in MALDI-TOF MS. We used 49 isolates of 13 different species to produce the largest mass-library for Borrelia spp. so far and to validate the protocol. The library was successfully established and identifies >96% of used isolates correctly to species level. Cluster analysis on the sum spectra was applied to all the different isolates, which resulted in tight cluster generation for most species. Comparative analysis of the generated cluster to a phylogeny based on concatenated multi-locus sequence typing genes provided a surprising homology. Our data demonstrate that the technique described here can be used for...
Sunday 19 April 2020
In this study, we demonstrated that immunization with CspZ-YA, a CspZ mutant protein with no FH-binding activity, protected mice from infection by several spirochete genotypes introduced via tick feeding. We found that the sera from CspZ-YA-vaccinated mice more efficiently eliminated spirochetes and blocked CspZ FH-binding activity than sera from CspZ-immunized mice. We also found that vaccination with CspZ, but not CspZ-YA, triggered the production of anti-FH antibodies, justifying CspZ-YA as an LD vaccine candidate. The mechanistic and efficacy information derived from this study provides insights into the development of a CspZ-based LD vaccine. (Source: Infection and Immunity)
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Friday 17 April 2020
Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia species transmitted by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. Human disease caused by B. miyamotoi was first described in Russia and later in the USA and Japan. Addi... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Thursday 16 April 2020
Primary care is likely to see the highest number of Lyme disease patients. Despite this, there is limited published data regarding Lyme disease patients accessing primary care in the UK. We aim to describe tre... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Wednesday 15 April 2020
The B-cell chemoattractant CXCL13 has been suggested as a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker for Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB). Our aim was to substantiate the value of CXCL13 in a large unselected cohort and determine a practical cut-off value to diagnose LNB. (Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
Wednesday 15 April 2020
ConclusionsBorrelial lymphocytoma is a rare manifestation of Lyme disease in North America, although not uncommon in Europe. Diagnosis is made by the presence of a painless erythematous swelling typically found on the ear lobe, nipples, or testes. Laboratory tests are available but with low sensitivity, therefore, a high index of suspicion is necessary for a clinical diagnosis to be made. Treatment for isolated borrelial lymphocytoma is doxycycline 4 mg/kg up to 100 mg twice daily, whereas for children less than 8 years of age amoxicillin 50 mg/kg divided three times daily, for 3–4 weeks, is preferred. (Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports)
Tuesday 14 April 2020
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Tuesday 14 April 2020
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Sunday 12 April 2020
This study compared 113 patients with AF to 109 patients without AF from a convenience sample of routine ambulatory care patients treated in one outpatient cardiology clinic. (Source: The American Journal of Cardiology)
Sunday 12 April 2020
WASHINGTON — Blood tests for the coronavirus could play a key role in deciding whether millions of Americans can safely return to work and school. But public health officials warn that the current “Wild West” of unregulated tests is creating confusion that could ultimately slow the path to recovery. More than 70 companies have signed up to sell so-called antibody tests in recent weeks, according to U.S. regulators. Governments around the world hope that the rapid tests, which typically use a finger-prick of blood on a test strip, could soon ease public restrictions by identifying people who have previously had the virus and have developed some immunity to it. But key questions remain: How accurate are the tests, how much protection is needed and how long will that protec...
Friday 10 April 2020
To monitor the adoption of climate change adaptive behaviors in the population, public health authorities have to conduct national surveys, which can help them target vulnerable subpopulations. To ensure relia... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Thursday 9 April 2020
With Lyme disease on the rise, people need to take special care to avoid tick encounters amid the COVID-19 crisis. (Source: Science - The Huffington Post)
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Publication date: Available online 8 April 2020Source: IDCasesAuthor(s): Brian Cheung, Larry Lutwick, Michelle Cheung (Source: IDCases)
Wednesday 8 April 2020
(Bloomberg) — There are four critical facets of pandemic prevention, according to Lee Hannah, senior scientist at Conservation International. Three of them make immediate sense against the backdrop of our current emergency: stockpile masks and respirators; have testing infrastructure ready; and ban the global wildlife trade, including the open animal markets where COVID-19 may have first infected people. His fourth recommendation is more grandiose: “Take care of nature.” The assault on ecosystems that allowed COVID-19 to jump from animals to humans went far beyond merchants hunting and selling rare wildlife. Biodiversity—that is, the health of the entire ecosystem—can restrain pathogens before they ever leave the wild. “We need to tell people right now t...
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Tuesday 7 April 2020
The deer tick Ixodes scapularis transmits a variety of disease agents in the United States, spreading the bacteria that causes Lyme borreliosis, the protozoan agent of babesiosis, and viruses such as Powassan. However, a variety of other organisms have also evolved symbiotic relationships with this tick species, and it seems likely that some of these microbes have simultaneously coevolved mechanisms to impact each other and their tick host. The number of organisms identified as I. scapularis symbionts has increased seemingly exponentially with the advent of PCR and next generation sequencing technologies, but convincing arguments have proposed that some of these are of environmental origin, unadapted to surviving the physiological conditions of the tick or that they are artifacts of ultras...
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Tuesday 7 April 2020
Ixodes ricinus constitutes the main European vector tick for the Lyme borreliosis pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato), the relapsing fever borrelia Borrelia miyamotoi, as well as Anaplasma phagocytophilum ... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Monday 6 April 2020
Prepare for tick season by reviewing these five things to know about Lyme disease testing.CDC Expert Commentary (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Sunday 5 April 2020
Authors: Duan J, Zhao Y, Zhang X, Jiang H, Xie B, Zhao T, Zhao F Abstract Leptospira interrogans, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Treponema pallidum are important pathogenic spirochetes. The incidence of human diseases caused by pathogenic spirochetes, e.g., leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and syphilis, has been recently increasing, posing a threat to public health. Mechanisms of spirochete pathogenicity are not yet fully understood, and no safe and effective vaccine to prevent and control the infection by pathogenic spirochetes is currently available.In this article, we review the progress of research into the pathogenic spirochete vaccine, mainly in terms of vaccine types.The development of relevant vaccines against pathogenic spirochetes has generally proceeded via several stages, such a...
Sunday 5 April 2020
I read with interest the editorial by Strom1 about functional neurologic disorders (FNDs). As a treating physician, I have struggled with the multiple diagnostic labels attached to these patients by physicians of different medical specialties during the course of their clinical disease presentation. A neurologist may assign a patient who presents with chronic fatigue the diagnostic labels of narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, or chronic Lyme disease. A rheumatologist may assign the label of collagen vascular disease, and a psychiatrist may diagnose depression. This diagnostic ambiguity is troublesome for patients and clinicians alike. I contend that even the term FND needs to be revisited. A patient should be broadly labeled as having a functional disorder and only after characterization ...
Friday 3 April 2020
We examined gene expression patterns in the blood of individuals with early disseminated LD at the time of diagnosis (Acute LD) and also at approximately 1 month and 6 months following antibiotic treatment. A distinct acute LD profile was observed that was sustained during early convalescence (1 month) but returned to control levels six months after treatment. Using a computer learning algorithm, we identified sets of 20 classifier genes that discriminate LD from other bacterial and viral infections. In addition, these novel LD biomarkers are highly acurate in distinvuishing patients with acute LD from healthy subjects and in discriminating between individuals with active and resolved infecitons. This computational approach offers the potential for more accurate diagnosis of early dissmina...
Saturday 28 March 2020
Purpose of review Lyme disease is an important, vector-borne infection found throughout the temperate Northern hemisphere. The disease causes rash, acute systemic illness, and in some untreated patients, inflammatory arthritis. This review examines the emergence, clinical features and management of early Lyme disease and Lyme arthritis. Recent findings There has been continuing progress in characterizing the clinical manifestations, diagnostic testing and treatment of Lyme disease. Almost all patients with early Lyme disease can be cured with antibiotic treatment. In most cases, Lyme arthritis also responds to antibiotics, but some patients require additional treatment approaches. Summary The diagnosis of Lyme disease is based on clinical manifestations and adjunctive laboratory te...
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Tuesday 24 March 2020
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Aris Garro, Miriam Dash, John M. VanBuren, Lise E. Nigrovic, for Pedi Lyme Net (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Credit: United Nations By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 2020 (IPS) When US President Donald Trump repeatedly characterized the fast-spreading COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” last week, it prompted some white supremacists to resurrect an age old ethnic slur against Chinese and East Asians: the “Yellow Peril” which, in a bygone era, was touted as a xenophobic threat to the Western world. But Tendayi Achiume, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia, is highly critical of the racist interpretation to a disease which has claimed over 16,500 deaths worldwide and accounted for more than 378,000 infections, with the epicenter shifting from China to Europe. Singling out Trump, she said: it’s dismaying, however, “to witness State off...
Sunday 22 March 2020
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the causative agent of tick-borne Lyme borreliosis (LB), has a limited metabolic capacity and needs to acquire nutrients, such as amino acids, fatty acids, and nucleic acids, from the host environment. Using X-ray crystallography, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, microscale thermophoresis, and cellular localization studies, we show that basic membrane protein D (BmpD) is a periplasmic substrate-binding protein of an ABC transporter system binding to purine nucleosides. Nucleosides are essential for bacterial survival in the host organism, and these studies suggest a key role for BmpD in the purine salvage pathway of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Because B. burgdorferi sensu lato lacks the enzymes required for de novo purine synthesis, BmpD may play a v...
Sunday 22 March 2020
This article presents the proof-of-concept study for a multivalent OspA vaccine targeting a wide range of pathogenic LB Borrelia species with a single recombinant antigen for prevention of Lyme borreliosis. (Source: Infection and Immunity)
Sunday 22 March 2020
SUNDAY, March 22, 2020 -- Where you put leaves raked from your yard last fall could affect your family's risk of bites from ticks that transmit Lyme disease-causing bacteria, a new study suggests. In areas where Lyme-causing ticks are prevalent,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Thursday 19 March 2020
Publication date: 17 March 2020Source: Cell Reports, Volume 30, Issue 11Author(s): Abdul G. Lone, Troy Bankhead (Source: Cell Reports)
Tuesday 17 March 2020
CONCLUSIONS: The intrathecal immune reaction in LNB is characterized by B cell associated chemokines. Whether the combination CXCL13/CCL19 further improves discrimination between LNB and NLAM beyond the diagnostic improvements by CXCL13 alone needs to be tested in new studies. PMID: 32199247 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Cytokine)
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Monday 16 March 2020
Authors: Ettischer-Schmid N, Preyer R Abstract We have read the research article entitled "Prospective comparison of two enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assays for the diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis" by van Gorkom T, Voet W, Sankatsing SUC, Nijhuis CDM, Ter Haak E, Kremer K and Thijsen SFT published in Clinical and Experimental Immunology (2019 Oct 30. https://doi.org/10.1111/cei.13393) (1). We want to congratulate the authors for the publishing of this article, and make some remarks and contributions. PMID: 32180218 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical and Developmental Immunology)
Sunday 15 March 2020
Authors: Yeung C, Al-Turki M, Baranchuk A Abstract Lyme carditis (LC) is an early-disseminated manifestation of Lyme disease, most commonly presenting as high-degree atrioventricular block (AVB). The degree of AVB can fluctuate rapidly within minutes, and progression to third-degree AVB is potentially fatal if not recognized and managed promptly. However, the AVB in LC is often transient, and usually resolves with appropriate antibiotic therapy. LC should be on the differential diagnosis in young patients presenting with new high-degree AVB and factors that increase the index of suspicion for Lyme disease. The Suspicious Index in Lyme Carditis (SILC) score helps clinicians risk stratify for LC. A systematic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of LC minimizes the unnecessary imp...
Saturday 14 March 2020
Lyme disease is a tick-borne spirochete illness with multi-system involvement. Although neurological manifestations of Lyme disease are becoming increasingly well recognized, its psychiatric presentations are not well known. Physicians need to be aware of its neuropsychiatric symptoms that may present months to years later. Endemic areas to Borellia Burgdorferi also have higher rates of schizophrenia. Prompt diagnosis and effective treatment is need to to avoid irreversible neuropsychiatric complications. (Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)
Friday 13 March 2020
AbstractThe role of CXCL13 as a marker of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is under investigation, and CXCL13 is not part of routine diagnostics in suspicion of LNB. Our aim was to find the optimal cut-off value of CXCL13 for LNB in a Danish population and to investigate the role of CXCL13 both in early LNB and as a discriminatory marker between LNB and other neuroinflammatory disorders. We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study including all patients with a cerebrospinal CXCL13 test performed at the Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark, between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2018. We included 619 patients, of which 51 had definite LNB, 14 patients had possible LNB with neurological symptoms suggestive of LNB and pleocytosis but no intrathecalBorrelia ...
Friday 13 March 2020
Lyme disease experts are not surprised by CDC's failure to ensure quick diagnosis of COVID-19. It's failed for 25 years to fix a broken Lyme test. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Thursday 12 March 2020
This study aimed to assess whether the serological history of Borrelia infection was associated with the risk of AF. The study included 113 AF patients and 109 patients in sinus rhythm. All patients underwent a clinical evaluation, echocardiography and had t heir blood taken for the assessment of anti-Borrelia IgG antibodies. (Source: The American Journal of Cardiology)
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Thursday 12 March 2020
Conclusion: Both diagnosis and ruling out of disseminated Lyme Borreliosis can be difficult for general practitioners. General practitioners use serological tests to reassure patients and rule out Lyme Borreliosis, thereby deviating from the national guideline. Interpretation of test results in these cases can be difficult. PMID: 32157944 [PubMed - in process] (Source: European Journal of General Practice)
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Authors: Jiří Černý Geoffrey Lynn Johana Hrnková Maryna Golovchenko Natalia Rudenko Libor Grubhoffer Ticks are important human and animal parasites and vectors of many infectious disease agents. Control of tick activity is an effective tool to reduce the risk of contracting tick-transmitted diseases. The castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) is the most common tick species in Europe. It is also a vector of the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis, which are two of the most important arthropod-borne diseases in Europe. In recent years, increases in tick activity and incidence of tick-borne diseases have been observed in many European countries. These increases are linked to many ecological and anthropogenic factors such as landscape management, c...
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Publication date: Available online 10 March 2020Source: Journal of Theoretical BiologyAuthor(s): Daniel Carrera-Pineyro, Harley Hanes, Adam Litzler, Andrea McCormack, Josean Velazquez-Molina, Anuj Mubayi, Karen Ríos-Soto, Christopher Kribs (Source: Journal of Theoretical Biology)
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Supporting entrepreneurs can take many forms from grants to providing access to capital and from expanding their networks of mentors and peers to providing training that addresses both hard and soft skills. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Tuesday 10 March 2020
ConclusionsResults on validated PROM questionnaires measuring fatigue, anxiety, depression, self ‐reported somatic symptom burden, and physical health‐related quality did not differ between persons treated for definite NB 1–10 years earlier and reference scores. NB‐treated persons tended to report a slightly poorer mental health‐related quality of life than found in normative data, b ut when adjusting for confounders the causative connection is questionable. Overall, the long‐term prognosis of definite NB seems to be good. (Source: Brain and Behavior)
Monday 9 March 2020
Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, EarlyView. (Source: Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface)
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Sunday 8 March 2020
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Thursday 5 March 2020
(Columbia University) A new model based on 17 years of data can help predict the trajectory of where Lyme disease will spread. Identifying high-risk areas can lead to surveillance in counties and areas where infections are likely to emerge. It also allows authorities to alert physicians and the public, which can lead to early treatment, when it is most effective. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Conclusions: This study found a high incidence of Lyme disease in Lithuania. We elucidated the baseline characteristics regarding the infected Lithuanian population which may ease medical clinicians' work on new Lyme diagnoses. PMID: 32151097 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medicina (Kaunas))
Tuesday 3 March 2020
The reach of Lyme disease is expanding across the U.S., and cases may be under-reported. A recent CDC case report describes the experiences of two patients with fatal cases of Lyme carditis... (Source: The Rheumatologist)
Monday 2 March 2020
Authors: Strnad M, Rego ROM Abstract Lyme borreliosis is a vector-borne infection caused by bacteria under the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, both in Europe and North America. Differential gene expression at different times throughout its infectious cycle allows the spirochete to survive very diverse environments within different mammalian hosts as well as the tick vector. To date, the vast majority of data about spirochetal proteins and their functions are from genetic studies carried out on North American strains of a single species, i.e. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto. The whole-genome sequences recently obtained for several European species/strains make it feasible to adapt and use genetic techniques to study inherent differences between them. This review highlights the...
Monday 2 March 2020
Publication date: Available online 2 March 2020Source: Journal of Structural BiologyAuthor(s): Kalvis Brangulis, Inara Akopjana, Ivars Petrovskis, Andris Kazaks, Kaspars Tars (Source: Journal of Structural Biology)
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Sunday 1 March 2020
The black-legged (or deer) tick, Ixodes scapularis, commonly infests dogs in the USA and is the vector of important zoonotic pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Rapid o... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Saturday 29 February 2020
CONCLUSIONS: This review has concentrated on I scapularis-transmitted diseases affecting the Upper Midwest and has explored the ecology of the I scapularis vector and its role in pathogen transmission. PMID: 32348066 [PubMed - in process] (Source: WMJ)
Saturday 29 February 2020
Authors: Cairns V PMID: 32107217 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The British Journal of General Practice)
Thursday 27 February 2020
In this study, we explored and compared the climatic and landscape factors that shape the spatial patterns of human Lyme cases in these two regions, using the generalized linear mixed models. Our results showed that climatic variables generally had opposite correlations with Lyme disease risk, while landscape factors usually had similar effects in these two regions. High precipitation and low temperature were correlated with high Lyme disease risk in the Upper Midwest, while with low Lyme disease risk in the Northeast. In both regions, size and fragmentation related factors of residential area showed positive correlations with Lyme disease risk. Deciduous forests and evergreen forests had opposite effects on Lyme disease risk, but the effects were consistent between two regions. In general...
Thursday 27 February 2020
Publication date: Available online 26 February 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Seunghee Lee, Hyunkyoung Lee, Jung-Won Park, Soon-Seek Yoon, Hyun-Ji Seo, Jinhyeong Noh, Mi-Sun Yoo, Keun-Ho Kim, Yeojin Park, Yun Sang Cho, Byung Jae So (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
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Wednesday 26 February 2020
Mainstream medicine has failed many Lyme disease patients. It's fast becoming irrelevant. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Lyme endocarditis is extremely rare manifestation of Lyme disease. The clinical manifestations of Lyme endocarditis are non-specific and can be very challenging diagnosis to make when it is the only manifestation of the disease. Until now, only a few cases where reported. Physicians should keep in mind the possibility of borrelial etiology of endocarditis in endemic areas. Appropriate valve tissue sample should be sent for histopathology, culture, and PCR especially in case of endocarditis of unknown origin PCR on heart valve samples is recommended. With more frequent PCR, Borrelia spp. may be increasingly found as a cause of infective endocarditis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of Lyme carditis may prevent surgical treatment and pacemaker implantations. Due to climate change and global w...
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Publication date: Available online 24 February 2020Source: IDCasesAuthor(s): Abhimanyu Aggarwal, Denzil Reid, Durane Walker (Source: IDCases)
Monday 24 February 2020
In conclusion, a European cohort of adult patients with LNB diagnosed between 2015 to 2017 presented with classic symptoms and CSF findings. However, a substantial diagnostic delay was still observed. In disagreement with current guidelines, a substantial part of LNB patients were treated with antibiotics longer than 14 days and/or intravenously as route of administration. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Monday 24 February 2020
This cluster of Lyme disease cases in North Carolina indicates that the disease may be expanding further south.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Sunday 23 February 2020
The incidence of tick-borne infections in the United States has risen significantly in the past decade. Ticks can transmit a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, protozoa, and viruses, that can cause serious illnesses. Therefore, the use of rapid, sensitive, and specific multiplex tests is important to identify the pathogen(s) in the acute phase and determine appropriate treatment to minimize the severity of the disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ChromaCode’s research use only (RUO) nine-target high-definition PCR (HDPCR) tick-borne pathogen (TBP) panel using 379 retrospective, remnant whole-blood and synovial fluid specimens previously submitted to Associated Regional and University Pathologists (ARUP) Laboratories and tested by clinically validated real-time PC...
Sunday 23 February 2020
(Source: Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
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Saturday 22 February 2020
LYME disease is a bacterial infection that is passed on to humans by infected ticks. High-risk areas include grassy and wooded areas, making that leisurely stroll not seem so idyllic any more. Look for a sign on your knee that you may be needing a visit to your doctors pronto. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 21 February 2020
(Frontiers) A preclinical in vitro study shows that selected plant-based herbal medicines, especially Ghanaian quinine and Japanese knotweed, work better than antibiotics against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. These findings represent an important step towards the development of treatments that might be better tolerated and more effective than the current standard of care. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Thursday 20 February 2020
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which could lead to severe physical and mental problems if not diagnosed at an early stage. Spotting the early warning signs will ensure prompt treatment and noticing this peculiar feeling in the head could mean you're at risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 19 February 2020
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which could lead to severe physical and mental problems if not diagnosed at an early stage. Spotting the early warning signs will ensure prompt treatment and noticing this peculiar feeling in the head could mean you're at risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 14 February 2020
Authors: Nijman G, van Kooten B, Vermeeren YM, van Hees BC, Zomer TP PMID: 32070633 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine)
Thursday 13 February 2020
We present a suspected pediatric case of POWV infection in northern Wisconsin. PMID: 32060042 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Medicine and Research)
Thursday 13 February 2020
Lyme disease (LD) is an increasing public health threat in temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, yet relatively few methods exist for reducing LD risk in endemic areas. Disrupting the LD transmission cyc... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Tuesday 11 February 2020
ORONO, Maine (AP) — More than a third of the deer ticks submitted to a Maine lab last year tested positive for Lyme disease, a surveillance report from the lab said. The report is from the University of Maine Tick Lab. The lab found that a smaller percentage of ticks tested positive for anaplasmosis and babesiosis, which are other tick-borne diseases. The tick lab’s manager, Griffin Dill, said the information will help authorities learn how fast the ticks are spreading in the state. The study is the first of its kind in Maine, the Bangor Daily news reported. The report found that just shy of 39% of deer ticks tested positive for Lyme. The data also show ticks were more frequently found higher on the bodies of children than adults. Lyme disease can cause symptoms such as neck stiffn...
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Conclusions: The interleukin-6/interleukin-10 ratio can be used as a rapid diagnostic cue upon suspected tick-borne infection, enabling fast and correct treatment. Also, in serology-negative results, such information may strengthen a clinical suspicion. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Saturday 8 February 2020
Climate change could nearly double new cases of Lyme disease by the end of the century in the US, even if the world manages to limit warming to levels agreed under the Paris climate deal (Source: New Scientist - Health)
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Friday 7 February 2020
We report here the validation of a duplex real-time PCR assay using whole blood specimens on the Luminex ARIES® instrument, combining DNA extraction, amplification and detection into a one-step process. This method allows for rapid and sensitive detection of acute infections with Ehrlichia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum using whole blood specimens. We included A. phagocytophilum to monitor emergence of this pathogen in Kentucky, since surrounding states have reported many more cases than Kentucky. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Thursday 6 February 2020
Engineers with the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into your phone, connecting it automatically to a doctor's office through a custom app UC developed. The lab the size of a credit card can diagnose infectious diseases such as coronavirus, malaria, HIV or Lyme disease or countless other health conditions like depression and anxiety. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Thursday 6 February 2020
Engineers with the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into your phone, connecting it automatically to a doctor's office through a custom app UC developed. The lab the size of a credit card can diagnose infectious diseases such as coronavirus, malaria, HIV or Lyme disease or countless other health conditions like depression and anxiety. (Source: World Pharma News)
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Wednesday 5 February 2020
AbstractInterdisciplinary approaches are merited when attempting to understand the complex and idiosyncratic processes driving the spillover of pathogens from wildlife and vector species to human populations. Public health data are often available for zoonotic pathogens but can lead to erroneous conclusions if the data have been spatially or temporally aggregated. As an illustration, we use human Lyme disease incidence data as a case study to examine correlations between mammalian biodiversity, fried chicken restaurants and obesity rates on human disease incidence. We demonstrate that Lyme disease incidence is negatively correlated with mammalian biodiversity, the abundance of fried chicken restaurants and obesity rates. We argue, however, that these correlations are spurious, representing...
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Emma L. Gillingham, Kayleigh M. Hansford, Scott Meadows, Julia Henney, Filip Wieckowski, Luis M. Hernández-Triana, Ivan Muscat, Joseph Muscat, Clara Beckert, Nadya I. Nikolova, Ben Cull, Jolyon M. MedlockAbstractThe Channel Islands are British Crown dependencies located in the English Channel to the west of the Normandy coast in northern France. Whilst there have been studies investigating tick occurrence and distribution in different habitats on the mainland of the UK and in France, the Channel Islands have been relatively understudied. As such, little is known about whether the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus, is present, and whether there is a potential risk of Lyme borreliosis on the Channel I...
Tuesday 4 February 2020
Publication date: Available online 3 February 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Mariska Kerstholt, Mihai G. Netea, Leo A.B. JoostenAbstractChanges in cellular metabolism have proven to be important factors in driving cell behavior. It has been shown that cellular metabolism of immune cells changes when exposed to or infected by several pathogens: while this is often an adaptation of the host cells to the infection, sometimes it represents a mechanism through which the pathogens evade immune activation. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is a pathogen that highly depends on the host to survive, as the bacterium lacks many central metabolic pathways to generate its own nutrients. It is therefore quite likely that the bacterium interact...
Sunday 2 February 2020
AbstractLyme disease (LD) is endemic in many regions of the Northeastern United States. Given the elusive nature of the disease, a systematic approach to identify efficient interventions would be useful for policymakers in addressing LD. We used Markov modeling to investigate the efficiency of interventions. These interventions range from awareness-based to behavioral-based strategies. Targeting animal reservoirs of LD using fungal spray or bait boxes did not prove to be an effective intervention. Results of awareness-based interventions, including distribution of signage, fliers, and presentations, implementable in different geographical scales, suggest that policymakers should focus on these interventions, as they are both cost-effective and have the highest impact on lowering LD risk. P...
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Sunday 2 February 2020
We report here the validation of a duplex real-time PCR assay using whole blood specimens on the Luminex ARIES® instrument, combining DNA extraction, amplification and detection into a one-step process. This method allows for rapid and sensitive detection of acute infections with Ehrlichia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum using whole blood specimens. We included A. phagocytophilum to monitor emergence of this pathogen in Kentucky, since surrounding states have reported many more cases than Kentucky. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Friday 31 January 2020
ConclusionData show that in addition to the clinical presentation of patients with symptoms suggesting central or peripheral nervous system manifestation, serum IgG- and IgM-titers help to identify LNB-patients. The results should guide physicians counseling patients with suspected LNB about further diagnostic steps and treatment. (Source: Journal of Neurology)
Friday 31 January 2020
Authors: Lefeuve F, Baseggio L PMID: 32108574 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Annales de Biologie Clinique)
Thursday 30 January 2020
Authors: Barbarin AM, Seagle SW, Creede S PMID: 31999682 [PubMed - in process] (Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl...)
Thursday 30 January 2020
The recent discovery of Lyme-infected ticks at the location of an outdoor wilderness program in North Carolina highlights the importance of vectorborne disease prevention. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Lyme disease (LD), which is caused by genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern hemisphere. Spirochetes are transmitted by Ixodes ticks and maintained in diverse vertebrate animal hosts. Following tick bite, spirochetes initially establish a localized infection in the skin. However, they may also disseminate hematogenously to several distal sites, including heart, joints, or the CNS. Because they need to survive in diverse microenvironments, from tick vector to mammalian hosts, spirochetes have developed multiple strategies to combat the numerous host defense mechanisms. One of these strategies includes the production of a number of complement-regulator acquiring surface proteins (CRASPs) which encompass CspA, CspZ, ...
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Wednesday 29 January 2020
ConclusionA discriminant analysis was shown to be useful to distinguish the independently most important cytokines/chemokines (CXCL1, GM-CSF, IL-7 and IL-10) in CSF, in order to discriminate LNBtot patients from Non-LNB patients. An IL-10/CXCL1 ratio was shown to have a promising diagnostic profile with a better performance than the chemokine CXCL13 in CSF. However, further evaluation is required to address future possible usefulness of these cytokines and chemokines in laboratory diagnostics in LNB, including control groups with neuro-inflammation. No significant associations were found between CSF immune mediator levels and clinical presentation or recovery in pediatric LNB patients. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Tuesday 28 January 2020
Authors: Song S, Wood TK Abstract Stress is ubiquitous for bacteria and can convert a subpopulation of cells into a dormant state known as persistence, in which cells are tolerant to antimicrobials. These cells revive rapidly when the stress is removed and are likely the cause of many recurring infections such as those associated with tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, and Lyme disease. However, how persister cells are formed is not understood well. Here we propose the ppGpp ribosome dimerization persister (PRDP) model in which the alarmone guanosine pentaphosphate/tetraphosphate (henceforth ppGpp) generates persister cells directly by inactivating ribosomes via the ribosome modulation factor (RMF), the hibernation promoting factor (Hpf), and the ribosome-associated inhibitor (RaiA). W...
Saturday 25 January 2020
This study investigated Borrelia prevalence and species distribution in ticks removed from humans and sent as diagnostic material to the Institute for Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, in 2013-2017. A probe-based real-time PCR was carried out and Borrelia-positive samples were subjected to species determination by reverse line blot (RLB), including a B. miyamotoi-specific probe. The overall Borrelia-infection rate as determined by real-time PCR was 20.02 % (510/2547, 95 % CI: 18.48–21.63 %), with annual prevalences ranging from 17.17 % (90/524, 95 % CI: 14.04–20.68 %) in 2014 to 24.12 % (96/398, 95 % CI: 19.99–28.63 %) in 2015. In total, 271/475 (57.1 %) positive samples available for RLB were successfully differentiated. Borrelia afzelii was detected in 30.53...
Saturday 25 January 2020
Authors: Pokutnaya D, Molaei G, Weinberger DM, Vossbrinck CR, Diaz AJ Abstract Ixodes scapularis is currently known to transmit 7 pathogens responsible for Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, tick-borne relapsing fever, ehrlichiosis, and Powassan encephalitis. Ixodes scapularis can also be colonized by endosymbiotic bacteria including those in the genus of Rickettsia. We screened 459 I. scapularis ticks submitted to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Tick Testing Laboratory with the objectives to (1) examine differences in infection prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia miyamotoi, (2) evaluate whether prevalence of co-infections occur at the same frequency that would be expected based on single infection, and (...
Monday 20 January 2020
The prevalence of tickborne diseases worldwide is increasing virtually unchecked due to the lack of effective control strategies. The transmission dynamics of tickborne pathogens are influenced by the tick microbiome, tick co-infection with other pathogens, and environmental features. Understanding this complex system could lead to new strategies for pathogen control, but will require large-scale, high-resolution data. Here, we introduce Project Acari, a citizen science-based project to assay, at single-tick resolution, species, pathogen infection status, microbiome profile, and environmental conditions of tens of thousands of ticks collected from numerous sites across the United States. In the first phase of the project, we collected more than 2,400 ticks wild-caught by citizen scientists...
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Monday 20 January 2020
Publication date: Available online 20 January 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Tom G. Schwan, Sandra J. Raffel, James M. BattistiAbstractThe relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii and the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto each produces an abundant, orthologous, outer membrane protein, Vtp and OspC, respectively, when transmitted by tick bite. Gene inactivation studies have shown that both proteins are essential for spirochete infectivity when transmitted by their respective tick vectors. Therefore, we transformed a vtp-minus mutant of B. hermsii with ospC from B. burgdorferi and examined the behavior of this transgenic spirochete in its soft tick vector Ornithodoros hermsi. IFA staining indicated up to 97.8% of the transgenic B. hermsii upre...
Friday 17 January 2020
(Source: Journal of Neurology)
Friday 17 January 2020
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Dana Zubriková, Maria Wittmann, Václav Hönig, Pavel Švec, Bronislava Víchová, Sandra Essbauer, Gerhard Dobler, Libor Grubhoffer, Kurt PfisterAbstractLyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are the most common tick-borne diseases in Germany. We collected Ixodes ricinus ticks from 16 high-risk and four low-risk sites distributed in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate based on the number of human TBE cases recorded at the Robert Koch Institute from 2001 to 2009. A total of 8805 questing ticks (8203 nymphs, 602 adults) were collected in 2010 and examined in pools for the presence of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) using real-time RT–PCR. Overall TBEV prevalence evaluated as ...
Thursday 16 January 2020
This study highlights the ability of OspC chimeritopes to serve as vaccinogens that trigger potentially broadly protective Ab responses. In addition to the current use of an OspC chimeritope in a canine LD vaccine, chimeritopes can serve as key components of human LD subunit vaccines. PMID: 31959423 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Vaccine)
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Thursday 16 January 2020
Authors: Strnad M, Grubhoffer L, Rego ROM Abstract Lyme borreliosis is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks and may severely affect many organs and tissues. Nearly four decades have elapsed since the discovery of the disease agent called Borrelia burgdorferi. Although there is a plethora of knowledge on the infectious agent and thousands of scientific publications, an effective way on how to combat and prevent Lyme borreliosis has not been found yet. There is no vaccine for humans available, and only one active vaccine program in clinical development is currently running. A spirited search for possible disease interventions is of high public interest as surveillance data indicates that the number of cases of Lyme borreliosis is steadily increasing in...
Thursday 16 January 2020
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine reported a record number of Lyme disease cases last year, and the number could rise as data continues to trickle in, officials said Thursday. There were at least 2,079 cases in 2019, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported. It’s too early to say why the numbers grew last year. But the numbers underscore the importance of taking precautions to avoid tick bites, said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC. Winter is a time of low ticket activity. But ticks can be active when the temperature climbs above 40, as it did last weekend in Maine. The state also experienced increases in two other tickborne diseases, with 685 cases of anaplasmosis and 138 cases of babesiosis. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by infected deer ticks....
Wednesday 15 January 2020
This study also revealed the presence of the close ecological and evolutionary relationships between two important vector ticks, Hyalomma marginatum and Hy. aegyptium and determined genetic variations (distinct phylogenetic divergences inside the main clades) in some pathogenic SFG rickettsiae that are found in these ticks. Additionally, the presence of two Babesia species described very recently in hares with unknown vectors, namely Babesia sp. tavsan1 and Babesia sp. tavsan2, were detected for the first time in ticks. Finally, two unnamed Hepatozoon spp. were detected in Haemaphysalis ticks and their phylogenetic positions were demonstrated. Consequently, this study provides important data on the diversity of tick-borne microorganisms in host-seeking ticks and on potentially novel microo...
Wednesday 15 January 2020
The pensioner, from Castelo Branco, Portugal, went to hospital with excruciating pains in his chest and extremely low blood pressure. Justin Bieber announced he had the illness last week. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 15 January 2020
A engineer forced to quit work hopes pop star Justin Bieber will raise awareness of the condition. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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Sunday 12 January 2020
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Sunday 12 January 2020
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Saturday 11 January 2020
For now, the only prevention lies in avoiding tick contact but one company, Valneva, is working fervently to develop what they believe will be the world ’s first vaccine against Lyme’s disease. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Friday 10 January 2020
Publication date: Available online 9 January 2020Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Vesta Matulaityte, Algimantas Paulauskas, Maksim Bratchikov, Jana RadzijevskajaAbstractIxodes lividus Koch, 1844 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) ticks are parasites specific to the sand martin (Riparia riparia). The distribution range of I. lividus covers Europe and Asia and they are found wherever sand martins nest. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia garinii and Rickettsia vini have recently been detected in I. lividus ticks in Central Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of Rickettsia spp. (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) and Borrelia spp. (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) in I. lividus ticks in Lithuania. A total of 2622 non-engorged I. lividus from two different coloni...
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Ixodes ticks are the main vectors for a number of zoonotic diseases, including Lyme disease. Ticks secrete saliva directly into a mammalian host while feeding on the host's blood. This action serves to modulate host immunity and coagulation, thus allowing ticks to attach and feed upon their host. One of the most extensively studied components of tick saliva is Salp15. Research has shown that this protein binds specifically to CD4 molecules on the surface of T lymphocytes, interferes with TCR-mediated signaling transduction, inhibits CD4+ T cell activation and proliferation, and impedes the secretion of interleukin 2 (IL-2). Salp15 also binds specifically to dendritic cell dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN) to up-regulate the expression...
Thursday 9 January 2020
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tick-transmitted disease in the Northern Hemisphere. The disease is caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and other related Borrelia species. One of the many fascinating features of this unique pathogen is an elaborate system for antigenic variation, whereby the sequence of the surface-bound lipoprotein VlsE is continually modified through segmental gene conversion events. This perpetual changing of the guard allows the pathogen to remain one step ahead of the acquired immune response, enabling persistent infection. Accordingly, the vls locus is the most evolutionarily diverse genetic element in Lyme disease–causing borreliae. Small stretches of information are transferred from a series of silent cassettes...
Thursday 9 January 2020
Here is why Lyme Disease is tough to diagnose, tough to understand, and tough to have. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Thursday 9 January 2020
Singer Justin Bieber says he has Lyme disease, revealing his condition Wednesday in an Instagram post addressing comments people have made about his appearance in recent months. (Source: WebMD Health)
Thursday 9 January 2020
More details about his affliction will be unveiled in an upcoming documentary series, Bieber said. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Thursday 9 January 2020
(NEW YORK) — Justin Bieber says that he has been battling Lyme disease. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the pop star wrote that “it’s been a rough couple years but (I’m) getting the right treatment that will help treat this so far incurable disease and I will be back and better than ever.” Lyme disease is transmitted by Ixodes ticks, also known as deer ticks. Lyme can cause flu-like conditions, neurological problems, joint paint and other symptoms. “While a lot of people kept saying justin Bieber looks like (expletive), on meth etc. they failed to realize I’ve been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that but had a serious case of chronic mono which affected my, skin, brain function, energy, and overall health,” Bieber wrote. Th...
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Justin Bieber Reveals He Has Lyme Disease Singer Justin Bieber says he has Lyme disease. He revealed his condition Wednesday in an Instagram... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Thursday 9 January 2020
Journal of Proteome ResearchDOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00470 (Source: Journal of Proteome Research)
Thursday 9 January 2020
Lyme disease is the most common illness spread by ticks in North America and Europe. View Lyme disease symptoms, treatments and prevention tips. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Several well-controlled clinical trials have shown that prolonged antibiotic therapy has no benefit in relieving posttreatment Lyme disease symptoms. However, some insist that such symptoms are due to a persistent Borrelia burgdorferi infection requiring prolonged antibiotic therapy to resolve. This unproven view is bolstered by the results of in vitro experiments where small numbers of viable B. burgdorferi can be detected after treatment with antibiotics. The results described in the present work suggest that the presence of persisters can best be explained by classic biochemical kinetics and that there are alternative explanations for this phenomenon that appears to have no clinical significance. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
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Wednesday 8 January 2020
Five clinical trials show that prolonged antibiotic therapy has no clear and lasting benefit in relieving post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms, a condition often called “chronic Lyme disease”1-4; no evidence of active infection was found in any of these studies by culture or molecular methods. Despite such findings, as well as the fact that evidence of harm was unambiguous,2,3 some still insist that these symptoms are due to a persistent Borrelia burgdorferi in fection that can be eliminated only by several months of additional treatment with different kinds of antibiotics, given either singly or in combination. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Monday 6 January 2020
AbstractPurpose of ReviewSince recognition in 1975, Lyme disease has become the most common vector-borne illness in North America and Europe. The clinical features are well-characterized and treatment is usually curative, but misperceptions about morbidity persist. The purpose of this review is to examine advances in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, as well as ongoing management challenges.Recent FindingsIt is useful to recognize that Lyme disease occurs in stages, with early- and late-stage disease. Clinical expression is in part determined by Borrelial variability. For example, some strains ofBorrelia burgdorferi, the causative organism in North America, are particularly arthritogenic. Most patients with early Lyme disease can be cured with a single course of oral antibiotic ...
Saturday 4 January 2020
Authors: Sarah E. St. Pierre Odette N. Gould Vett Lloyd As the prevalence of Lyme disease increases across Canada, it is imperative that the educational needs of at-risk groups be identified. The current study compared the level of knowledge and the knowledge needs about Lyme disease among individuals that spend time outdoors for work and for recreational purposes. Between December 2018 and February 2019, a survey was distributed to outdoor organizations across New Brunswick, Canada. Within the current sample of 137 individuals, 36% spent time outdoors for their occupation and 64% for recreational activities. Results showed no significant difference between these groups with regard to their level of knowledge, perceived efficacy and performance of various methods of prevention, a...
Wednesday 1 January 2020
Publication date: Available online 31 December 2019Source: Methods in MicrobiologyAuthor(s): Charles S. PaviaAbstractLyme disease and the relapsing fever borrelioses are caused by spirochetal bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia. They have a partially restricted worldwide distribution depending upon their species. They are transmitted to people following exposure to the following arthropod vectors: ticks (for Lyme disease and endemic relapsing fever) and lice (for epidemic relapsing fever). Soon after a cutaneous infection becomes established, these spirochetes disseminate via the haematogenous route and are capable of causing multi-system disturbances that can vary in their degree of morbidity. Unlike most bacteria, the Borrelia are somewhat difficult to culture, which often makes iso...
Monday 30 December 2019
In conclusion, Lu59 induced higher complement activation than ACA1 and individuals with previous SB showed increased generation of C3a compared with patients with previous LNB. In our study population, this mechanism could lead to less elimination of spirochetes in LNB patients and thereby be a factor contributing to the clinical outcome. (Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
Thursday 26 December 2019
Theodore “Ted” Van Itallie (shown above), an intellectual giant and pioneer in the field of nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and cognitive function research, professor emeritus, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, former editor-in chief of the journals Metabolism and the American Journ al of Nutrition, and a former director of medicine at St. Luke's Hospital Center in New York City (1957–75), died at his home in Old Lyme, CT on September 14th 2019 at the age of 99 years. A special memorial service was held for him at Saint Ann's Episcopal Church in Old Lyme on November 8th 201 9, the day that would have been his 100th birthday. (Source: Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental)
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Tuesday 24 December 2019
This study investigated Borrelia prevalence and species distribution in ticks removed from humans and sent as diagnostic material to the Institute for Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, in 2013-2017. A probe-based real-time PCRwas carried out and Borrelia-positive samples were subjected to species determination by reverse line blot (RLB), including a B. miyamotoi-specific probe. The overall Borrelia-infection rate as determined by real-time PCR was 20.02% (510/2547, 95% CI: 18.48-21.63%), with annual prevalences ranging from 17.17% (90/524, 95% CI: 14.04-20.68%) in 2014 to 24.12% (96/398, 95% CI: 19.99-28.63%) in 2015. In total, 271/475 (57.1%) positive samples available for RLB were successfully differentiated. Borrelia afzelii was detected in 30.53% of cases (145/4...
Saturday 21 December 2019
This study indicates that woodchip borders may be an effective strategy to suppress questing tick density along trail margins where recreational trail users are more active, thereby reducing the likelihood of tick encounters. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Friday 20 December 2019
Conclusions: In children, NB more frequently presented as meningitis, and in adults in the form of Bannwarth’s syndrome. CSF pleocytosis in children with NB was higher than in adults, while the protein concentration in children was lower. Outcomes in children and adults were favorable and did not differ after standard NB treatment. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Thursday 19 December 2019
Publication date: Available online 19 December 2019Source: IDCasesAuthor(s): Karen Beltran, Rita Wadeea, Karen L. HerbstABSTRACTDercum Disease (DD) is a rare inflammatory disease of painful subcutaneous fat masses with known alterations in lymphatic vessels. DD masses vary from pearl to walnut-size or larger and occur anywhere in body fat. Signs and symptoms of DD are similar to fibromyalgia. While the etiology of DD is unknown, metabolic, autoimmune, or autosomal genetic transmission has been proposed. This series presents 7 cases where DD followed an infection either histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis or Lyme disease. Known changes in fat by infectious agents are reviewed. Early diagnosis and treatment of infections may prevent further damage to fat. (Source: IDCases)
Thursday 19 December 2019
Combatting Lyme disease myths and the "chronic Lyme industry". CMAJ. 2019 Dec 16;191(50):E1389 Authors: PMID: 31844026 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Canadian Medical Association Journal)
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Wednesday 18 December 2019
CONCLUSIONS: Of the ten ticks infected with <i>B. burgdorferi</i> s. l., <i>B. afzelii</i> was found in seven, undefinied genospecies in two, and mixed infection with <i>B. afzelii</i> and <i>B. burgdorferi</i> s. s. in one. The study demonstrated the potential risk of exposure of humans and animals to infections of <i>B. burgdorferi</i> s. l., <i>A. phagocytophilum</i> and <i>B. microti</i> in the examined area of Poland. PMID: 31885226 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Wednesday 18 December 2019
Conclusion: There is a high seroprevalence of infection with B. burgdorferi in the forest areas of Nagarahole and Bandipur ranges in south India. (Source: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology)
Wednesday 18 December 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—In Lyme disease-endemic areas, a C6 peptide enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test may help guide initial management of children with acute arthritis, an observational study suggests.1 “Children with Lyme disease frequently present to the emergency department with an inflamed joint,” Lise Nigrovic, MD, MPH, of Boston Children’s Hospital tells Reuters Health by email.... [Read More] (Source: The Rheumatologist)
Wednesday 18 December 2019
In Lyme disease-endemic areas, a C6 peptide enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test may help guide initial management of children with acute arthritis, an observational study suggests.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines)
Wednesday 18 December 2019
ACS NanoDOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08151 (Source: ACS Nano)
Tuesday 17 December 2019
We present an adult case of chronic Lyme disease, who developed pseudotumor cerebri and who needed supplementary surgical treatment. We compare it to the existing published literature, reviewed by a systematic approach. AbstractIt is important to recognize the rare manifestations of chronic Lyme disease to prevent permanent disabilities. We present an adult case of chronic Lyme disease, who developed pseudotumor cerebri and who needed supplementary surgical treatment. We compare it to the existing published literature, reviewed by a systematic approach. (Source: Clinical Case Reports)
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Tuesday 17 December 2019
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Monday 16 December 2019
Mother ’s fundraising campaign in Lyme Regis has been backed by likes of David AttenboroughEvie Swire was nine years old when she first heard the story of a woman who had lived near her home in Dorset and, in her own way, changed the world.Mary Anning was born into a humble family in Lyme Regis in 1799 and grew up hunting for fossils in the area ’s cliffs to supplement their meagre income. When she was 12, she and her brother discovered one of the first ichthyosaurus skeletons, and she would go on to make many other pioneering finds and become immensely knowledgeable in the emerging field of palaeontology.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Monday 16 December 2019
Publication date: Available online 14 December 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Eisen LarsAbstractUse of emerging technology allowing for identification of genetic material from pathogens and endosymbionts in ticks collected from humans, domestic animals, wildlife, or the environment has resulted in an avalanche of new data on tick-microorganism associations. This rapidly growing stream of new information is a tremendous resource but also presents challenges, including how detection of pathogen genetic material in ticks should best be interpreted. There is a tendency in the more recent published literature to incorrectly use the term “vector” based on detection of pathogen genetic material from tick species not experimentally confirmed to serve as vectors of the path...
Thursday 12 December 2019
SUMMARY: Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in Canada and the United States, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which affects multiple organ systems. Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and neuroimaging findings are reviewed. (Source: American Journal of Neuroradiology)
Wednesday 11 December 2019
Conclusions: A significant increase (P = .02) in Lyme arthritis cases was observed at Oishei Children's Hospital of Buffalo. Lyme arthritis may clinically present similarly to other forms of arthritis, such as oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, so health care providers should be aware of distinguishing clinical features, which include rapid onset of swelling and patient age. Because the geographic area of endemic Lyme disease is expanding, all health care providers need to be aware of Lyme arthritis as a possible diagnosis. PMID: 31819695 [PubMed] (Source: Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders)
Tuesday 10 December 2019
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
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Tuesday 10 December 2019
Insurance claim lines related to Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of black-legged ticks, increased by 117 percent across the country between 2007 and 2018, according to new research. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Tuesday 10 December 2019
NEW YORK (CBS) – The United States has seen a big rise in the number of Lyme disease cases. A new study finds that the number of Americans diagnosed with the illness more than doubled over the past decade. Researchers at FAIR looked at private health insurance claims from 2007 to 2018. They found the biggest increase was in urban areas where claims for Lyme disease increased by more than 120%. Read The Report (PDF) “Lyme disease is the nation’s predominant tick-borne disease, and it is growing,” FAIR said in its report. Massachusetts was among the Top 10 states with the highest percentages of insurance claims for Lyme. The infection is spread through tick bites and can affect joints, the nervous system and heart if it goes untreated. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Spo...
Tuesday 10 December 2019
(FAIR Health) From 2007 to 2018, claim lines with diagnoses of Lyme disease increased nationally 117%. The new FAIR Health Study Uncovers Geographic, Age and Gender Variation, among Other Notable Statistics. Comparing Lyme disease to other tick-borne diseases, the study draws on data from FAIR Health's comprehensive repository of over 29 billion private healthcare claim records -- the largest in the country. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Sunday 8 December 2019
In conclusion, we show in this study that DCs respond to and mount an immune response against B. miyamotoi that is similar to the response to B. burgdorferi and is able to induce T cell proliferation. PMID: 31818980 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Immunology)
Sunday 8 December 2019
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Amber M. Frye, Thomas M. Hart, Danielle M. Tufts, Sanjay Ram, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, Peter Kraiczy, Anna M. Blom, Yi-Pin LinAbstractComplement is a key first line innate host defense system in the blood of vertebrates. Upon activation, this powerful defense mechanism can elicit inflammatory responses, lyse non-self-cells, or mark them for opsonophagocytic removal. Blood-feeding arthropods thus require the ability to block host complement activation in the bloodmeal to prevent undesired cell or tissue damage during feeding. The soft tick Ornithodoros moubata produces a complement inhibitory protein, OmCI. This protein binds to a mammalian complement protein C5 and blocks further activation of co...
Sunday 8 December 2019
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Hein Sprong, Sander Moonen, Sipke E. van Wieren, Tim R. HofmeesterAbstractCattle grazing has been suggested to reduce the risk for Lyme borreliosis by decreasing the density of questing Ixodes ricinus infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. We tested the hypotheses that cattle grazing used in woodland management decreases the density of questing I. ricinus, and that it decreases the nympal infection prevalence of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. We further expected the nympal infection prevalence of tick-borne pathogens that utilize cattle as amplifying hosts, namely Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia sensu stricto, to increase. To test these hypotheses, we compared the densities of quest...
Friday 6 December 2019
Authors: Perea AE, Hinckley AF, Mead PS PMID: 31800351 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Public Health Reports)
Thursday 5 December 2019
(CNN/CBS) — The climate crisis is making us more vulnerable to ticks in an unprecedented and growing threat to public health, according to a new report. Bacterial and protozoan tick-borne diseases doubled in the United States between 2004 and 2016, the report notes, and in 2017, more than 90% of the 60,000 vector-borne diseases in the United States were linked to these particular bloodsucking bugs. The warmer temperatures brought by the climate crisis, in addition to ecological changes and reforestation, have extended the bugs’ range into regions that had not seen certain types of ticks for many decades, if ever. And the report published in the New England Journal of Medicine Tuesday warns that we should be “bracing for the worst.” The lone star tick, a tick disting...
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Tuesday 3 December 2019
Scientists at Columbia University, New York, are developing test that uses microchips to detect antibodies against Lyme disease. The condition, spread by ticks, can be fatal to humans. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 2 December 2019
Authors: Margos G, Fedorova N, Becker NS, Kleinjan JE, Marosevic D, Krebs S, Hui L, Fingerle V, Lane RS Abstract Borrelia species are vector-borne parasitic bacteria with unusual, highly fragmented genomes that include a linear chromosome and linear as well as circular plasmids that differ numerically between and within various species. Strain CA690T, which was cultivated from a questing Ixodes spinipalpis nymph in the San Francisco Bay area, CA, was determined to be genetically distinct from all other described species belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The genome, including plasmids, was assembled using a hybrid assembly of short Illumina reads and long reads obtained via Oxford Nanopore Technology. We found that strain CA690T has a main linear chromosome c...
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Saturday 30 November 2019
CONCLUSION: Clinicians should have a high index of suspicion for IIH and brain tumours in children presenting with papilledema. Patients with craniosynostosis should have routine eye examinations to monitor for asymptomatic papilledema. Understanding the relative incidence of etiologies for papilledema highlights the urgency of appropriate work-up and the need to consider low-frequency etiologies. PMID: 31836094 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology)
Saturday 30 November 2019
ConclusionThis study of the clinical spectrum of LD in Canadian children underlines the need for preventive measures to protect children in Canada from emerging LD, and the need for health care provider awareness. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Thursday 28 November 2019
I’m always so proud of what our union stands for and what we can achieve when we stand together. But sometimes there are days when that’s particularly true – and earlier this week I had one of those days. It started early on a picket line at Whiston Hospital. The strikers – employed by Compass – have a simple demand, to get the same pay and conditions as those they work alongside in our NHS. Their energy, their passion and their unwillingness to give in are truly inspiring. These are the people who keep our NHS – our nation’s greatest achievement – running each day. They clean, they cook and they make sure patients are where they’re meant to be. They embody the incredible values of the NHS and our union, and it’s time that Compass (a company whic...
Thursday 28 November 2019
In this study, we determined the crystal structures of the key outer surface protein BBE31 from B. burgdorferi and its orthologous protein BSE31 (BSPA14S_RS05060 gene product) from B. spielmanii. BBE31 is known to be important for the transfer of B. burgdorferi from the gut to the hemolymph in the tick after a tick bite. While BBE31 exerts its function by interacting with the Ixodes scapularis tick gut protein TRE31, structural and mass spectrometry data revealed that BBE31 has a glutathione (GSH) covalently attached to Cys142 suggesting that the protein may have acquired some additional functions in contrast to its orthologous protein BSE31, which lacks any interactions with GSH. In the current study, in addition to analyzing the potential reasons for GSH binding, the three-dimensional st...
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Fundamental misunderstandings exist among both patients and practitioners about the nature of tick-borne infections. This review aims to address these issues from the neurologist's perspective.Seminars in Neurology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Monday 25 November 2019
In conclusion, here we describe the molecular mechanism utilized by B. mayonii to resists complement-mediated killing by capturing human immune regulators. (Source: Frontiers in Immunology)
Monday 25 November 2019
We report a case of suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) where the patient's sole symptom was chronic, intermittent episodes of unilateral ear pain. This case was unusual because this patient did not show any other neurological or extraneurological symptoms of Lyme disease. LNB is a manifestation of infection by Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes that can manifest in a number of different clinical presentations depending on the nervous system dissemination of the bacteria. Most commonly, these neurological findings present as peripheral nerve radiculopathies, but rarer involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) can occur if a patient goes untreated. Most often, CNS involvement presents as meningitis with increased lymphocytes but can, in rarer cases, involve the spinal cord ...
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Monday 25 November 2019
Chronic Lyme disease occurs when a person who has already received treatment for Lyme disease continues to have symptoms in the long term. Learn more about this condition here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Monday 25 November 2019
Fewer than 40% of those bitten by a tick transmitting Lyme disease will have a bullseye rash, and ticks are incredibly small (about the size of a sesame seed), so are easily missed. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Friday 22 November 2019
We present a case of a man with genital condyloma acuminatum with a positive T. pallidum IHC stain but negative T. pallidum serologies and no syphilitic symptoms. It has been shown that the T. pallidum antibody IHC can cross-react, staining other spirochetes, including Borrelia burgdorferi and the Brachyspira family of intestinal spirochetes. Because of the proximity of our patient's lesions to the anus, and the persistently negative T. pallidum serologies, we believe nontreponemal spirochetes colonized the condyloma, giving a false-positive T. pallidum IHC. This cross-reactivity is a potential diagnostic pitfall and is important for the dermatopathologist to recognize, thereby avoiding false diagnosis of syphilis. (Source: The American Journal of Dermatopathology)
Thursday 21 November 2019
Single multiplexed assays could replace the standard 2-tiered (STT) algorithm recommended for the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease if they perform with a specificity and a sensitivity superior or equal to those of the STT algorithm. We used human serum rigorously characterized to be sera from patients with acute- and convalescent-phase early Lyme disease, Lyme arthritis, and posttreatment Lyme disease syndrome, as well as the necessary controls (n = 241 samples), to select the best of 12 Borrelia burgdorferi proteins to improve our microfluidic assay (mChip-Ld). We then evaluated its serodiagnostic performance in comparison to that of a first-tier enzyme immunoassay and the STT algorithm. We observed that more antigens became positive as Lyme disease progressed from early to late stage...
Thursday 21 November 2019
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Wednesday 20 November 2019
The Quarterly Review of Biology,Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 448-449, December 2019. (Source: QRB Latest Issue)
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Conclusions: Because serum serology can be negative at presentation, lumbar puncture is a valuable tool when diagnosing LB among children with facial palsy. Pleocytosis and increased protein and CXCL13 values in the CSF suggest LB as the cause of facial palsy. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
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Monday 18 November 2019
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Monday 18 November 2019
A novel PET imaging technique has uncovered high levels of ischemia in patients...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: PET/MRI sheds light on cerebral vascular risk factors Flortaucipir-PET shows tau accumulation after one TBI PET, MRI show physical activity aids brain health Carbon-11 PET detects brain inflammation after Lyme disease SNMMI: Cerebrovascular risk tied to Alzheimer's disease (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Friday 15 November 2019
CONCLUSION: In patients consulting for presumed LB, patients diagnosed with LB had fewer and shorter functional symptoms than patients without LB. PMID: 31722861 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses)
Thursday 14 November 2019
Authors: Lourdes Lledó Consuelo Giménez-Pardo María Isabel Gegúndez Exposure to Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), hantaviruses, Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi among forestry workers from a province in central Spain (Guadalajara) was examined by serological screening. This is the first such study in this rural area, where people often live and work in proximity to domestic and wild animals. Immunofluorescent analyses of the serum of 100 forestry workers detected IgG antibodies to LCMV in 2% (CL 95% 0.55%–7.0%) of this population, to hantaviruses in 4% (CL 95% 1.6%–8.3%) for the serum amyloid A (SAA) serotype, and 2% (CL 95% 0.55%–7.0%) for the Seoul virus (SEO) serotype (samples also positive for SAA), to Rickettsia ...
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Abstract16 ‐year‐old boy with severe obesity presented to the pediatric rheumatology clinic with a 1.5‐year history of right knee swelling. Laboratory findings were unremarkable other than mildly elevated inflammatory markers. Lyme screen was negative. A previous knee MRI reported a large joint effusion with synovitis and few punctate foci of low signal intensity throughout the synovium, concerning for pigmented villondodular synovitis. (Source: Arthritis and Rheumatology)
Tuesday 12 November 2019
This study is registered with the Netherlands Trial Registry, number NTR5263.FindingsWe screened patients for enrolment between Dec 3, 2015, and May 31, 2018. Patients completed baseline visits and started treatment between Dec 14, 2015, and July 2, 2018, and the last study visit of the last patient was Oct 4, 2018. Of 149 patients assessed for eligibility, 57 (38%) patients were excluded (predominantly because they did not meet one or several inclusion criteria, most often because of an absence of synovial inflammation or of flare-ups after NSAID washout) and 92 (62%) patients were eligible for inclusion. We randomly assigned 46 (50%) patients to receive prednisolone and 46 (50%) patients to receive placebo, all of whom were included in the modified intention-to-treat analysis of the prim...
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Publication date: Available online 10 November 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Yamato Sajiki, Satoru Konnai, Akie Ochi, Tomohiro Okagawa, Naftaly Githaka, Masayoshi Isezaki, Shinji Yamada, Takuya Ito, Shuji Ando, Hiroki Kawabata, Carlos Logullo, Itabajara da Silva Vaz, Naoya Maekawa, Shiro Murata, Kazuhiko OhashiAbstractTick saliva contains immunosuppressants which are important to obtain a blood meal and enhance the infectivity of tick-borne pathogens. In Japan, Ixodes persulcatus is a major vector for Lyme borreliosis pathogens, such as Borrelia garinii, as well as for those causing relapsing fever, such as B. miyamotoi. To date, little information is available on bioactive salivary molecules, produced by this tick. Thus, in this study, we identified two proteins, I. ...
Monday 11 November 2019
Lyme disease is caused by a tick-borne bacterium Borrelia sp. This zoonotic infection is common in the Northern Hemisphere, e.g., Europe. Clinical presentation may involve multisystem symptoms and depends on the stage of the disease. The involvement of nervous system in Lyme disease is commonly referred to as neuroborreliosis. Neuroborreliosis may involve meningitis, mononeuritis multiplex, or cranial neuritis including the inflammation of vestibulocochlear nerve. In the late or chronic stage of Lyme disease, vestibular involvement may be the sole presentation, although such cases are rare. Our study was designed to present our own case and review the available literature reporting cases of neuroborreliosis with vertigo/dizziness and severe balance instability as a main disease symptom. Th...
Monday 11 November 2019
Authors: Johnstone-Robertson SP, Diuk-Wasser MA, Davis SA Abstract Tick-borne pathogens pose a considerable disease burden in Europe and North America, where increasing numbers of human cases and the emergence of new tick-borne pathogens has renewed interest in resolving the mechanisms underpinning their geographical distribution and abundance. For Borrelia burgdorferi and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus, transmission of infection from one generation of ticks to another occurs when older nymphal ticks infect younger larval ticks feeding on the same host, either indirectly via systemic infection of the vertebrate host or directly when feeding in close proximity. Here, expressions for the basic reproduction number, R0, and the related tick type-reproduction number, T, are derived...
Monday 11 November 2019
The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersDOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02978 (Source: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
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Sunday 10 November 2019
Authors: Federizon J, Frye A, Huang WC, Hart TM, He X, Beltran C, Marcinkiewicz AL, Mainprize IL, Wills MKB, Lin YP, Lovell JF Abstract Outer surface protein A (OspA) is a Borrelia lipoprotein and an established Lyme disease vaccine target. Admixing non-lipidated, recombinant B. burgdorferi OspA with liposomes containing cobalt porphyrin-phospholipid (CoPoP) resulted in rapid, particulate surface display of the conformationally intact antigen. Particleization was serum-stable and led to enhanced antigen uptake in murine macrophages in vitro. Mouse immunization using CoPoP liposomes that also contained a synthetic monophosphoryl lipid A (PHAD) elicited a Th1-biased OspA antibody response with higher IgG production compared to other vaccine adjuvants. Antibodies were reactive with in...
Thursday 7 November 2019
No abstract available (Source: Neurology Today)
Tuesday 5 November 2019
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the potential danger from the inadvertent introduction of novel disease pathogens and vectors. Awareness of co-infections and Dermacentor reticulatus-related pathogens needs to be increased. PMID: 31694625 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Biomed Res)
Friday 1 November 2019
To evaluate occurrence and extent of CSF CXCL13 elevations beyond Lyme neuroborreliosis, we investigated CXCL13 in an unselected patient cohort with neuroinflammatory disease. From March 2016 to March 2017, 180 in-patients with CSF pleocytosis were categorized into following groups: pyogenic CNS infections, aseptic meningoencephalitis, neuroimmunological diseases, and reactive pleocytosis. We provide evidence that CXCL13 elevation occurs at variable extent in the majority of neuroinflammatory diseases. (Source: Journal of Neuroimmunology)
Friday 1 November 2019
Rationale: Both Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and spotted fever group Rickettsiae (SFGR) are pathogens carried by ticks. There is a possibility of co-infection with these tick-borne diseases. Patient concerns: Male patient, 63 years-of-age, admitted to hospital with skin rash presenting for 1 week and fever with cough and expectoration for 3 days before admission. Diagnoses: We diagnosed that the patient was co-infected by B burgdorferi sl and SFGR using laboratory test results and the patient's clinical manifestations. Interventions: The patient started therapy with oral minocycline, then levofloxacin by intravenous injection for SFGR. Meanwhile, he was treated with penicillin G sodium, cefoperazone sulbactam sodium and ceftriaxone by intravenous injection for B burgdorferi s...
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Friday 1 November 2019
Journal of Proteome ResearchDOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00569 (Source: Journal of Proteome Research)
Thursday 31 October 2019
ConclusionB. burgdorferi is unusual in that it expresses three distinct MTNs (cytoplasmic, membrane bound, and secreted) that are effectively inactivated by nucleoside analogs.General significanceThe Borrelia MTNs appear to be promising targets for developing new antibiotics to treat Lyme disease. (Source: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) General Subjects)
Thursday 31 October 2019
LYME disease is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium named Borrelia, spread by ticks found in the woods. It can easily be caught and if a person experiences this one particular sign it could be a major warning that you may be at risk of having the disease. What is it? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 28 October 2019
First ever cases in Britain, says Public Health England Related items fromOnMedica Vaccine linked to earlier onset of seizures in Dravet syndrome Scans show severe brain damage in Zika-affected babies Lyme disease may be three times more common in UK than previously thought Single-dose malaria drug eliminates parasite from liver Common anti-parasitic could be new tool for malaria control (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Monday 28 October 2019
Authors: Sabrina H, Volker F, Gerhard DG, Gerit F, Durdica M, Ethan RR, Mercy O, Andreas S, Gabriele M Abstract Borrelia turcica, a member of the reptile-associated Borrelia clade, is vectored by Hyalomma aegyptium. The only suggested reservoir hosts of B. turcica are tortoises of the genus Testudo. Borrelia turcica has been described to occur in several Southeastern European countries including Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece but so far nothing is known about the relationship of these populations and whether or how they are structured. Using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on eight chromosomally located housekeeping loci (clpA, clpX, nifS, pepX, pyrG, recG, rplB and uvrA) we analyzed 43 B. turcica isolates from Serres, Greece (n = 15) collected in 2017 and Izmir, Turkey...
Monday 28 October 2019
As vectors for Lyme disease, black-legged ticks present a public health crisis in North America. Are current prevention recommendations appropriate? Where should prevention efforts be focused?American Journal of Epidemiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Saturday 26 October 2019
Two newly reported cases of fatal Lyme carditis serve as a reminder of the importance of prompt identification and treatment of this potentially life-threatening infection.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
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Monday 21 October 2019
Authors: Marx GE, Leikauskas J, Lindstrom K, Mann E, Reagan-Steiner S, Matkovic E, Read JS, Kelso P, Kwit NA, Hinckley AF, Levine MA, Brown C PMID: 31634915 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Annals of Internal Medicine)
Monday 21 October 2019
Waiting for test results before initiating therapy for patients suspected of having Lyme carditis may result in death, data from two recent cases show.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Saturday 19 October 2019
Publication date: 19 October 2019Source: New Scientist, Volume 244, Issue 3252Author(s): Clare Wilson (Source: New Scientist)
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Saturday 19 October 2019
Conclusions: In Slovenia, LNB in children is more often caused by B. garinii, followed by B. afzelii. The clinical picture of LNB in children caused by B. garinii is not more often suggestive of CNS involvement, but CNS inflammation is more pronounced in children infected with B. garinii, compared with children infected with B. afzelii. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Saturday 19 October 2019
The frequency of permanent staining of teeth of young children from doxycycline is thought to be lower than from older tetracyclines, but the precise risk is uncertain. Until more definitive data become available, doxycycline should not be used routinely to treat young children with erythema migrans, a manifestation of Lyme disease for which other antimicrobials are highly effective. (Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
Saturday 19 October 2019
This study documents a high prevalence in ticks of Rickettsia spp. thought to be endosymbionts, a low prevalence of relapsing fever group Borrelia in ticks, and a lack of detection of Lyme disease-group Borrelia in both ticks and mammals in an east Texas forested recreation area. Additionally, we observed low questing tick density in areas with a history of controlled burns. These results expand knowledge of tick-borne disease ecology in east Texas which can aid in directing future investigative, modeling, and management efforts. (Source: Ticks and Tick borne Diseases)
Thursday 17 October 2019
Authors: Knödlseder JM, Fell SF, Straubinger RK Abstract A total of 143 horses were included in a study to test a commercial vaccine against Lyme borreliosis. The vaccine contained three different antigens (outer surface protein A, OspA) to prevent the infection with spirochetes - B.burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii and B. garinii. Horses in Group A (49 animals) received two vaccinations on days 0 and 14 and a booster on day 365, whereas 50 horses in Group B received an additional booster vaccination on day 180. Group C (44 animals) was not immunized. Total antibody levels and specific OspA antibody responses were assessed quantitatively and qualitatively in two-month intervals over 13-month period. Vaccinees in Groups A and B developed high OspA antibodies levels, whereas hor...
Thursday 17 October 2019
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): Nicole E. Breuner, Shelby L. Ford, Andrias Hojgaard, Lynn M. Osikowicz, Christina M. Parise, Maria F. Rosales Rizzo, Ying Bai, Michael L. Levin, Rebecca J. Eisen, Lars EisenAbstractThe invasive, human-biting Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, was detected in New Jersey in the eastern United States in August of 2017 and by November of 2018 this tick had been recorded from 45 counties across 9 states, primarily along the Eastern Seaboard. The establishment of H. longicornis in the United States has raised the questions of how commonly it will bite humans and which native pathogens may naturally infect this tick. There also is a need for experimental vector competence studies with ...
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Thursday 17 October 2019
LYME disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. Ticks are tiny spider-like creatures found in woodland and heath areas. They feed on the blood of birds, mammals and humans. Feeling this sensation in your head could mean you have Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Rapid assay for Lyme disease could lead to a practical test for use by healthcare providers. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Tuesday 15 October 2019
DR MARTIN SCURR: Pat Toovey from Norfolk found a tick on his wife's back two years ago and she is constantly in pain and struggles to get out of bed. He fears she has Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 14 October 2019
CONCLUSION: Different specific molecules of the vector, pathogen and host result in LNB establishment. After B. burgdorferi species penetrate host skin through a tick bite, they are confronted by the immune defenses of the host. However, they are helped by specific proteins in different interactions, and the disease is established. The interactions between the vector, pathogen and host are shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Knowledge of these molecular interactions can aid development of therapeutics against LNB and LD. Others: We systematically describe the different molecular tick-pathogen-host interactions. PMID: 31613726 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Current Protein and Peptide Science)
Monday 14 October 2019
Authors: Norte AC, Lopes de Carvalho I, Núncio MS, Araújo PM, Matthysen E, Albino Ramos J, Sprong H, Heylen D Abstract Wild birds are frequently exposed to the zoonotic tick-borne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), and some bird species act as reservoirs for some Borrelia genospecies. Studying the tropism of Borrelia in the host, how it is sequestered in different organs, and whether it is maintained in circulation and/or in the host's skin is important to understand pathogenicity, infectivity to vector ticks and reservoir competency.We evaluated tissue dissemination of Borrelia in blackbirds (Turdus merula) and great tits (Parus major), naturally and experimentally infected with Borrelia genospecies from enzootic foci. We collected both minimally invasive biologica...
Monday 14 October 2019
Discussion Lyme disease (LD) is caused by several genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi senu lato that are transmitted by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. In the U.S. and Europe it is the most common vector-borne disease. It is named for Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s when it was “discovered,” but there are reports of LD-type disease in Europe since 1883. There are 18 distinct genospecies with B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto being the 3 most common ones causing human infection. There are many species of Ixodes ticks but only 4 commonly bite humans. Ixodes ricinus mainly in Europe, I, persultcatus in Asia, I. scapularis in the eastern and central US, and I. pacificus in the western US and Canada. However I. pacificus is rarely infected and accounts for ...
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Monday 14 October 2019
Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum are tick-borne infections transmitted by Ixodes scapularis in the eastern USA; both agents cause disease in dogs and people. To characterize changes in seropreva... (Source: Parasites and Vectors)
Friday 11 October 2019
With an increase of nearly 10,000 cases of tickborne disease from 2016 to 2017 -- mostly lyme disease -- the National Institutes of Health announced a five-year plan to expand research and reduce infections. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Thursday 10 October 2019
Most people who think they have chronic Lyme disease are more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome, say experts. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Thursday 10 October 2019
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which is spread to humans via tick bites. The most notable symptom is the rash that develops, but not all symptoms associated with the condition necessarily point to Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 10 October 2019
Combatting Lyme disease myths and the "chronic Lyme industry". CMAJ. 2019 Oct 07;191(40):E1111-E1112 Authors: Glauser W PMID: 31591102 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Canadian Medical Association Journal)
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Wednesday 9 October 2019
People who think they have a long-lasting form of Lyme disease are taking antibiotics for many months and may be treating the wrong disease (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Monday 7 October 2019
The first human Lyme vaccine was pulled off the market nearly 20 years ago. A new effort faces lingering suspicions.Undark (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Monday 7 October 2019
Persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme borreliosis often include self-reported cognitive impairment. However, it remains unclear whether these symptoms can be substantiated by objective cognitive testing. (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Friday 4 October 2019
CONCLUSIONS: Lyme disease is a serious health risk in Bulgaria especially in its northern part - regions on the north are the most vulnerable to a higher incidence of the disease. PMID: 31580560 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Central European Journal of Public Health)
Friday 4 October 2019
Authors: Rifkin LM, Vadboncoeur J, Minkus CC, Dunn EN, Moorthy RS, Bhatt N, Sen HN, Taggart MG, Vitale AT, Goldstein DA PMID: 31577476 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Ocular Immunology and Inflammation)
Thursday 3 October 2019
CONCLUSIONS: This report provides an important complementary source of data to best understand trends in and spread of NLTBI. PMID: 31584611 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology)
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Wednesday 2 October 2019
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Wednesday 2 October 2019
This article provides an update on changes in case definitions that have been made since the case definitions were last published in 2009, and describes updates that have been made to the interactive website since 2013. Changes were made to the case definitions of five diseases. For hepatitis C, the new case definition now distinguishes between acute and chronic infection. For cyclosporiasis, the probable case definition requires an epidemiologic link, with the clarification that this would likely be due to exposure to a common food source. For rabies, the probable case definition now refers to detection of rabies-neutralizing antibody instead of specific antibody titres. For Lyme disease, the revised confirmed and probable case definitions now identify five options for Lyme disease risk a...
Tuesday 1 October 2019
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2019Source: Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesAuthor(s): P. Letertre-Gibert, G. Vourc’h, I. Lebert, M. Rene-Martellet, V. Corbin-Valdenaire, D. Portal-Martineau, J. Beytout, O. LesensAbstractThe incidence of Lyme borreliosis remains a matter of debate, but it can be estimated using the incidence of erythema migrans (EM), which is pathognomonic of the first phase. The aim of this prospective pilot study was to assess the feasibility of the on-line declaration of EM in rural areas where the incidence of Lyme borreliosis was previously estimated at 85 per 100,000 inhabitants per year.The study was limited to a rural area (Les Combrailles, Auvergne) of approximately 52,800 inhabitants and was preceded by an information campaign for the inhabitants a...
Monday 30 September 2019
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Monday 30 September 2019
Conclusions: S. pneumoniae remains the most frequently observed causative bacterial pathogen associated with community-acquired CNS infections. Incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in our county is higher than the national average (2.3 versus 0.35/100 000 person/year). Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(40): 1574-1583. PMID: 31565975 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Orvosi Hetilap)
Monday 30 September 2019
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Sunday 29 September 2019
Authors: Nakayama S, Kobayashi T, Nakamura A, Yoshitomi H, Song Y, Ashizuka Y Abstract We surveyed the presence of Borrelia spp. in ticks collected from vegetation by flagging and from wild animals from May 2017 to November 2018 in Fukuoka, located in the northern Kyushu area of Japan. A total of 1,601 ticks were collected and morphologically separated into 9 species: Ixodes turdus, I. ovatus, Amblyomma testudinarium, Haemaphysalis flava, H. formosensis, H. kitaokai, H. longicornis, H. hystricis, and H. megaspinosa. The ticks were segregated into 561 pools and nested PCR was used to detect borrelial DNA. Borrelia turdi and Borrelia sp. HM were identified in two of the 561 pools. This is the first report on the presence of Lyme diseases group of Borrelia and Relapsing fever group of...
Saturday 28 September 2019
ConclusionsAlthough peripheral facial palsy was predominantly idiopathic (75.3%) in our cohort, the disease was caused in approximately 25% of the patients by factors which require specific treatment. In the present study, CSF analysis proved to be the leading method for the diagnosis of Ramsay-Hunt-Syndrome, Lyme Neuroborreliosis, and other CNS infections. These subgroups made up approximately 15% of our cohort. To detect these subgroups reliably, routine use of CSF analysis in peripheral facial palsy may be advisable, whereas MRI proved to be useful for exclusion of otogenic and neoplastic processes with a sensitivity of 83% and 88%. We found that the use of MRI with contrast-enhancing compounds does not provide additional diagnostic information on the day of hospital admission. Hence, t...
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Friday 27 September 2019
This prospective cohort study examines the association between seropositivity to Borrelia burgdorferi and incidental neuropsychiatric disorders and functional decline in rural southwestern France. (Source: JAMA Neurology)
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Abstract: Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative organism of Lyme disease, has been linked to the development of scleroatrophic skin conditions including morphea, although this association remains controversial. The possibility that tick bite with or without concurrent Borrelia infection instigates that morphea development is important to recognize because this could prompt further workup for Lyme disease, or other tick-borne illness, which, when untreated, can have devastating consequences. Here, we report a case of a woman with a history of previous tick bite in the location of morphea. This prompted further workup, including serologies that were negative for borrelia. The patient declined empiric treatment with doxycycline. It is important to be aware that morphea may represent a consequ...
Tuesday 24 September 2019
[Erratum to "Lyme borreliosis and other tick-borne diseases. Guidelines from the French scientific societies" [Med. Mal. Infect. 49 (2019) 296-317]]. Med Mal Infect. 2019 Oct;49(7):558-559 Authors: Gocko X, Lenormand C, Lemogne C, Bouiller K, Gehanno JF, Rabaud C, Perrot S, Eldin C, de Broucker T, Roblot F, Toubiana J, Sellal F, Vuillemet F, Sordet C, Fantin B, Lina G, Sobas C, Jaulhac B, Figoni J, Chirouze C, Hansmann Y, Hentgen V, Caumes E, Dieudonné M, Picone O, Bodaghi B, Gangneux JP, Degeilh B, Partouche H, Saunier A, Sotto A, Raffetin A, Monsuez JJ, Michel C, Boulanger N, Cathebras P, Tattevin P, endorsed by the following scientific societies PMID: 31542149 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses)
Monday 23 September 2019
Just over 20 years ago, a Lyme disease vaccine called LYMErix was approved for sale in the United States. Researchers designed the vaccine to prevent the transmission of the tick-borne pathogen Borellia burgdorferi, which spurs a bacterial infection that can cause fever, headaches, and joint pain if left untreated. The... (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Saturday 14 September 2019
Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.Medscape (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
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Friday 13 September 2019
Dr Paul Auwaerter comments on the newly approved, modified two-tier approach for diagnosing Lyme disease.Medscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Friday 6 September 2019
Recently, the FDA cleared several Lyme disease serologic assays with new indications for use, allowing for an EIA rather than western immunoblot assay as a confirmatory test.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 4 September 2019
Analysis (n=2361) noted significant increase (p (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Tuesday 3 September 2019
John St Julien, now 34, moved to east Africa in 2014 to launch a charity helping local children be educated. He soon started to feel run down but dismissed it as the pressure of his job. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 26 August 2019
Finding an effective way to prevent the spread of tick-borne illness such as Lyme disease has been quite challenging over the past several decades. Researchers have now developed a new approach that goes right to the place where a tick transmits disease: its salivary glands. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Saturday 24 August 2019
LYME disease may have an innocent sounding name, but it ’s a nasty condition transmitted by ticks which, left untreated, can lead to severe health problems. Here are three parts of body you should always check after visiting grassy and woodland areas, as well as other symptoms you should look out for. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 19 August 2019
Public comments are still being accepted, but antibiotic treatment options for children are likely to be expanded to include the use of doxycycline. (Source: NYT Health)
Friday 16 August 2019
FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 -- The Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American College of Rheumatology have released a draft of their joint clinical practice guidelines for the management of Lyme... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Thursday 15 August 2019
Disease most common in women aged 61 to 65 Related items fromOnMedica Not tackling infections in homeless could spark epidemics Concerns over UK young adults ’ readiness for first sex Malaria cases rise sharply Texting can improve flu jab uptake HPV programme linked to dramatic fall in cervical disease (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Thursday 15 August 2019
Lyme disease is a tickborne zoonosis for which serologic testing is the principal means of laboratory diagnosis. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
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Thursday 15 August 2019
White older women in south-west England appear most likely to contract the disease, a study suggests. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Thursday 15 August 2019
Scientists from the National Institute for Health Research in London analysed 2,361 patients who were admitted to hospital with the bacterial infection between 1998 and 2015. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 12 August 2019
LYME disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. The condition can be treated effectively if detected early, but a delay in recognising it can increase the risk of developing long-lasting symptoms. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Sunday 11 August 2019
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 8/10/19 On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases and vaccine expert, gives an update on infectious disease hot topics, including Lyme disease, the ongoing concern about measles, the hope for a universal flu vaccine and new age guidelines for the HPV vaccine. Also on the podcast, Dr. John Lieske explains how kidney stones form and how [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Sunday 11 August 2019
Some tick-spread bacteria could be weaponized — but this would be a pretty useless choice. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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Wednesday 7 August 2019
LYME DISEASE is a tick-borne infectious disease. Initial symptoms are usually mild, but if left untreated, more serious symptoms may reveal themselves. Have you spotted these serious signs? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 7 August 2019
Steph Todd, from Thornbury in Gloucestershire, said people say her seizures make it look like she is 'possessed' and that she desperately wants treatment in the US. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 7 August 2019
An Ontario health advocacy group is calling for more action to protect children from the harmful impacts of climate change. The group says cases of asthma, heat stroke and Lyme disease could all be on the rise in the coming decades. (Source: CBC | Health)
Saturday 3 August 2019
We know far too little about Lyme and how to diagnose it, let alone have agreement between major advisory groups as to how to treat the disease. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Friday 2 August 2019
Several groups have differing guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme. Too much is in dispute, since our knowledge is so limited. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Friday 2 August 2019
As tick populations take hold permanently in large swaths of Canada, more people will be exposed and contract Lyme disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Thursday 1 August 2019
UK cohort study (n=8.4 million) found that the number of cases of Lyme disease has increased rapidly since 2001, resulting in an incidence of 12.1 per 100,000 per year in 2012. Authors state that this should lead to increased awareness and the need for preventative measures. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Thursday 1 August 2019
LYME DISEASE is on the rise according to Doctor Hilary on Lorraine with new cases of the disease everyday. What is it and how to know if you might have it? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 1 August 2019
Cases of a nasty infection passed on through tick bites may be much higher in the UK than previously thought, according to new research. (Source: Nursing Times)
Wednesday 31 July 2019
LYME DISEASE is currently on the rise, as scientists have found there could be far more cases of the disease than previously estimated. What are the symptoms of Lyme disease? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Wednesday 31 July 2019
Researchers say tick-borne disease ‘is everywhere’ with 8,000 diagnoses likely in 2019Cases of Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates, according to new research.After analysing the anonymous medical records of 8.4 million people from across the UK, scientists forecast that the total number of Lyme disease diagnoses in the UK could top 8,000 in 2019, compared withpreviousestimates of between 2,000 and 3,000 annual diagnoses.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Wednesday 31 July 2019
Lexington sepsis and lyme disease diagnostics maker T2 Biosystems will need a new CEO to lead it through its ongoing financial struggles. T2 Biosystems (Nasdaq: TTOO) reported after markets closed Tuesday that CEO John McDonough will be stepping down from his role to become executive chairman of the company's board of directors. He will stay in the CEO role until the company hires his successor, according to a press release. McDon ough has been in the top job at T2 since 2007, leading T2 Biosystems… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Wednesday 31 July 2019
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 -- The incidence of Lyme disease (LD) increased from 2001 to 2012 in the United Kingdom, with an estimated incidence rate of 12.1 per 100,000 individuals per year, according to a study published online July 30 in BMJ... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Tuesday 30 July 2019
New cases of tick-borne Lyme disease might top 8000 in 2019, researchers estimate Related items fromOnMedica Well over half of people have never had an STI test HPV programme linked to dramatic fall in cervical disease Should we have compulsory measles vaccination at school entry? Promise to end new HIV transmissions in England by 2030 Decision to give boys HPV jab will save thousands of lives (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Tuesday 30 July 2019
The modified approach for detecting exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi uses two enzyme immunoassays, with no need for Western blot.FDA Approvals (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
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Tuesday 30 July 2019
Kate Allen, 28, from Leicester, spotted raised bumps on her skin after walking her dog through long grass in the park in 30°C. Lyme disease is spread by tick bites. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 29 July 2019
Research has found strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to the carbapenems spreading through hospitals Related items fromOnMedica GPs given help to spot Lyme disease Single-dose malaria drug eliminates parasite from liver Antibiotic research programme launched Measles cases triple in Europe but immunisation rates grow Chief medical officer launches push for flu jab drive (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Monday 29 July 2019
The biggest problem is that there is no way to test, unequivocally, for the presence of the bacteria that cause the disease. (Source: NYT Health)
Monday 29 July 2019
Discussion Dengue is an important arboviral infection that affects about 40% of the world population. It is found mainly in topical and subtropical areas of the world mainly in developing countries but it range is spreading including the United States. A review of common arboviruses can be found here. It is a flaviavirus with 4 distinct serotypes named DENV-1 through DENV-4 and is spread by A. aegypti a day biting mosquito. Infection with one serotype confers immunity to that serotype but not the others. It does offer some protection for cross-infection but this only lasts a few months. Incubation period is 3-14 days with an average of 7 after exposure. A primary infection is usually benign. A second infection with another serotype or multiple infections with different serotypes can caus...
Friday 26 July 2019
LYME DISEASE is known as a form of arthritis caused by bacteria that is transmitted by ticks. If detected early it can often be treated effectively. What are the three signs you may have Lyme disease? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Friday 26 July 2019
Carly Ellis, from Gloucester, was diagnosed with the infection in 2011, with doctors saying a two-week course of antibiotics would 'clear' her. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 25 July 2019
(CNN) — Health officials in Maine are warning about the potential for more cases of Powassan virus disease after one person was confirmed to be sick with the rare tick-borne illness, the first reported case in the state since 2017. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that a person in the southern part of the state had Powassan encephalitis, a severe disease that causes inflammation in the brain. The agency said the patient showed symptoms in late June and was hospitalized. The Maine CDC issued an advisory to physicians that more cases could be possible and suggested that doctors consider testing for the disease in patients with unexplained encephalitis, meningitis or high fever during the summer and early fall. Powassan virus disease is spread by three ...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Health officials have confirmed that an individual in Maine is sick with Powassan virus disease, marking the first time since 2017 that a person in the state has come down with the rare and serious tick-borne illness. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that a southern Maine resident was hospitalized for Powassan encephalitis—brain inflammation associated with the virus—after showing symptoms in late June. The announcement did not specify the individual’s current condition, but health officils doctors to stay vigilant about the potential spread of Powassan throughout the summer and early fall. Here’s what to know about the tick-borne Powassan virus disease. What is Powassan virus disease? Like Lyme disease, Powassan is spread by ...
Wednesday 24 July 2019
(University of California - Irvine) As Lyme disease increases, researchers have taken a significant step toward finding new ways to prevent its transmission. The experts, who include a pioneer in Lyme disease discovery, have sequenced the genome of the animal carrying the bacteria that causes the illness. The advance by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and colleagues provides a launching pad for fresh approaches to stopping Lyme disease from infecting people. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 23 July 2019
The ideal test for Lyme disease needs to be direct and highly sensitive in specific areas of detection. A new review highlights the 5 key criteria. (Source: ConsultantLive)
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Sunday 21 July 2019
The tick-borne illness, which is on the rise, can have chronic side-effects. So why hasn ’t more effort been put into a cure?As a former martial arts world champion, who trained daily and enjoyed camping and hiking at weekends, Stephen Bullough had always prided himself on leading a healthy life.Like most people, he thought very little when he was bitten by a tick on a camping holiday close to home in Wigan in 2014, never suspecting that this tiny bite would unleash an infection in his body that would one day leave him permanently incapacitated.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Saturday 20 July 2019
Ottawa Public Health has stopped collecting ticks after it found a high number of the arachnids within the city carry Lyme disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Friday 19 July 2019
After my tick bite I realised that the climate crisis was a more likely culprit than any conspiracy theory about weaponisationThe first indication I ’d picked up a tick-borne disease three years ago was the excruciating arthritic pain in my feet as I hobbled to a dinner party at a neighbour’s house in Jerusalem.Later that night I experienced flu-like symptoms, including a raging fever that, even with antibiotics, would last for more than a week.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Thursday 18 July 2019
Clare Haworth, from North Lanarkshire, first became ill six years ago but doesn't remember ever being bitten by a tick, which is how people catch Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 18 July 2019
Politicians in the US have ordered the military to reveal details of a programme believed to have tried to 'weaponise' ticks, which may have led to them escaping and spreading Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Friday 12 July 2019
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing Lyme disease in people of all ages. It also includes raising public awareness about prevention. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It was published in July 2019. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Thursday 11 July 2019
People presenting erythema migrans, the characteristic skin rash associated with Lyme disease, can be diagnosed and treated without the need for blood tests, NICE has said in a final quality standard published this week. (Source: NHS Networks)
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Lab tests not needed if rash is present, says NICE Related items fromOnMedica TB could be cured by four months ’ treatment in many patients Antibiotics courses often longer than guidelines Doctors call for StrepB screening in late pregnancy JCVI recommends universal HPV vaccination New ‘treadmill test’ can predict mortality (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Friday 5 July 2019
LYME DISEASE is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium named Borrelia, spread by ticks. It can easily be caught and having a feeling in your head could mean you have the disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 5 July 2019
Find out how park connectivity and landscape composition may contribute to Lyme disease risk in urban areas.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Wednesday 3 July 2019
With the start of peak tick season, check here to spot some of the latest developments in diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. (Source: ConsultantLive)
Tuesday 2 July 2019
This week's NYTimes did a disservice to readers by minimizing the severity of Lyme disease. Here's why. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Thursday 27 June 2019
BOSTON (CBS) – After more than a decade, experts are issuing new guidelines for the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease. Even though many of the recommendations are geared toward medical professionals, there are some key takeaways for the general public. Namely, the best way to protect yourself is to wear protective clothing and insect repellent with DEET and do frequent tick checks if you’ve been outdoors. Bathing within two hours of an outdoor activity can reduce the risk of Lyme disease. And if you have pets, you should check them regularly for ticks to prevent the ticks from falling off and reattaching to humans. If you are bitten by a deer tick, it’s engorged, and it has been attached for 36 hours or more, you should call your doctor or get to an urgent care fac...
Thursday 27 June 2019
Horror stories about lingering Lyme disease proliferate, but the illness is easily treated. (Source: NYT Health)
Tuesday 25 June 2019
Joseph Leone seemed to have a mild cold in the summer of 2013. A month later, he collapsed on the front lawn of his home in Poughkeepsie, New York. He died of Lyme disease that attacked his heart. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Friday 21 June 2019
New Yale research offers insight into why some Lyme disease patients continue to suffer from debilitating arthritis even after antibiotic treatment. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Friday 21 June 2019
Katherine Wood, 37, of Stow, Massachusetts, was bitten on a tick while on a nature walk in November 2016. Doctors dismissed her symptoms, until she was diagnosed with Lyme disease in July 2017. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Lyme disease can cause long-term joint inflammation that lasts long after the body has cleared the infection. A new study uncovers how this might happen. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Monday 17 June 2019
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 17 June 2019
Morven-May MacCallum speaks out as GPs are urged to be vigilant about the infection spread by ticks. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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Saturday 15 June 2019
It got its start in developing a urine test for human growth hormones. But it hopes to go well beyond that now. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Monday 10 June 2019
The tick that carries Lyme can also transmit the rare but serious powassan virus believed to have killed one man and sickened another in New Jersey (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Monday 10 June 2019
Being outdoors during the warm weather season carries with it the risk of bites of all kinds – insects, animals, ticks and others. Here is some helpful advice for treating bites and itching. Check the symptoms. Most insect bites and stings are mild, causing minor symptoms like itching, redness, stinging or a small degree of swelling around the bite. In some rare cases, stings from hornets, bees, wasps, scorpions or fire ants may lead to more serious reactions, including mosquito-borne West Nile virus. The Mayo Clinic advises moving away from the area where you were stung or bitten to prevent further injury. Then, try to remove the stinger if needed, and wash the wound with soap and water. For tick bites, remove the tick immediately. The Cleveland Clinic says the longer a tick...
Monday 10 June 2019
There are new concerns about previously-rare types of tick-borne diseases being seen more frequently in the United States. The blacklegged tick not only spreads Lyme disease, it can also transmit a serious virus that may have killed one man and made another sick in New Jersey. In Kentucky, a two-year-old boy is reportedly recovering from another tick-borne disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Dr. David Agus joins "CBS This Morning" from Los Angeles to discuss how to protect yourself from ticks, how to remove them and the consequences of some tick-borne diseases. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
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Friday 7 June 2019
BOSTON (CBS) — Looking back at baby pictures reminds Brandi Dean of a terrifying scare during her second pregnancy. It turns out the Wellesley mom had Lyme disease. “All of a sudden, the right side of my body was completely numb. My heart was racing. I was disoriented and I said, ‘I think you need to take me to the hospital,’” she remembered. After the standard antibiotic treatment, Dean still didn’t feel right. “I’d gone to 12 different specialists and they all had diagnosed me with anxiety.” She had what the Centers for Disease Control calls Post-Treatment Lyme Syndrome. She eventually found a doctor who understood her condition and recovered. Brandi Dean (WBZ-TV) Doctors don’t always know what causes the lingering symptoms, making the diagnosis controversial ...
Friday 7 June 2019
-- Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium that may be acquired from the bite of an infected tick. Left untreated, the infection can spread throughout the body and cause serious complications, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Tuesday 4 June 2019
Christine Jennings, 57, of Leicester, was bitten by an infected tick 25 years ago and her life has never been the same. The disease affected every part of her health leaving her barely holding on to life. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 3 June 2019
Discussion Facial nerve palsy has been known for centuries, but in 1821 unilateral facial nerve paralysis was described by Sir Charles Bell. Bell’s palsy (BP) is a unilateral, acute facial paralysis that is clinically diagnosed after other etiologies have been excluded by appropriate history, physical examination and/or laboratory testing or imaging. Symptoms include abnormal movement of facial nerve. It can be associated with changes in facial sensation, hearing, taste or excessive tearing. The right and left sides are equally affected but bilateral BP is rare (0.3%). Paralysis can be complete or incomplete at presentation. All ages can be affected but there are increased risks in the 15-45 year age group and those with diabetes, immunodeficiency or are pregnant. Etiology is specif...
Wednesday 29 May 2019
With climate change, we are seeing more tick-borne diseases. Where is the funding to address this urgent crisis? (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Monday 27 May 2019
UK researchers discover new compound which kills antibiotic-resistant superbugs Related items fromOnMedica GPs given help to spot Lyme disease Single-dose malaria drug eliminates parasite from liver TB could be cured by four months ’ treatment in many patients Antibiotics courses often longer than guidelines 'Keep Antibiotics Working' campaign resurfaces (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Saturday 25 May 2019
LYME disease is a relatively unknown condition with an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new cases each year in England and Wales. For an unknown disease however, anyone can develop the condition as its caught by a tick. This major symptom could mean you might have Lyme disease. Do you have it? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 23 May 2019
Tick bites: First aid Most tick bites are painless and cause only minor symptoms, such as redness, swelling or a sore on the skin. But some ticks transmit bacteria that cause illnesses, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Learn the correct way to remove and handle a tick, and when you need to [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Monday 20 May 2019
Lyme disease and rheumatoid arthritis are both conditions that can affect the nervous system and cause joint pain and swelling. Learn about their similarities and differences here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Infected ticks were mostly found in forested parks with vegetation around the edges and connected to each other. (Source: WebMD Health)
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Wednesday 15 May 2019
Clive Stafford Smithsays Sats are irrelevant to his son ’s life andMary Bousteddefends Labour ’s proposed assessment reforms, whileAnn MooreandRichard Wetherellhighlight the negative effects of testsAmanda Spielman may be warning the wrong people about exam anxiety, certainly as far as younger kids are concerned (Ofsted chief says teachers can cause ‘subliminal’ exam anxiety, May 14). My 10-year-old is not worried because I have told him Sats are irrelevant to his life. His secondary school will determine how best he will fit in, based on its own testing, when he gets there in September. I did ask him to do his best in sympathy with the people who are sweating it out this week: his excellent teachers, whose lives – and the rating of the school – depend on how he does at rote no...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 -- As deer populations have exploded across America, moving from forests to suburbs to urban parks, they have brought the threat of Lyme disease to millions of city dwellers, a new study finds. In fact, the deer tick that... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Friday 10 May 2019
LYME disease is still a relatively unknown disease with a myriad of symptoms which makes it difficult to detect. One such unusual symptom is that of losing your voice which left untreated could lead to vocal chord paralysis. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Dr Tillmann Jacobi considers red flag symptoms in erythema and details three of the most common causes; Lyme disease, erythema infectiosum and erythema multiforme. (Source: GP Online Education)
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Researchers from across Europe, including the University of East London, mapped reports of the Lyme disease-causing Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria in ticks from 2010 to 2017. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Friday 3 May 2019
Might some patients with early Lyme disease show evidence of co-infection with other tickborne pathogens?Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Thursday 2 May 2019
LYME DISEASE is a bacterial infection that affects up to 3,000 people in the UK every year. ITV This Morning ’s Dr Ranj has revealed the lyme disease signs and symptoms to watch out for, including a characteristic rash. Watch out for these symptoms are a tick bite. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 23 April 2019
TUESDAY, April 23, 2019 -- With growing concern about mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika, it's easy to let down your guard when it comes to ticks. But Lyme disease is still a danger, especially in the Northeast and upper Midwest. In fact, it has... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Tuesday 23 April 2019
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that a slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria caused severe symptoms in a mouse model. The slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria, according to the researchers, may account for the persistent symptoms seen in ten to twenty percent of Lyme patients that are not cured by the current Lyme antibiotic treatment. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Wednesday 17 April 2019
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Tuesday 19 March 2019
Kate Winslet picture about renowned fossil hunter had been criticised by relatives for ‘unconfirmed’ portrait of her sexualityThe director of a new biopic about the celebrated fossil hunter Mary Anning has defended his film after criticism of its lesbian romance storyline.Ammonite, which stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, recently began filming in Lyme Regis, the coastal town in Dorset where Anning lived in the early 19th century. Anning never married and is not known to have had any direct descendants, but a report in the Telegraph suggested her distant relatives were at odds over the film ’s central relationship, a romance between Anning and Frances Bell, with whom Anning is known to have corresponded.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Thursday 14 March 2019
As I struggle with chronic pain, cozy for me is less hygge and more my ex-boyfriend ’ s mother, nurses with juice and weird, sandy doughnuts. (Source: NYT Health)
Friday 8 March 2019
To what extent did the invasion of the blacklegged tick contribute to the spread of Lyme disease?Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Tuesday 5 March 2019
EAST HADDAM, Conn. (WTNH) - A meeting is set to take place on Saturday to discuss a growing concern in East Haddam where a number of EMS volunteers resigned from their positions, putting a bit of strain on neighboring communities. Ten people have left East Haddam Ambulance since the beginning of the year. It's a non-profit organization that gets about 800 calls a year. Since they're down so many people, about 20 percent of the emergency calls in East Haddam are being taken care of by other emergency crews in neighboring towns like Haddam, Lyme, East Hampton, and Colchester. (Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News)
Tuesday 5 March 2019
(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Health Data Sciences Institute (HDSI) have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to better match cancer patients with clinical trials. The researchers were one of ten teams to develop a digital tool to address complex challenges relevant to medical conditions such as cancer and Lyme disease as part of The Opportunity Project (TOP) Health Sprint. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
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Monday 18 February 2019
Laura Macleod, 31, tested positive for Lyme disease in 2016 but the standard treatment did nothing to alleviate her symptoms. Now, wants to travel to Germany for dangerous full body heating. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 15 February 2019
This meta-analysis suggests that when symptoms of the disease are confined to a localised skin infection, treatment failures are relatively infrequent, only 2% at 12 months. Effective antibiotics include penicillin V, doxycycline, azithromycin, cefuroxime, amoxicillin and ceftriaxone plus doxycycline.The research has significant limitations, but choice, dose and duration of antibiotics appear to have little impact on outcomes. This research does not suggest that guidelines need to be reviewed. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Tuesday 12 February 2019
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which is spread to humans by infected ticks. Blood tests have been available for some time to confirm or rule out the condition. But now health experts are advising doctors a ‘bull’s eye’ rash alone can diagnose Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 12 February 2019
The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence urges medics to just look for the rash - which is present in around two-thirds of cases - due to lab tests not always picking up on the infection. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 12 February 2019
LYME disease is a bacterial infection which is spread to humans by infected ticks. Blood tests have been available for some time to confirm or rule out the condition. But now health experts are advising doctors a ‘bull’s eye’ rash alone can diagnose Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Tuesday 12 February 2019
The rash is diagnostic and means the patient needs urgent antibiotics, new guidelines tell doctors. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Tuesday 12 February 2019
GPs told not to wait for the results of blood tests before starting antibiotics if rash present Related items fromOnMedica TB could be cured by four months ’ treatment in many patients Adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine best option for over-65s Rare polio-like illness on the rise MPs call for urgent action on antimicrobial resistance Chief medical officer launches push for flu jab drive (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Tuesday 12 February 2019
People showing erythema migrans, the characteristic skin rash associated with Lyme disease, can be diagnosed without the need for blood tests, NICE says in new guidance. (Source: NHS Networks)
Wednesday 6 February 2019
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a PET imaging technique...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: PET's view of tau could explain women's early dementia PET in the paddock New PET tracer could aid melanoma detection PET tracers help guide breast cancer therapies C-11-based PET tracer could benefit arthritis patients (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Tuesday 5 February 2019
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) More than 1 in 10 people successfully treated with antibiotics for Lyme disease go on to develop chronic, sometimes debilitating, and poorly understood symptoms of fatigue and brain fog that may last for years after their initial infection has cleared up. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Wednesday 16 January 2019
Review in-depth clinical information, latest medical news, and guidelines on Lyme tick disease or Lyme borreliosis. Review articles on the management of Lyme disease symptoms, including Lyme disease rash, and Lyme disease treatment. (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Alexandra Wall, 33, of south-west London, was diagnosed with Brugada syndrome decades after the ordeal when she saw a cardiologist while battling Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Sunday 6 January 2019
Naturalist ’s symptoms of diarrhoea, rashes, palpitations and flatulence could have been tick infection, say researchersHe travelled the world studying exotic creatures in dangerous lands, but the disease that marred Charles Darwin ’s life may have been caught closer to home as he trudged around Britain collecting insects, shooting birds, and picking up stones, researchers say.The Victorian naturalist who gave the world the theory of evolution is a strong contender for the most famously ill scientist in history. His diaries, notebooks and letters brim with despair over ailments ranging from diarrhoea, rashes and heart palpitations, to vomiting, muscle pain and incessant flatulence.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Wednesday 19 December 2018
(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) The immune system is composed of a wide range of different immune cells each with dedicated functions. Natural killer T cells form a specialized immune cell that protects against a variety of diseases such as cancer, autoimmunity, metabolic disease or certain infections such as Lyme disease (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Tuesday 4 December 2018
A new study finds that essential oils from garlic cloves, myrrh trees, thyme leaves, and several other herbs can kill forms of Lyme disease bacteria. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Monday 3 December 2018
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Oils from garlic and several other common herbs and medicinal plants show strong activity against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Salford University scientists made the discovery using azithromycin, which treats infections ranging from gonorrhoea to Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Writer, journalist and columnist James Dellingpole, 53, from Worcestershire, is one of many people who struggle with Lyme Disease. This is his story. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 20 November 2018
(University of Cincinnati) Biologists at the University of Cincinnati say the hungrier ticks are, the harder they try to find you or other hosts. The findings could have implications for the spread of tick-borne disease such as Lyme or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Monday 19 November 2018
Writer, journalist and columnist James Dellingpole, 53, from Worcestershire, is one of many people who struggle with Lyme Disease. This is his story. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 16 November 2018
FRIDAY, Nov. 16, 2018 -- Rising temperatures are expected to increase the number of cases of Lyme disease in the United States by more than 20 percent by mid-century, according to a study published online Oct. 24 in the Canadian Journal of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Thursday 15 November 2018
(CBS News) – New government research shows that tickborne diseases like Lyme disease continue to rise. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that in 2017, state and local health departments reported a record number of cases of illnesses spread by ticks. Cases of Lyme disease, Powassan virus; spotted fever rickettsiosis, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and tularemia all increased last year. The CDC said there were 59,349 confirmed cases of tickborne diseases in 2017, up from 48,610 in 2016. In past years, health officials have acknowledged that the true number of cases is likely many times higher than the officially tally. The findings reflect an accelerating trend of tick-related diseases reported ...
Wednesday 14 November 2018
A new report from the CDC shows that tickborne diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain spotted fever continue to rise (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
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Wednesday 14 November 2018
The 2017 tally of more than 59,000 cases is a 22 percent increase from the previous year. Lyme disease accounted for nearly three-quarters of the illnesses. That's about 43,000 cases. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 14 November 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say a record number of tick-borne diseases were reported last year. The 2017 tally of more than 59,000 cases is a 22 percent increase from the previous year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the numbers Wednesday. Lyme disease accounted for nearly three-quarters of the illnesses. That's about 43,000 cases. Traditionally about 30,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the government each year, but experts believed there was underreporting and thought the actual number was more like 300,000. Experts say better reporting may be a reason for recent increases, but scientists have also discovered more diseases transmitted by ticks. Researchers also note that disease-spreading ticks have been seen over a wide range of states. Edit...
Wednesday 14 November 2018
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14, 2018 -- The number of Americans with tickborne diseases reached a record high of nearly 60,000 in 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Most of those cases (42,743) were Lyme disease. There were 36,000... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Tuesday 13 November 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A disability insurer's conclusion that a claimant suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, which limited long-term disability benefits to 24 months, and not from symptoms of Lyme disease was not unreasonable based on the medical evidence in the administrative record, a District of Columbia federal judge said Nov. 7 (Wesley Loucka v. Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., No. 17-1375, D. D.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190935). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
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Tuesday 6 November 2018
Two Frogs Healing Center to share about microparticle "liposomes" for relieving chronic Lyme disease pain, fatigue, and mental(PRWeb November 06, 2018)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/microscopic_remedies_reduce_painful_toxins_in_persistent_lyme_disease_infections/prweb15895030.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Monday 5 November 2018
Blair Jollands, 47, from London, was happy and healthy until August 2015, when a tick bite changed everything - and he developed Lyme Disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 1 November 2018
(TellMed Strategies) To encourage greater understanding of the ability of Lyme bacteria to invade tissues and organs, Bay Area Lyme Foundation announces the addition of the Lyme Disease Tissue Collection Program to its Lyme Disease Biobank. This is the only national entity working to accelerate research by collecting surgical and post-mortem tissue samples from individuals with persistent Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections. The collaboration also involves the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) and MyLymeData Patient Registry. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Wednesday 31 October 2018
The emergence of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto-infected ticks in the Tennessee Valley highlights the need for Lyme disease awareness in the region.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 31 October 2018
(Carnegie Mellon University) A new study looked at the relationship between climatic variables and the incidence of Lyme disease in 15 U.S. states. The study found that rising temperatures are expected to boost the number of cases of Lyme disease by more than 20 percent by mid-century. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Tuesday 30 October 2018
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Each summer, some friends and I spend a week camping in a wilderness area in northern Minnesota. When we got back this year, a member of our group was diagnosed with Lyme disease. As we get ready to go next time, what should we do to protect ourselves from Lyme disease? ANSWER: [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Thursday 25 October 2018
A $1 million gift from the Steven& Alexandra Cohen Foundation will advance UCLA ’s mission to provide high-quality health care for people facing financial hardship and other challenges in access to quality care, as well as providing resources to treat children who are victims of sexual assault and victims of rape.“We are grateful to the Steven& Alexandra Cohen Foundation for its gift, and its continued support of our efforts, ” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health, CEO of the UCLA Hospital System, and associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences. “Steven and Alexandra’s previous generosity has been vital to our efforts, and this timely gift will make a profound difference in the lives of so many of ou r patients.”The gift also will benefit the Rape Treatme...
Thursday 25 October 2018
Lyme disease rashes can change throughout the stages of the illness. Untreated Lyme disease can have serious consequences, so people should be familiar with the symptoms and types of rash. Learn to identify Lyme disease rashes here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Friday 19 October 2018
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing Lyme disease. It aims to raise awareness of when Lyme disease should be suspected and ensure that people have prompt and consistent diagnosis and treatment. It does not cover preventing Lyme disease. The guideline was updated in October 2018. Treatment for Lyme carditis in haemodynamically unstable children aged 9-12 was changed to IV ceftriaxone. First alternative was changed to oral doxycycline (DX). Footnote was added on using clinical judgement to determine doses of DX in children (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Thursday 18 October 2018
In June 2016, a physician in northwestern Indiana reported a high prevalence of clinically diagnosed Lyme disease among his patients. To further evaluate these findings, the Indiana State Department of Health and CDC conducted a laboratory investigation using specimens from some of the patients. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Thursday 18 October 2018
In the report " National, Regional, State, and Selected Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13-17 Years - United States, 2017, " on page 914, in Table 2, the entry for the column " Difference " and row " ≥3 Hepatitis B doses " should have read -2.6 (-4.8 to -0.3). (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Thursday 18 October 2018
From 2007-2008 to 2015-2016, the age-adjusted percentage of adults who tried to lose weight during the past 12 months increased from 43.3% to 49.3%. This increase was seen among both men (35.5% to 42.2%) and women (51.2% to 56.3%). The percentage of women who tried to lose weight in the past year was higher than men for each survey year from 2007-2008 to 2015-2016. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
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Thursday 18 October 2018
In the report " Vaccination Coverage for Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten --- United States, 2017-18 School Year, " on page 1121, an incorrect figure was published. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Thursday 18 October 2018
In January 2018, a patient admitted to a Delaware hospital tested positive for hantavirus immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay testing. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Thursday 18 October 2018
-- If you want to lower your risk of getting Lyme disease, keeping ticks away is your best bet. Lymedisease.org offers these suggestions for reducing the tick population near your home: Prune trees. Clear brush. Remove litter. Mow grass short, and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
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Thursday 11 October 2018
(Rutgers University) Researchers have developed techniques to detect Lyme disease bacteria weeks sooner than current tests, allowing patients to start treatment earlier. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 9 October 2018
-- People aren't the only ones who are vulnerable to Lyme disease. Fido or Fluffy also could contract the illness from an infected tick. The American Kennel Club says Lyme disease occurs the most often in the Northeast, the Upper Midwest and on the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Thursday 4 October 2018
(MedPage Today) -- Meta-analysis finds little difference in efficacy, adverse effects (Source: MedPage Today Dermatology)
Monday 1 October 2018
(University of North Carolina Health Care) When patients present to providers in North Carolina for a possible tick bite, clinicians are not testing them for Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness that occurs more frequently than Lyme disease and as frequently as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Friday 28 September 2018
This prescribing bulletin summarising key recommendations from NICE guidance on Lyme disease, covers diagnosis, laboratory investigations, treatment and management, emergency referral, and antibiotic treatment. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
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Thursday 27 September 2018
“Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic Lyme disease, depression” – just some of the illnesses outlined by World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, who drove home the danger by asking delegates to stand up, when they heard the name of an illness that had killed someone they loved: One by one, every single person in the room, got to their feet. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Friday 21 September 2018
(Institut Pasteur) Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur found evidence of rapid bacterial transmission following a bite, with infection occurring within 24 hours of an adult tick bite. This is a timely reminder of the importance of removing ticks as soon as possible after being bitten to prevent infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Thursday 13 September 2018
Parched olive groves in northern Croatia, where West Nile Virus has already claimed one victim this year. West Nile Virus infections have sharply increased in Europe this year, the World Health Organisation says, largely due to a longer transmission season in the region which this year saw high temperatures and extended rainy spells followed by dry weather, helping mosquito breeding and propagation. Credit: Ed Holt/IPSBy Ed HoltVIENNA, Sep 13 2018 (IPS)Climate change and health experts are warning of the growing threat to public health in Europe from global warming as rising temperatures help potentially lethal diseases spread easily across the continent.This summer Europe has had to contend with record temperatures, drought, and destructive storms caused by heat and wildfires as forests i...
Monday 10 September 2018
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — New England’s hot summer might be helping keep the ticks that carry Lyme disease at bay. The Northeastern states — which are some of the worst for Lyme in the U.S., posing a hazard to residents and vacationers alike — are still totaling the number of Lyme cases from the summer months, and there will likely be more in the fall. But preliminary indicators show the disease abating, and public health authorities are finding fewer deer ticks, state officials and researchers said. In Maine, there had been a steady annual growth of Lyme cases, including a jump of 23 percent to more than 1,850 last year. But the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Lyme cases for May, June and July were below long-term averages. Those are major months for i...
Sunday 9 September 2018
New England's hot summer might be helping keep the ticks that carry Lyme disease at bay (Source: ABC News: Health)
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Tuesday 4 September 2018
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 9/1/18 On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, discuss vaccines for vector-borne illnesses, including Lyme disease and Zika virus. Dr. Poland also discusses the problem of vaccine hesitancy. Also on the podcast, Dr. Margaret Long, a gynecologist at Mayo Clinic, explains how [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Wednesday 15 August 2018
BOSTON (CBS) – More and more people are being afflicted by Lyme disease, not only here in New England but around the country. It begs the question, why don’t we have a vaccine to prevent this common tick-borne illness? A human vaccine was introduced in 1998. It was effective but expensive and there was public concern about its safety and sales were low, so it was yanked off the market four years later. Right now there is only a Lyme vaccine for dogs. Fortunately, there is a new vaccine for humans in the pipeline developed by a French company, which says it has received fast-track status from the FDA and hopes to get the vaccine licensed in about five years. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Tuesday 14 August 2018
The only vaccine was taken off the market more than 15 years ago. As reports of the disease skyrocket, researchers are working on a new one. (Source: NYT Health)
Friday 10 August 2018
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Wednesday 8 August 2018
Quest Diagnostics reports that Lyme disease, a tick-borne ailment, continues to swell and is a risk to people across the United States. (Source: AARP.org News)
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Tuesday 7 August 2018
A Vermont resident has died from a rare, Lyme disease complication where bacteria gets into the heart on the heels of news that all 50 states have residents tested positive for the disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 7 August 2018
New research finds cases of Lyme disease have exploded in unusual areas of the country (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Tuesday 7 August 2018
A Quest Diagnostics analysis showed that the largest increases in positive Lyme Disease tests outside the Northeastern U.S. occurred in Florida (77% increase) and California (194.5% increase). (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Monday 6 August 2018
The Asian long-horned tick, reported in New York ’ s suburbs and as far west as Arkansas, can carry lethal diseases. But no infected specimens have yet been found here. (Source: NYT Health)
Monday 6 August 2018
The chronic tick-borne illness has long been rampant across the North East, which has historically accounted for 95 percent of cases. But a new report shows a 194% rise in cases in California. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Thursday 2 August 2018
A new column by Yale pediatrician and epidemiologist Eugene Shapiro, M.D. sheds light on medical breakthroughs and common myths surrounding Lyme disease. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Thursday 2 August 2018
(Entomological Society of America) The textbook approach to managing disease outbreaks focuses on three factors -- pathogen, host, and environment--but it leaves out one critical component in the case of afflictions such as Zika, malaria, and Lyme: the insect or arthropod responsible for transmission to humans. A new report in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America proposes a new version of the classic 'epidemiologic triad' that better reflects the complexities of managing vector-borne diseases. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 1 August 2018
LYME disease symptoms are not always obvious. While a rash is one of the most notable signs you ’ve been bitten by an infected tick, flu-like symptoms can also develop. There are ways of preventing the disease, but is a vaccine one of them? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 31 July 2018
TUESDAY, July 31, 2018 -- There's been a sharp spike in Lyme disease cases in the United States, and the tick-borne illness has now spread to all 50 states, a new report shows. " Lyme disease is a bigger risk to more people in the United States than... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
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Monday 30 July 2018
TICK bites have been labelled the most dangerous insect bites in the UK. This is because the bite could transmit lyme disease, a serious illness. It could be possible to identify a tick bite by looking in these areas. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 25 July 2018
Sure, itchy bug bites are a nuisance. But for those living in parts of the country where mosquito or tick-borne illnesses are common—and these days, that’s most of us—bug-repellent sprays and liquids are an important safeguard against Lyme disease, West Nile virus and other serious health conditions. The annual number of people sickened by mosquitos or tick bites has more than tripled since 2004, according to the CDC. The World Health Organization has concluded that climate change is a likely contributor to these increases, which are predicted to continue as warmer global temperatures expand the habitats of mosquitos, ticks and other disease-spreading bugs. For all of these reasons, more and more people are looking for safe and effective ways to keep biting bugs at bay. ...
Saturday 21 July 2018
Horsefly bites can become infected and swollen if not treated properly. But, what is the worst UK insect to be bitten by? This spider-relative ’s bite could cause lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 20 July 2018
The device — designed to be less invasive, more accurate and faster than existing tests for Lyme disease — could make it to market as early as the end of next year. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Friday 20 July 2018
The device — designed to be less invasive, more accurate and faster than existing tests for Lyme disease — could make it to market as early as the end of next year. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Friday 20 July 2018
FRIDAY, July 20, 2018 -- Ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses have been identified in dozens of places across the United States where the pests had never previously been recorded, according to a study published... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Jo Ann Simon from Bethel, Connecticut, details the battle her husband Tom faced with Lyme-disease and ALS, discussing how the boisterous chef rapidly declined from his diagnosis to his death. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Insect bites can become infected and swollen if not treated properly. But, what is the worst UK insect to be bitten by? This spider-relative ’s bite could cause lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 13 July 2018
"Tick populations have exploded ," researchers say – even in counties where they were never seen before (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
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Friday 13 July 2018
Researchers in the Czech Republic uncovered proof ticks, which can carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, may prefer type A blood. Supermodel Bella Hadid has often spoken about her battle with Lyme. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 12 July 2018
THURSDAY, July 12, 2018 -- Think you live in a place that's free from disease-carrying ticks? Don't be so sure. Citizen scientists found ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses in dozens of places across the United... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Thursday 12 July 2018
(Colorado State University) A bite from a disease-carrying tick can transmit a serious, potentially fatal infection, such as Lyme disease. But many ticks go unnoticed and unreported. Now, with the help of citizen scientists, ecologists at Colorado State University and Northern Arizona University are offering better insight into people's and animals' potential exposure to tick-borne diseases -- not just the disease reporting and prevalence that's only tracked when people get sick. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Thursday 12 July 2018
(PLOS) A nationwide investigation of the prevalence and distribution of ticks and exposure to tick-borne diseases highlights the value of public participation in science. The study, published on July 12 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, was conducted by Nathan Nieto of Northern Arizona University and colleagues, and funded by Bay Area Lyme Foundation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 11 July 2018
(The University of Montana) University of Montana researchers Dan Drecktrah and Scott Samuels were recently awarded $449,998 from the National Institutes of Health for the first year of a five-year project to study the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Monday 9 July 2018
Just in time for summer hikes and outdoor play: A study finds that the ticks that often convey Lyme disease become unable to bite, and soon die after exposure to clothing treated with permethrin.(Image credit: Pearl Mak/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Monday 9 July 2018
Just in time for summer hikes and outdoor play, a study finds that the ticks that often convey Lyme disease become unable to bite, and soon die, after exposure to clothing treated with permethrin.(Image credit: Pearl Mak/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Monday 9 July 2018
(Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19 years of data on the ecology of tick-borne disease in a forested landscape, recently published in the journal Ecology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Friday 29 June 2018
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What is the best way to remove a tick? We live near a grassy area and find several every summer, and I worry about Lyme disease. But there is so much conflicting information online about how to remove a tick properly and what to do after. ANSWER: If you find a tick [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
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Thursday 28 June 2018
Rachel Gordon, 27, who is believed to be from London, was diagnosed with Lyme disease privately last year after NHS doctors told her she had chronic fatigue syndrome. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 25 June 2018
Former model Jessica Bennett says her life has been devastated by Lyme disease. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Thursday 21 June 2018
Amy B. Scher’s “This Is How I Save My Life” is the true story of a fiery young woman diagnosed with late-stage, chronic Lyme disease whose journey takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. This excerpt coincides with the book’s release in paperback from Gallery Books, an imprint CBS sister company Simon & Schuster. I am twenty-eight years old when I arrive in magnificent India. I am here with my parents, an updated vaccine record, and a visa, searching for something I cannot find at home: a cure. In a tiny hospital on the outskirts of Delhi, a female Indian doctor is offering experimental embryonic stem cell therapy to patients from all over the world. That is what I have come for. For the past seven years, my body h...
Thursday 21 June 2018
The most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. (30,000+ new cases a year), Lyme disease produces a wide range of symptoms ranging from fever and rash to arthritis and paralysis. Thanks to biotech, genome sequencing and precision medicine, prevention, early detection and treatment are now possible. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Tuesday 19 June 2018
(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Doctors found that cases of Lyme disease in children have increased exponentially in western Pennsylvania. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 4 June 2018
This article originally appeared on Health.com (Source: TIME: Health)
Wednesday 30 May 2018
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Monday 28 May 2018
Drug company Valneva, based in Lyon, France, has successfully completed the first ever human trial for a vaccine against Lyme disease which affects 600,000 people every year. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Thursday 24 May 2018
As we enter what is expected to be the worst season for ticks in years, you may want to invest in repellent clothing to guard against Lyme disease, as a CDC study found the garments immobilize bugs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 24 May 2018
(Indiana University) A new environmental monitoring project at Indiana University has found increased numbers of deer ticks, which often carry Lyme disease, in Southern Indiana. The presence of an organism that carries a specific disease-causing bacterium -- like deer ticks -- is commonly followed by a rise in the associated illness. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 22 May 2018
With the increase in vector-borne disease, we need more than an ounce of prevention. What we really need is a vaccine for Lyme disease.Medscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Monday 21 May 2018
Health officials combine surveillance of human cases, dogs and ticks in the field to track the spread of the disease across the country. (Source: CBC | Health)
Friday 18 May 2018
We at the GMR office are pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota-Duluth has been granted a Health Information Outreach award to support their research into Lyme disease. Project Description – The Ixodes Outreach Project is a concerted effort to tackle the emerging epidemic of Lyme disease in the upper Midwest. Dr. Ben Clarke and his team at the University of Minnesota-Duluth will be promoting awareness of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through educational outreach activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience. The primary component of this research project comes in the form of distributed tick-kits. These kits contain: information cards on tick/Lyme disease identification, a tick removal ‘key’, collection t...
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Friday 18 May 2018
Tick bites: First aid? Most tick bites are painless and cause only minor symptoms, such as redness, swelling or a sore on the skin. But some ticks transmit bacteria that cause illnesses, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Learn the correct way to remove and handle a tick, and when you need to [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Thursday 17 May 2018
This article originally appeared on Health.com (Source: TIME: Health)
Wednesday 16 May 2018
This NICE Guidance was published in April 2018. It covers diagnosing and managing Lyme disease. It aims to raise awareness of when Lyme disease should be suspected and ensure that people have prompt and consistent diagnosis and treatment. It does not cover preventing Lyme disease. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Thursday 10 May 2018
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 05/08/2018 This 27-minute teleconference focuses on new information about the nation's growing burden of disease from mosquitoes, ticks, and flea bites, and the important role that state and local departments and vector control organizations have in controlling them. These vector-borne diseases include dengue, Zika, West Nile, chikungunya, Lyme disease, and plague. Speakers also discuss the Minnesota Department of Health Vectorborne Diseases Unit, and Mosquito Control Program in New Orleans. (Video or Multimedia) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
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Tuesday 8 May 2018
Mikayla Vacher, 23, from Rhode Island was officially diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was just eighteen years old. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 8 May 2018
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) For years, TickReport at UMass Amherst has tracked the incidence and spread of Lyme disease and the introduction of new bacterial and viral tick-borne illnesses such as the Borrelia miyamotoi and Powassan virus in the state. Now a new $100,000 grant from the CDC to the state's public health department will subsidize the cost of tick testing for Massachusetts residents. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 7 May 2018
While many Wisconsin residents are more than ready to take advantage of the warmer weather and enjoy all the resources the state has to offer, the Department of Health Services (DHS) strongly encourages everyone to take care to avoid tick and mosquito bites. Both ticks and mosquitoes can transmit various illnesses.Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks, andWest Nile virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes,...(see release) (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)
Monday 7 May 2018
The tick-borne illness is spreading north and south — about 300,000 U.S. cases a year. As scientists work on better diagnostic tests and surveillance tools, you can take steps to cut your risk.(Image credit: Kenneth H Thomas/Science Source/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Friday 4 May 2018
The number of Americans infected by mosquito, tick, and flea bites tripled in the United States from 2004 to 2016, and a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the country is not prepared to deal with the continuing threat. Mosquitos, ticks and fleas are "vectors" that can spread pathogens like dengue, Zika, Lyme disease or plague through their bite. The CDC reported more than 640,000 cases of these diseases in the period studied as well as the introduction or discovery… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
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Thursday 3 May 2018
Illnesses caused by disease-infected ticks, mosquitoes and fleas have tripled in the U.S. in recent years, according to a new?report?from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lyme disease is the most common illness attributed to ticks. "It's the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere and in North America, in the U.S. [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Wednesday 2 May 2018
BOSTON (CBS) — A Center for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) report is raising concerns. From 2004-2016 the amount of tick, mosquito, and flea-transmitted diseases have tripled in the U.S. Nearly 60% of the diseases detected came from ticks. Dr. David Crandell, clinical co-director for the Dean Center Tick-Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, says he’s not surprised. Dr. Crandell believes an increase in Lyme disease diagnosis comes from better testing and more importantly, a better understanding of the disease and the signs. He says symptoms include: Malaise, almost like a flu-like symptom, people using presenting fever, cardiac arrhythmia Dr. Crandell says many people could have been bitten without ever seeing a tick on their body. He recommends wearing pants...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases. 05/01/2018 This Web page provides information about bites from mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, which can be vectors for spreading pathogens and vector-borne disease, like dengue, Zika, Lyme, or plague. It discusses what state and local public health agencies can do, and provides a video and sections about Overview, Problem, Infographic, What Can Be Done, and Issue Details. (Video or Multimedia) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Years after he contracted Lyme disease, it's safe to say Sean Gurnsey has a knack for voice acting: his voice is featured across the world in commercial work, video game voicing and more. (Source: CBC | Health)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
(MedPage Today) -- Tick-borne illnesses more than doubled, mainly due to increases in Lyme disease (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Tuesday 1 May 2018
Lyme disease, Zika, and other diseases spread by bug bites tripled in the U.S. from 2004 through 2016, according to a new report (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Cases of Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika numbered more than 27,000 in 2004, and soared to over 96,000 in 2016, according to the CDC report. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
This summer Global Lyme Alliance and Ivy Oaks Analytics implement tick prevention program to more than 100 summer camps (Source: Disabled World)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the West Nile and Zika viruses.A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that illnesses... (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
There are several measures you can take, some of which provide two-for-one protection against the insects. (Source: NYT Health)
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Tuesday 1 May 2018
ATLANTA (CBS) – As the weather warms up and New Englanders prepare to enjoy the outdoors, the Centers for Disease Control is warning that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites are on the rise. The report released by the CDC on Tuesday said there were 96,075 disease cases from the three in 2016. That’s more than triple the number of cases in 2004. (Image credit: CDC) “Zika, West Nile, Lyme, and chikungunya—a growing list of diseases caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, tick, or flea—have confronted the U.S. in recent years, making a lot of people sick,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said in a statement. “And we don’t know what will threaten Americans next.” The CDC said there are likely several reasons behind the uptick. The populations of mosquitoes and t...
Tuesday 1 May 2018
The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in […]Related:Feds crack down on e-liquid packaging that looks like candy, juice boxesCDC director asks that his $375,000 salary be cut after questions raised22 states now affected by dangerous outbreak of E. coli illness from romaine lettuce (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Rates of Lyme, Zika and exotic new diseases are soaring. Federal officials blame hotter weather, jet travel, forested suburbs and slow vaccine development. (Source: NYT Health)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Americans are getting Zika, dengue and Lyme diseases in increasing numbers. Warming weather and a lack of vaccines are among the causes. (Source: NYT Health)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in […]Related:Liquid nicotine for e-cigs looks like kids’ juice boxes and candy, government saysShe modeled in New York and worked for the Navy. At 93, parasites ate her alive at a nursing home.A rare eye cancer showed up in three friends. Doctors want to know if the cases are connected. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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Tuesday 1 May 2018
In the United States, diseases spread by mosquito, flea and tick bites tripled from 2004 to 2016, federal health officials say in a new report. During that time, there were more than 640,000 cases of vector-borne diseases. “People really do need to take this seriously,” says Dr. Lyle Petersen, the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new study—published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—marks the first time the agency has collectively examined the trends for diseases that are spread by pests. The goal, says Petersen, is to gain a better understanding of the growing burden of these illnesses in the U.S.,...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
LYME disease symptoms include a rash, headaches and joint pain. But, adding this cheap spice to your diet could prevent signs of the bacterial infection, that ’s caused by tick bites. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Wondering how to protect yourself outside from ticks this year? Here's what you need to know. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Thursday 19 April 2018
Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines)
Thursday 19 April 2018
Yorkshire ’s Jurassic World, at the Yorkshire Museum, includes a pregnant ichthyosaur, a Mesozoic virtual reality experience, and a dinosaur called AlanIf you say the word Jurassic to people in the UK, the chances are that their first thoughts will be of a certain hugely successful film franchise. Most palaeontologists are fine with this, because it gives us an excuse to wheel out our well-honed “all the things that were wrong about the Jurassic Park film” material. If they mention anything else at all, it is likely to be the Jurassic coast, a fantastic piece of tourism branding which ensures that Dorset seaside towns receive a steady stream of fossil-mad families on holiday every summe r.Other British Jurassic outcrops are available, however. In Scotland there are Jurassic outcrops ...
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Thursday 12 April 2018
NICE has issued new advice to help doctors quickly spot Lyme disease, so they can offer people NHS treatment as soon as possible. (Source: NHS Networks)
Wednesday 11 April 2018
So many ticks are lurking in the brush and woodlands. Here's what they might give you. It's more than Lyme. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Saturday 7 April 2018
BACKGROUND: Depression has been reported in 8-45% of patients with posttreatment Lyme symptoms (PTLS), but little is known about suicidal ideation in these patients. METHOD: Depression and suicidal ideation were assessed using the Beck Depression I... (Source: SafetyLit)
Thursday 5 April 2018
(University of Turku) A new research-based point-of-care test has been developed in Finland for detecting the Lyme neuroborreliosis spread by ticks. The test makes rapid initiation of antibiotic treatment possible for patients with borreliosis, which reduces the post-treatment symptoms related to the disease. At the same time, unnecessary antibiotic treatments can be avoided. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 3 April 2018
This study assessed clinicians'knowledge and practices regarding Lyme disease testing in a high-incidence region. Is more clinician education needed?American Journal of Clinical Pathology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Monday 2 April 2018
(University of Maryland) A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that causes Lyme disease fights innate immune responses, and observed a never-before-seen phenomena demonstrating the bacteria can spring back in the body weeks later. Understanding this bacteria, one of only a few pathogens that can actually persist in the body for long periods of time, has major implications for treatment of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease, an increasingly chronic and prevalent public health issue. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 28 March 2018
BACKGROUND: No study has previously analyzed aggressiveness, homicide, and Lyme disease (LD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective LD chart reviews analyzed aggressiveness, compared 50 homicidal with 50 non-homicidal patients, and analyzed homicide... (Source: SafetyLit)
Thursday 22 March 2018
A study on the relative risk for ehrlichiosis and Lyme disease highlights the need for more public education regarding tick-borne diseases.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Monday 19 March 2018
Discussion It can be difficult to consider what is the problem when a health care provider is presented with a group of seemingly disparate signs and symptoms with a history and time course that do not match classic (or commonly atypical) disease presentations. Common things happen commonly, so when symptoms occur without the usual co-occurring symptoms, unusual symptoms or time courses, it can be challenging. The provider must develop a reasonable differential diagnosis and balance how far to go with the evaluation against how much to monitor the patient for new signs or symptoms which can provide new information. Patient safety and the natural time course of diseases have to be considered. Providers also recognize that well-appearing individuals with acute onset of problems usually have ...
Wednesday 28 February 2018
(University of Nevada, Reno) Monika Gulia-Nuss, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, is working on generating transgenic ticks in her lab, the first of their kind, in order to explore new targets for vector control. Gulia-Nuss' lab works specifically on the deer tick and has received a $407,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to continue studies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
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Sunday 18 February 2018
It was an exercise session in a local park that almost became the mother-of-two Nell McAndrew's undoing – after a tiny tick bite led to her developing potentially life-changing Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 16 February 2018
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease, and seven other tick-borne pathogens. Led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the research team report details on the new test in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 14 February 2018
When Kate Sheridan was 11 years old, a series of complications from Lyme Disease changed her life dramatically. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Wednesday 14 February 2018
In the summer of 2016, Jerome Goddard, a medical entomologist in Mississippi, received an email from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with a desperate ask. The agency was conducting an “urgent” search for insect scientists around the U.S. who could take up to a six-month paid leave from work to help the CDC fight the Zika outbreak in the U.S., and possibly respond to areas with local transmission if needed. “That’s how bad it is—they need to borrow someone,” says Goddard, an extension professor of medical entomology at Mississippi State University. “We can’t find people to investigate an outbreak.” Medical entomology—the study of insects and arthropods that impact human health—has been a shrinking f...
Thursday 8 February 2018
Red rash on your body? While this could be a symptom of Lyme disease, Dr Ranj Singh and Dr Zoe Williams revealed on This Morning it could be an indication of hives, and how to treat it. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Thursday 8 February 2018
Red rash on your body? While this could be a symptom of Lyme disease, Dr Ranj Singh and Dr Zoe Williams revealed on This Morning it could be an indication of hives, and how to treat it. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 8 February 2018
(University of Connecticut) The precise mechanisms of how humans become infected with Lyme disease are still unclear. Researchers from UConn Health are advancing the understanding of how the causative bacterial agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), survives in ticks and mammals. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Wednesday 7 February 2018
LYME disease symptoms include the characteristic rash, a fever, headaches and fatigue.You could treat the bacterial infection naturally by making these diet swaps. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Juliet Rose, from Harrow, can no longer eat solid food because of her Lyme disease. She believes she has harboured the infection, spread by infected ticks, since childhood. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 6 February 2018
LYME DISEASE signs include a stiff neck and a fever - but it could also produce a red rash with a ring around the edge. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Monday 5 February 2018
LYME DISEASE warning: tick season starts in March although you can suffer from bites at any time in the year. One Lyme disease symptom many miss is suffering with a stiff neck. Other signs of the life-altering tick-borne condition revealed here. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 5 February 2018
(University of Utah Health) Scientists at University of Utah Health believe they identified a mechanism that activates T cells, a key component of the immune system, which could explain the elusive link between a tick bite and persistent Lyme arthritis. The results are published online in the February 5th issue of The Journal of Immunology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 1 February 2018
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a study of 61 people treated for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, Johns Hopkins researchers conclude that fatigue, pain, insomnia and depression do indeed persist over long periods of time for some people, despite largely normal physical exams and clinical laboratory testing. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Wednesday 31 January 2018
There is no evidence of central nervous system (CNS) infection in patients with neurobehavioral symptoms of Lyme disease, researchers report.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Wednesday 31 January 2018
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 2018 -- Contrary to what many people believe, the lone star tick does not spread Lyme disease, researchers report. But it can transmit other diseases. The researchers came to that conclusion after reviewing more than 60 studies... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
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Wednesday 31 January 2018
(Entomological Society of America) The bacteria that cause Lyme disease are transmitted to humans primarily by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis). Often presumed guilty by association is the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). However, a new review of three decades' worth of research concludes the latter should be exonerated: While lone star ticks are guilty of transmitting bacteria that cause several human illnesses, the scientific evidence says Lyme disease is not one of them. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 15 January 2018
Zoonosis or zoonotic diseases are conditions that can be passed from animals to humans. These include rabies, malaria, and Lyme disease. Learn more. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Wednesday 13 December 2017
The patients said they wanted better tools for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, but also recognition of Lyme as a chronic condition.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Wednesday 13 December 2017
(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke Health are working to expand the medical toolkit for treating Lyme disease by identifying vulnerable areas of disease-causing bacteria that could lead to innovative therapies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Wednesday 13 December 2017
(Tulane University) Lyme bacteria can survive a 28-day course of antibiotic treatment four months following infection by tick bite, according to a new study using a primate model for the disease. Despite testing negative for Lyme disease, some subjects were infected with Lyme bacteria in heart, brain and other organs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Saturday 9 December 2017
(MedPage Today) -- CDC surveillance report lists top 7 states (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Thursday 7 December 2017
Check out some of the recent highlights from NEJM Group: NEJM: Perspective: Dr. Margot Kushel examines the root cause of a hepatitis A outbreak in... (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Thursday 7 December 2017
(Rutgers University) New diagnostic methods offer a better chance for more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria, the most common tick-borne infection in North America and Europe. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Friday 1 December 2017
The facial paralysis and drooping is caused by nerve inflammation, but the cause of that inflammation “ is a question for the ages ” says one expert. (Source: NYT Health)
Thursday 16 November 2017
An unusual increase in suspected Lyme disease cases in Arkansas underscores the importance of Lyme disease surveillance in this and other states which have been considered low-risk.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Friday 10 November 2017
This report highlights the continuing public health challenge of Lyme disease in states with high incidence and demonstrates its emergence in neighboring states that previously experienced few cases. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Thursday 9 November 2017
Six year old Adam Mitchell contracted Lyme's disease after bitten by a tick which carries infectious bacteria. The disease spread and caused an outbreak of Meningitis which gave Adam brain damage (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 9 November 2017
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Sarah Jackson, 29, from Colchester,, who was struck down when she visited Australia in 2013, said: 'One of the GP's actually compared me to Stephen Hawking.' (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 30 October 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency barred two agency scientists and an EPA contractor from speaking at a conference on the health of Narragansett Bay. Agency spokesperson John Konkus said, "EPA scientists are attending, they simply are not presenting, it is not an EPA conference." One of the scientists was scheduled to deliver the keynote address. The Association of Ecosystem Research Centers held a science briefing for policymakers on Capitol Hill on 24 October 2017. The event highlighted how ecosystem research is helping to combat emerging infectious diseases, such as Ebola and Lyme disease. Copies of the presentations are available online at https://www.aibs.org/rsvp/aerc.html. Members of the Association also received a half-day of communications training from AIBS. &...
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Friday 27 October 2017
Sarah Jackson, 29, from Essex, was struck ill when she visited Australia 4 years ago. She suffers seizures, eye problems, pain, memory loss and fatigue and needs £40,000 for US treatment. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 26 October 2017
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Wednesday 18 October 2017
When the doctor told me I had Lyme disease, I cried — not because I was scared, but because I finally had an answer. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Friday 13 October 2017
Rhiannon Collins, 23, from Erith, south-east London, was bitten by a tick when she was just four years old. For 19 years she suffered joint dislocation, severe muscle pain and crushing fatigue. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 12 October 2017
Risk particularly heightened in the six months following diagnosis (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
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Saturday 7 October 2017
A LYME disease patient has urged the NHS to invest in treatments for the rare condition, after going seven years with the killer disease undiagnosed. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Tuesday 26 September 2017
The UK's medical advisory body has warned that there are high concentrations of ticks infected with Lyme disease in the South of England and the Scottish Highlands. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Scientists in the US have developed a new injection which offers promising hope to sufferers of the tick-borne condition. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 25 September 2017
Scientists in the US have developed a new injection which offers promising hope to sufferers of the tick-borne condition. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 25 September 2017
South England and Scottish Highlands have higher prevalence of infected ticks which cause the disease, says health bodyThe south of England and the Scottish Highlands have been earmarked as high risk areas for Lyme disease.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said some areas appear to havehigher prevalence of infected ticks which cause the disease. But the health body said prevalence data is incomplete as it called for a large study into the condition in the UK.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
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Monday 25 September 2017
Guidelines have been drawn up to provide “clear advice” to support clinicians in diagnosing and treating patients with Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks. (Source: Nursing Times)
Monday 25 September 2017
GPs should consider Lyme disease in patients presenting with flu-like symptoms alongside neck or joint pain, cognitive impairment and paraesthesia, according to NICE draft guidance. (Source: GP Online News)
Monday 25 September 2017
NICE guidance on rare but treatable condition (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Sunday 24 September 2017
SUNDAY, Sept. 24, 2017 -- As tick populations and the threats they pose increase across the United States, people need to know how to deal with them, a skin doctor suggests. Ticks can cause serious illnesses such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Tuesday 19 September 2017
(NEW YORK) — One-time pop-punk princess Avril Lavigne has beaten superstar Beyonce at something, but she may not be totally happy with her victory — she’s been named the most dangerous celebrity on the internet. Cybersecurity firm McAfee said Tuesday that Lavigne, whose last album came out in 2013, was the most likely celebrity to land users on websites that carry viruses or malware. Searches for Lavigne have a 14.5% chance of landing on a web page with the potential for online threats, a number that increases to 22% if users type her name and search for free MP3s. Bruno Mars was second in his debut on the list, followed closely behind by Carly Rae Jepsen. Zayn Malik (No. 4), Celine Dion (No. 5), Calvin Harris (No. 6), Justin Bieber (No. 7), Sean “Diddy” Comb...
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Monday 18 September 2017
The Dutch model, 53, who lives in New York, reveals that her six-year battle with Lyme disease began with a misdiagnosis of ME. Yolanda reveals all in her new book, Believe Me, which is out next month. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Sam, Lotte and Caroline Parenting is a messy adventure – it tests our patience, our will and our energy, but never our concern, love or passion for our children. With three kids under 10, my wife, Caroline, and I have managed broken noses, split lips, cuts and bruises too numerous to count … even Lyme disease, skin disorders, and serious fevers – most seem to come with the territory. But there have been rare moments when one of our kids was sick and we didn’t know what was wrong or how to ease the pain, and in those moments, we felt pretty desperate. One of those times was when our 4-year-old daughter Charlotte or “Lotte” came down with a high fever when she was 10 months old. While this was not a new experience for us, the part that made us nervous was that the fever, despite ...
Saturday 2 September 2017
U.S. health officials warn that cases of the illness are on the rise Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Lyme Disease, Pet Health (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Saturday 2 September 2017
10 hours ago ... Boomers are skipping needed vaccines · Explore the full list of benefits available to you as an AARP Member · Should you record your next ... (Source: AARP.org News)
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Tuesday 29 August 2017
Only four years ago, ex-Army fitness instructor Lorraine Murray, 46, from Montrose, Angus, had completed four Olympic-length triathlons, ran her own businesses and was raising two children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 28 August 2017
A team of researchers has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Sunday 27 August 2017
In 2015, there were more than 700 cases of Lyme disease reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada, up from roughly 130 in 2009. (Source: CBC | Health)
Thursday 24 August 2017
Lyme disease is commonly caused by ticks. Another lesser known risk of tick bites is babesia, a dangerous microparasite that can infect human blood. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Thursday 24 August 2017
Lyme disease is on the rise. How can you prevent it? What are the symptoms, and what should you do if you think you or your pet have it? (Source: FDA Consumer Health Information Updates)
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Thursday 24 August 2017
-- Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium B. burgdorferi, is transmitted by biting deer ticks that are quite small and may be difficult to see. Within 30 days of a deer tick bite, a circular red patch of about five inches'diameter often appears. The... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Wednesday 23 August 2017
The clip shows a doctor removing a tick embedded inside an unnamed patient's eardrum. Ticks can cause Lyme disease, caused Matt, 44, to need heart surgery after suffering complications. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 23 August 2017
The clip shows a doctor removing a tick embedded inside an unnamed patient's eardrum. Ticks can cause Lyme disease, caused Matt, 44, to need heart surgery after suffering complications. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Rugby star Matt Dawson, 44, developed a rash and fever after being bitten by a tick while working out at a park in Chiswick, West London in July 2015. He was eventually diagnosed with Lyme Disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 21 August 2017
INSECT bites are usually harmless but can sometimes require hospital treatment. These include ticks, which left former rugby player Matt Dawson with Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Monday 21 August 2017
A QUESTION of Sport team captain and former England rugby captain Matt Dawson has revealed how he underwent heart surgery after being bitten by a tick. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 18 August 2017
Researchers Developing Test For Lyme Disease (Source: WebMD Health)
Thursday 17 August 2017
Scientists are developing a new way to test early for Lyme disease, using a "signature" of molecules in patients' blood (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Thursday 17 August 2017
Dr. Jennifer Ashton brings all the details on a new study on Lyme disease that is creating a buzz within the medical community. (Source: ABC News: Health)
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Thursday 17 August 2017
Researchers differentiated Lyme disease from similar tick-borne illnesses. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Diagnosing if a tick bite caused Lyme or something else can be difficult but scientists are developing a new way to catch the disease early _ using a "signature" of molecules in patients' blood (Source: ABC News: Health)
Wednesday 16 August 2017
(Colorado State University) A team of researchers led by Colorado State University has identified a way to distinguish Lyme disease from similar conditions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 15 August 2017
Shedding Light on Health : Research Helps People and Pets Tick Talk : Block Tick Bites and Lyme Disease Exercise Brings Bone Benefits that Last Paralyzed Men Regain Movement Mental Health Topics (Source: NIH News in Health)
Thursday 10 August 2017
LYME Disease is a growing problem in the UK. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Thursday 10 August 2017
Lisa Vallo, 49, from Bradford, would fall asleep anywhere and moving left her gasping for breath. She first became 'fluey' after a bite from deer tick brought home by her cat in 2002. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 4 August 2017
The bacterium that causes Lyme disease may have some help from a gene found in the guts of infected ticks. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Friday 4 August 2017
Find out what there is to know about the ED management of patients with Lyme disease.The Journal of Emergency Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 2 August 2017
New data suggests the rise of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases may be tied to a scarcity of traditional mouse predators. (Source: NYT Health)
Wednesday 2 August 2017
An infectious disease specialist at the University of Alberta Hospital says the risk of contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite is overblown. (Source: CBC | Health)
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Thursday 27 July 2017
(FAIR Health) Although Lyme disease historically has been concentrated in the Northeast and upper Midwest, our data suggest that it is spreading. In the United States in 2007 (as shown in the heat map below), claim lines with Lyme disease diagnoses as a percentage of all claim lines with all diagnoses in the state were highest in the Northeast. The states with the highest percentages of such claim lines were (in order from highest to lowest) New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Zooloist Stacey Venzel, 29, from Seattle, suddenly became ill and too weak to lift her arms or stand but vowed to continue her animal sanctuary work after being spurred on by paralyzed sheep Rocky. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 24 July 2017
The disease-carrying blood suckers are spreading more pathogens and putting more Americans at risk, even for more rare illnesses. (Source: NYT Health)
Thursday 20 July 2017
Nearly 16 years ago, a former co-worker of mine at the San Jose Mercury News was found dead in the back of her car. She had been shot in the head by her estranged husband. I remember being confused upon hearing the news and not quite believing what had happened. Luci Houston, who was 43 […]Related:Unapproved stem-cell treatments touted on federal database ClinicalTrials.gov, study says‘How did this happen to a 10-year-old?’: Child dies with heroin and fentanyl in his systemWhy this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme disease (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Stem cell clinics offering unapproved treatments for ailments from hip pains to autism to erectile dysfunction increasingly are using a federal clinical-trials database as a marketing tool — a strategy that confuses patients and exposes them to “unjustifiable” safety risks and high costs, according to a new study. At least 18 purported clinical trials — […]Related:‘How did this happen to a 10-year-old?’: Child dies with heroin and fentanyl in his systemWhy this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme diseaseNew NIH report finds low morale, continued patient safety concerns (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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Wednesday 19 July 2017
A gunshot wound to the face left a teenager with so much damage that for years doctors knew plastic surgery could only help so much to give her back a regular life. In May, the now-21-year-old woman joined the small but growing ranks of face transplant recipients, doctors announced Tuesday. For the woman, now the youngest to receive […]Related:‘How did this happen to a 10-year-old?’: Child dies with heroin and fentanyl in his systemDiet drinks are associated with weight gain, new research suggestsWhy this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme disease (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Tuesday 18 July 2017
A Florida state attorney is voicing alarm after a 10-year-old boy died with a dangerous opioid mixture in his system — making him one of the state's youngest victims in the nationwide drug epidemic. The Miami Herald reported that Alton Banks started vomiting June 23 after he returned to his Miami home from a community pool. Authorities said the boy was later found […]Related:Why this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme diseaseNew NIH report finds low morale, continued patient safety concernsHalf a million Medicare recipients were prescribed too many opioid drugs last year (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Tuesday 18 July 2017
A Florida state attorney is voicing alarm after a 10-year-old boy died last month with a dangerous opioid mixture in his system — making him one of the youngest victims in the state's drug epidemic. The Miami Herald reported that Alton Banks started vomiting June 23 after he returned to his Miami home from a community pool. Authorities said the boy was later […]Related:Why this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme diseaseNew NIH report finds low morale, continued patient safety concernsHalf a million Medicare recipients were prescribed too many opioid drugs last year (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Over the past decade, Americans have soured on artificial sweeteners. Once heralded as sweet substitutes for sugar without as many belt-busting calories, people once couldn't get enough sucralose and aspartame. But recently, people have started looking at the molecules with increasing suspicion, amid founded studies that linked them to increased belly fat — and bogus but widespread […]Related:Why this adorable mouse is to blame for the spread of Lyme diseaseNew NIH report finds low morale, continued patient safety concernsHalf a million Medicare recipients were prescribed too many opioid drugs last year (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Tuesday 18 July 2017
T2 Biosystems Inc. (NSDQ:TTOO) said today it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its T2Bacteria Panel magnetic resonance-based bacterial detector, and said that it has entered the final stages of its FDA pivotal trial as it seeks 510(k) approval from the agency. The T2Bacteria Panel is designed to run on the company’s T2Dx instrument, a miniaturized MR diagnostic device, to provide species-specific test results of targeted bacterial infections in approximately 3.5 hours, the Lexington, Mass.-based company said. The T2Bacteria Panel is designed to identify 6 of the deadliest prevalent bacteria species not covered by empiric therapy. The company said the system can identify approximately 90% of gram-negative infections coming in through ER departments and 70% of community-a...
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Tuesday 18 July 2017
Recognition of the erythema migrans rash and other symptoms can aid prompt identification of Lyme disease. (Source: GP Online Education)
Monday 17 July 2017
The critters run through forest floors throughout the eastern United States, snatching up acorns and other tree seeds, berries and bugs. White-footed mice — known for their wide eyes and ears, long tails and snow-white bellies and the feet from which they get their name — are often overlooked by humans, hiding out by the billions in […]Related:New NIH report finds low morale, continued patient safety concernsHalf a million Medicare recipients were prescribed too many opioid drugs last yearNovel cancer treatment wins endorsement of FDA advisers (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Friday 14 July 2017
Stevia, a common sugar alternative, could be a potential cure for Lyme disease following ongoing clinical trials. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Experts at UMass Medical School in Boston have stopped mice getting the disease. Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing illnesses in the Western World. It could take 2-3 years to be available. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 10 July 2017
PURPOSE: The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between suicide and Lyme and associated diseases (LAD). No journal article has previously performed a comprehensive assessment of this subject. INTRODUCTION: Multiple case reports and... (Source: SafetyLit)
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Monday 10 July 2017
LYME DISEASE is a bacterial infection spread to human when they are bitten by an infected tick. Symptoms of the disease can include one very distinctive rash which patients might not associated with the condition. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Saturday 8 July 2017
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News contributor Dr. Tara Narula join "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss a new type of bacteria that can cause Lyme disease, PSAPs (personal sound amplification products), and the search for tuberculosis treatments in ocean life. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Saturday 8 July 2017
Did Canadians consume more high-fructose corn syrup after the North American free trade deal lowered tariffs on the sweetener? Also two immunotherapy trials for multiple myeloma patients are cancelled and a new pathogen is linked to Lyme disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Saturday 8 July 2017
LYME DISEASE is a bacterial infection spread to human when they are bitten by an infected tick. Symptoms of the disease can include one very distinctive rash which patients might not associated with the condition. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Friday 7 July 2017
Having a pet dog or cat more than doubles the odds that humans will find a tick on themselves, and that could raise the risk of contracting tick-borne diseases like Lyme, researchers say. (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Wednesday 5 July 2017
This article looks at diseases other than Lyme spread by ticks, such as Powassan virus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (Source: WebMD Health)
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Is this a bad year for ticks and Lyme disease? The evidence is patchy and the science complicated (Source: ABC News: Health)
Wednesday 5 July 2017
With a bumper crop of ticks possible this season, experts are tackling the problem across entire neighborhoods with fungal sprays and bait boxes (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Wednesday 5 July 2017
These cases highlight the serious risks of prolonged antibiotic treatment often given for chronic Lyme disease, despite the fact that there is no accepted definition or treatment for this condition.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Researchers in a Lyme disease-plagued part of New York's Hudson Valley are tackling tick problems across entire neighborhoods with fungal sprays and bait boxes (Source: ABC News: Health)
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Wednesday 5 July 2017
(Entomological Society of America) A new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease needs the same amount of time for transmission after a tick bite compared to previously implicated bacteria, according to new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Existing guidelines for frequent tick checks and prompt removal of attached ticks remain the same. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 4 July 2017
This impressive ‘bull’s eye’ rash (pictured) was caused by a tiny tick and is a clear sign of Lyme disease, which is one of the fastest-growing infections in the Western world. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 3 July 2017
Diseases carried by ticks are on the rise and some scientists predict this summer could be the worst tick season in years. More than 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported nationwide each year but studies suggest the actual number is closer to 300,000. Dr. David Agus joins "CBS This Morning" from Los Angeles to discuss what might be the reason for the trend and tips for tick bite prevention. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Monday 3 July 2017
Everybody knows about Lyme. But other tick-borne diseases, including the Powassan virus, can cause lasting damage. (Source: NYT Health)
Friday 30 June 2017
The CDC is telling ABC News that the public should be cautious with false-negative results from Lyme disease tests after getting a tick bite. (Source: ABC News: Health)
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Friday 23 June 2017
(Children's National Health System) Mattia Chason, M.D., and colleagues in infectious disease examined how quickly Lyme disease symptoms typically resolve in children, a research question that has received little prior study. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 22 June 2017
Prolonged antibiotics or other treatments for patients diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease are unproven and can lead to serious complications and death, the CDC warns.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Wednesday 21 June 2017
-- A bite from an infected tick can cause a number of ills, including Lyme disease. But taking precautions before going outside can help protect you. Here are suggestions from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Know where ticks... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Grant applications to advance Lyme and tick-borne disease research now available online.(PRWeb June 21, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/06/prweb14446935.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Natalie Walsh, of West Virginia, shared an alarming post on Facebook recounting how her daughter woke up with a headache,104-degree fever, and a quarter-size bump on her head. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Tuesday 20 June 2017
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Tuesday 20 June 2017
(MedPage Today) -- Also: worldwide obesity prevalence now tops 10% (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Tuesday 20 June 2017
By Megan Molteni for WIRED. First comes the unscratchable itching, and the angry blossoming of hives. Then stomach cramping, and — for the unluckiest few — difficulty breathing, passing out, and even death. In the last decade and a half, thousands of previously protein-loving Americans have developed a dangerous allergy to meat. And they all have one thing in common: the lone star tick. Red meat, you might be surprised to know, isn’t totally sugar-free. It contains a few protein-linked saccharides, including one called galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, for short. More and more people are learning this the hard way, when they suddenly develop a life-threatening allergy to that pesky sugar molecule after a tick bite. Yep, one bite from the lone star tick &mdash...
Saturday 17 June 2017
Actress Carrie Fisher was unabashedly vocal about her lifelong battles with mental illness and drug abuse. She once defiantly told ABC News, “I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I’m still surviving it. But bring it on.” Her candor inspired a generation of women. If a cool and […]Related:Why a single gunshot to Steve Scalise’s hip can be a life-threatening injuryEnvironmental watchdog group warns of lead in baby foodDangerous unproven treatments for ‘chronic Lyme disease’ are on the rise (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Saturday 17 June 2017
Erin Hills ’ s thick fescue presents a challenge to players, but is also a hospitable spot for ticks, prompting concern about Lyme disease. (Source: NYT Health)
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Friday 16 June 2017
The position of the victim, speed of the bullet and path it follows all are critical in how severe injuries will be. Related:Environmental watchdog group warns of lead in baby foodDangerous unproven treatments for ‘chronic Lyme disease’ are on the riseFever during pregnancy may increase autism risk in offspring (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Friday 16 June 2017
By Cara Adler Edited by William E. Chavey, MD, MS Use of unproven treatments for patients given a diagnosis of " chronic Lyme disease " can cause serious adverse events, including death, according to an MMWR … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Thursday 15 June 2017
When parents think about the dangers of lead, paint and water often come to mind as potential sources. But a report published Thursday by the Environmental Defense Fund raises questions about another, surprising possibility: food. More specifically, baby food. The group looked at data from more than 12,200 food samples that were analyzed from 2003 to 2013 as part […]Related:Why a single gunshot to Steve Scalise’s hip could be life-threateningDangerous unproven treatments for ‘chronic Lyme disease’ are on the riseFever during pregnancy may increase autism risk in offspring (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Thursday 15 June 2017
The position of the victim, speed of the bullet and path it follows all are critical in how severe injuries will be. Related:Environmental watchdog group warns of lead in baby foodDangerous unproven treatments for ‘chronic Lyme disease’ are on the riseFever during pregnancy may increase autism risk in offspring (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Thursday 15 June 2017
An increasing number of Americans with medically ambiguous symptoms are being misdiagnosed with “chronic Lyme disease” and prescribed dangerous and often expensive treatments that do not work, according to a new report. In some instances, patients have died after receiving intensive, long-term and inappropriate courses of intravenous antibiotics that led to septic shock. In other […]Related:Fever during pregnancy may increase autism risk in offspringUNC oncologist and researcher named head of the National Cancer InstituteZika risk for birth defects drops for each trimester, CDC finds (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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Thursday 15 June 2017
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Monday 12 June 2017
By Jessica Migala It’s a heartbreaking story: an Indiana girl just shy of her third birthday has died of organ failure caused by Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF). Doctors didn’t realize Kenley Ratliff contracted the tick-borne illness until it was too late for the antibiotics to work. Now, her devastated family, along with health officials, are sounding the alarm about this sometimes lethal infection, which despite its name isn’t limited to the Rocky Mountains. “If we could save one child’s life then we will have done our job,” Jordan Clapp, Kenley’s aunt told Today. RELATED: 15 Important Facts You Must Know About Ticks While you dry your eyes, consider Kenley’s story to be a wakeup call about RMSF, cases of which have been on th...
Saturday 10 June 2017
The CDC is warning of a particularly severe season for tick-borne diseases. The number of cases of Lyme diseases has spiked in recent years, and experts say the ticks that carry it are spreading to other areas of the country. Anna Werner reports. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Friday 9 June 2017
BOSTON (CBS) – Managing a chronic illness can be difficult, especially with many medications, but a company located in Boston has developed an app that could make a world of difference. “I have chronic neurological Lyme disease and co-infections,” says Emily Levy of Charlestown. The 23-year old takes more medications than most 80-year-olds. “On a daily basis, I’m taking anywhere from 20 to 30 pills and then I do anywhere from two to four IV infusions per day,” says Emily. (WBZ-TV) Staying on top of all of her antibiotics, supplements, probiotics, and infusions was a real challenge until she was introduced to Medisafe. “Medisafe gives patients a tool, a medication management tool, to get their medications organized,” says Jon Michaeli, Medisafe Executive Vice Presid...
Thursday 8 June 2017
As it gets warmer and people start spending more time outside, I have more and more patients coming into my office and complaining of a “sun allergy.” A sun allergy is really a layman’s term, which refers to a number of conditions when a rash occurs on skin that has been exposed to the sun. These are also referred to as photosensitive disorders or photodermatoses, and can be broadly categorized into the following medical terms: idiopathic photodermatoses, exogenous photodermatoses, photoexacerbated dermatoses, genetic photodermatoses, and metabolic photodermatoses. Sounds complicated, right? A sun allergy refers to a number of conditions when a rash occurs on skin that has been exposed to the sun. Let’s break it down: If, after spending a few hours in...
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Monday 5 June 2017
Scott J. Mellis, M.D., Ph.D. and Utpal Pal, Ph.D. bring their expertise and experience to GLA’s Scientific Advisory Board whose members have all made valuable contributions to the understanding,...(PRWeb June 05, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/06/prweb14394555.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Thursday 1 June 2017
This study shows strong evidence that Lyme disease-causing bacteria exist transiently in blood,” co-author Dr. Thomas Fritsche said in prepared remarks. “T2MR is the only technology proven sensitive enough to directly detect these bacteria.” Traditionally, researchers use serology to diagnose Lyme disease by detecting antibodies that are triggered by the disease. There is no FDA-approved diagnostic based on direct measurement of Lyme disease-causing bacteria. Regulatory agencies recommend a 2-tiered approach to diagnose Lyme disease, but the technique detects 2 antibodies that require 1-2 weeks and 4-6 weeks to reach detectable levels, leaving a window where diagnosis of early Lyme disease is not possible. T2MR detected both confirmed cases of Lyme disease tested in the s...
Wednesday 31 May 2017
By Anthea Levi Warmer months don’t just bring sunshine — they can also present serious health hazards for our favorite furry friends. “Summer is the busiest time of year in the veterinary ER,” says Justine Lee, DVM, a board-certified veterinary emergency critical care specialist in Minneapolis. “Pet owners are jogging, picnicking, and enjoying the outdoors, and unfortunately we see more animals experience trauma because of it.” Follow this advice so your dog has a safer summer. Nix ticks and fleas Ticks, fleas and mosquitoes are much more common this time of year, and they cause all kinds of illnesses. “At the very least, ticks leave an itchy bite that can become infected, and at worst they can transmit diseases like Lyme,” says Kathryn ...
Tuesday 30 May 2017
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences said Tuesday that Mark Smeltzer has been awarded $11 million in federal funding for Phase II of a program that supports microbiology and immunology research. Phase I of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant was awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2012 at $10 million. Phase II began May 1 and is $11 million. The first COBRE grant allowed Smeltzer to establish the UAMS Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses. Its focus is pathogens – bacteria, viruses and microorganisms – and the disease responses they cause in humans. The latest award continues funding of the center, with individual projects on cancer, Lyme disease, pneumonic plague and chlamydial infection. Smeltzer...
Tuesday 30 May 2017
The federal government is spending $4 million to aid research into Lyme disease. Health Minister Jane Philpott unveiled Canada's plan to establish a Lyme disease research network this morning. (Source: CBC | Health)
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Wednesday 24 May 2017
(MedPage Today) -- Lyme may be an overlooked public health problem (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Friday 19 May 2017
“This year, there are worse ticks than many of us have ever seen in our lives,” says Janet Foley, an epidemiologist at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Ticks are roaming American forests in greater numbers this year than any in recent memory leaving thousands of humans at risk for lyme disease, say public health officials. And things could get much worse through the summer if weather conditions remain humid, spelling trouble for the people who roam in their habitat. The prevalence of ticks—and the diseases they carry—has been on the rise in recent decades as reforestation and climate change expanded the range of the eight-legged bacterial vectors. Public health officials have attributed the pervasiveness of ticks so far this year to ...
Monday 15 May 2017
Dr. Dan Rahn and Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr. of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists. Rahn and Hopkins were two of 53 internists from across the world to receive the honor at the ACP’s annual scientific conference held in San Francisco this year and were the only two Arkansans to achieve Mastership this year. Just more than 0.5 percent of the 148,000 ACP members worldwide have been awarded Mastership of the College. “Mastership is the highest honor the college bestows, and it comes only after a long, arduous process during which they carefully vet the credentials of all nominees and ensure that the recipients deserve it,” Dr. Omar Atiq, a profes...
Sunday 14 May 2017
LYME DISEASE is a bacterial infection spread to human when they are bitten by an infected tick. One woman who is battling the disease has spoken out about the symptoms and coping with the chronic pain it can cause. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Sunday 14 May 2017
LYME DISEASE is a bacterial infection spread to human when they are bitten by an infected tick. One woman who is battling the disease has spoken out about the symptoms and coping with the chronic pain it can cause. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Saturday 13 May 2017
BOSTON (CBS) – Here in New England we are at a higher risk of getting Lyme disease. Despite the danger there is no vaccine. But UMass researchers are closing in on a treatment that could prevent the debilitating illness. It’s an illness Jennifer Crystal knows all too well. It took eight years of feeling rundown with flu-like symptoms before Jennifer was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease. “Basically lost the whole second half of my twenties to Lyme disease,” Jennifer explained. She was bedridden for months at a time, she had to quit her job, and move back in with her parents. “It was hard to get up a flight of stairs, I couldn’t empty the dishwasher, I mean basic tasks,” she said. Even after the official diagnosis and treatment Jennifer relapsed...
Friday 12 May 2017
Only 3 per cent of GPs in the UK have taken the recommended module on Lyme disease which teaches them how to spot early symptoms. A charity says there may be 45,000 UK cases a year. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 11 May 2017
New research offers veterinarians a forecasting map that tells them which parts of the country are most at risk of Lyme disease infections in dogs, which could also help track and predict Lyme disease in people. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Wednesday 10 May 2017
GPs must consider Lyme disease in patients with bull's-eye rash or if they become unwell following a tick bite, campaigners have warned as modelling suggests the disease is set to reach epidemic levels. (Source: GP Online News)
Monday 8 May 2017
(MedPage Today) -- Review finds most Lyme symptoms resolved within 6 months of starting therapy (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Monday 8 May 2017
It's transmitted faster and can be more disabling and deadly than Lyme Disease. How can you prevent and treat it? (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Sunday 7 May 2017
We all know that bee stings are incredibly painful and best avoided. But Ingrid Watt of Scotland subjects herself to 30 every week in a bizarre bid to beat the life-threatening Lyme disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 5 May 2017
Lyme disease isn't the only reason you'll want to take extra precautions to avoid ticks (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Friday 5 May 2017
Lyme disease is increasing in areas around the country, and researchers warn that's not the only tick-borne disease to watch out for. One called Powassan virus is rare but can be deadly. Dave Delozier of WISC-TV reports. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Friday 5 May 2017
Tick season is upon us, and it’s shaping up to be a real doozy. Scientists predict 2017 will bear the highest number of ticks in recent years, with a jump in reported cases of tick-borne illnesses in some regions of the U.S. Ticks are thriving thanks to a recent explosion of the white-footed mice population, which carry Lyme disease, Powassan virus and other tick-borne illnesses. Meanwhile, warmer winters caused by climate change are allowing ticks to remain active longer and carry diseases into new regions of the U.S. Experts suggest people living in regions where these diseases are most prevalent ― the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and upper Midwest ― should learn about common tick misconceptions and best practices to avoid bites. Black-legged ticks are the common carriers...
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Friday 5 May 2017
It's a mysterious and dangerous disease in humans, but did you know it poses a serious threat to pets as well? (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Thursday 4 May 2017
Researchers say they expect it to be a "particularly bad year" for Lyme disease for an unlikely reason (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Emma Horlock, 42, from Liverpool has raised £25,000 to travel to America in the hope antibiotics will cure her from Lyme disease. Says the condition has stopped her having children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Wednesday 3 May 2017
CBS Local – There are a few drawbacks to the calendar shifting to the summer months, like the influx of ticks and infections like Lyme Disease. Now doctors are cautioning of another, potentially fatal tick-borne disease: Powassan Virus. Powassan virus is even more serious than Lyme, as it causes inflammation to the brain. For the reported cases, 15 percent of those infected have died and another 50 percent have had some form of a neurological disability. As of right now, there’s no cure. Symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, weakness, confusion, loss of coordination, speech difficulties and seizures. “About 15 percent of patients who are infected and have symptoms are not going survive,” Dr. Jennifer Lyons, chief of the division of neurological and inflamm...
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Summer is nearly here, and it's bringing fears of a rare tick-borne disease called Powassan. This potentially life-threatening virus is carried and transmitted by three types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
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Tuesday 2 May 2017
For as long as Maeve Sheehy can remember, she’s had short spells of feeling like she was about to fall over. “It wasn’t like feeling faint, it was more like my knees would buckle underneath me,” says Maeve, now 16. “I would instinctually try to keep from falling by bracing myself.” Sometimes the bracing didn’t work and Maeve would topple over. If she was with friends, she’d pretend she had tripped, to cover it up. But she secretly worried something was wrong with her. When she tried to explain the falling feeling to her parents and doctors, she was told she was probably dehydrated. More mysterious symptoms As she entered middle school, Maeve started to have other symptoms. She felt exhausted all the time, despite regular naps. Sometimes, she was so tired in class that she c...
Tuesday 2 May 2017
LYME disease symptoms could be very similar to those of the common flu virus, Dr Chris Steele has warned. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 24 April 2017
Scientists have built a large body of knowledge about Lyme disease over the past 40 years, yet controversies remain and the number of cases continues to rise. In the United States, reported cases of Lyme disease, which is transmitted from wild animals to humans by tick bites, have tripled in the past 20 years. A multitude of interacting factors are driving the increase in Lyme disease cases, but their relative importance remains unclear. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Monday 24 April 2017
Simtee Few, 32, from Harlow, Essex, developed flu-like symptoms days after a family gathering in July 2015. Doctors eventually diagnosed her with Lyme disease after a year of testing. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 24 April 2017
Simtee Few, 32, from Harlow, Essex, developed flu-like symptoms days after a family gathering in July 2015. Doctors eventually diagnosed her with Lyme disease after a year of testing. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Monday 24 April 2017
(University of California - Santa Cruz) Scientists have built a large body of knowledge about Lyme disease over the past 40 years, yet controversies remain and the number of cases continues to rise. In the United States, reported cases of Lyme disease, which is transmitted from wild animals to humans by tick bites, have tripled in the past 20 years. A multitude of interacting factors are driving the increase in Lyme disease cases, but their relative importance remains unclear. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 24 April 2017
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 4/22/17 On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, orthopedic surgeon?Dr. Norman Turner III?discusses treatment for common foot problems and ways to prevent them. Also on the program, parasitologist Dr. Bobbi Pritt has an update on the Lyme disease predictions for 2017. And critical care physician and sleep medicine expert Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler?tries [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Saturday 22 April 2017
When my son Dan was diagnosed with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, his psychiatrist informed me and my husband that Dan was “borderline psychotic.” In other words, our son was out of touch with reality. For most people, psychosis usually presents in one of two ways: Hallucinations – consist of seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not actually there. A common example is hearing voices. Delusions – consist of beliefs that are not likely to be true and that seem irrational or nonsensical to other people. A typical example involves believing that outside forces are controlling your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. At the time we were told of our son’s issues, my thoughts immediately turned to schizophrenia, as that is the illness typically associated with psychosis. A...
Thursday 20 April 2017
Lyme disease is among the most common vector-borne illnesses in North America, Europe, and some parts of Asia. A spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi causes the disease, and blacklegged ticks are responsible for the majority of North American transmissions. In a new paper, researchers present a mathematical model of Lyme disease that incorporates seasonality and climate factors. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Thursday 20 April 2017
Celeste Clancy, 28, from, Georgia, contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick during a trip two years ago. It caused her to suffer from uncontrollable shaking and stroke-like symptoms. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Thursday 20 April 2017
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Lyme disease is among the most common vector-borne illnesses in North America, Europe, and some parts of Asia. A spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi causes the disease, and blacklegged ticks are responsible for the majority of North American transmissions. In a paper publishing next week in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, Xiunan Wang and Xiao-Qiang Zhao present a mathematical model of Lyme disease that incorporates seasonality and climate factors. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 18 April 2017
LYME DISEASE cases are set to soar in the UK - an expert has warned. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread by ticks, but few people know the symptoms of the condition - which (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Monday 17 April 2017
Researchers at Yale University found perceived risk of contracting Lyme disease causes many in the northeast United States to skip going outside. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Monday 17 April 2017
(Yale School of Forestry& Environmental Studies) In a new study, Yale researchers find that perceived risks of contracting Lyme disease on average cause a person in the Northeast to forego eight 73-minute outdoor trips per year -- exacting a total cost roughly $2.8 billion to $5 billion annually in the densely populated region. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Saturday 15 April 2017
LYME DISEASE is a bacteria infection spread to human when they are bitten by an infected tick. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Monday 10 April 2017
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The LMZ at UMass Amherst earned a two-year, renewable contract for up to $112,000 per year to test several thousand ticks for six bacterial and one protozoan pathogen using DNA-based assays. UMass Amherst microbiology professor and LMZ director Stephen Rich says these tests will detect the pathogens that cause Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis, among others. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Friday 7 April 2017
As the spring weather approaches, many common winter infections recede. However, warmer temperatures can introduce a new set of health challenges. As trees and flowers bloom and grass grows, susceptible children will start to display symptoms of seasonal allergies, triggering flares of asthma and eczema. And, As children spend more time outdoors, parents also need to watch for exposure to ticks, poison ivy and excess sun. Here are a few tips to keeping your child healthy this spring. Seasonal allergies: What can you do? During allergy season: have your child bathe after spending time outdoors to remove allergens from the skin and reduce symptoms keep your child with bad allergies indoors on days with high-pollen counts close windows and turn on air conditioning to help remove allerg...
Monday 3 April 2017
Discussion Inflammation of the middle layer of the eye, or uvea, is termed uveitis. Uveitis can be divided into anterior, intermediate or posterior uveitis by involving the anterior (iris and ciliary body), intermediate (vitreous) or posterior (choroid and usually retina) compartments. Panuveitis involves all 3 compartments. Duration can also be used to classify uveitis. Acute is 6 weeks and > 3 months is chronic persistent uveitis. Episodic periods of inactivity and reactivity that last more than 3 months are called recurrent uveitis. A third way to characterize uveitis is if it is granulomatous or not. Uveitis increases with age with the highest incidence and prevalence in > 65 year olds. Only ~10% of uveitis occurs in the pediatric age group. Uveitis can be difficult to identify i...
Monday 27 March 2017
Title: Lyme Disease Quiz: Symptoms& SignsCategory: MedicineNet QuizCreated: 6/15/2010 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/27/2017 1:47:19 PM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Monday 27 March 2017
Title: Lyme Disease Is on the RiseCategory: Doctor's& Expert's views on SymptomsCreated: 4/29/2000 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
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Tuesday 21 March 2017
Global warming already widens the footprint of Lyme disease while Zika virus exacerbates asthma and lung diseases and increases the risks posed by violent weather and wildfires. Now, new research suggests rising temperatures lead to a surge in diagnoses of type-2 diabetes. The study, published Monday in the BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, compared annual average temperatures across the United States from 1996 to 2009 with reported new cases of type-2 diabetes. The disease, which typically develops later in life, prevents the body from absorbing glucose needed to produce energy. In particularly hot years, the number of new diagnoses spiked. “When it gets warmer, there is higher incidence of diabetes,” Lisanne Blauw, the study’s co-author and a PhD candidate at the N...
Friday 17 March 2017
This piece by Michelle Marie Wallace originally appeared on The Establishment, an independent multimedia site founded and run by women. “Maybe I should stop my periods.” It wasn’t something I had ever before considered and I had, in fact, wondered if there could be potential, unknown, long-term ramifications when friends of mine stopped theirs. I had never considered my periods an inconvenience or gross or annoying; in fact, I had liked the rhythm of them. The times I had been on birth control I resented how it made me feel divorced from my body. When I asked this question, I was sitting in my doctor’s office, nine months into antiviral treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, 11 years after starting treatment for Lyme disease. The previous year had be...
Thursday 16 March 2017
Cases of Lyme disease in Michigan have risen dramatically in recent years, and a new study links that trend to larger and more widespread tick populations. Researchers collected data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on 1,057 Lyme disease cases diagnosed between 2000 and 2014, and aligned them with a new analysis of tick distribution across the state. Results showed that not only did the number of yearly infections in the state increase significantly over the 15-year period, but so did the number of counties where ticks had been seen, or found to be established. And the number of infected people may be much higher than the records indicate, the researchers said. Because Lyme disease is frequently misdiagnosed as other illnesses, reported cases likely represent only ...
Wednesday 15 March 2017
For SELF, by Amy Marturana. Regardless of your skin type, chances are you’ve had an itchy, red, bumpy rash at one time or another. It’s like the international sign of skin irritation. If it’s not affecting your daily life or covering whole body, and you’re not feeling sick otherwise, chances are it’s nothing to worry about and will clear up on its own, Rebecca Kazin, M.D., dermatologist and associate director at the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery, tells SELF. Treating it with over-the-counter hydrocortisone itch relief cream until it goes away may be sufficient. “But if it lasts for over two weeks, or goes away and comes back” or if your itch cream is not bringing you relief, it’s a good idea to visit your dermatologist &...
Wednesday 15 March 2017
One morning in July 2011, Samantha Ahdoot’s 9-year-old son, Isaac, grabbed his clarinet, trekked up the hilly road to the bus stop and set off for another day at the band camp near his home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Within an hour, Ahdoot’s phone rang: Isaac had collapsed and was en route to the emergency room on a stretcher. Her otherwise healthy son suffered heat exhaustion and dehydration from the blistering heat of a summer that regularly broke temperature records. July alone shattered two daytime high temperature records in just the D.C. area. Concerned, Ahdoot, a pediatrician, volunteered to be camp physician. As temperatures soared, she was forced to cut soccer games short and limit campers to swimming and indoor activities. “That was the experience ...
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Monday 13 March 2017
The human face of climate change is its impact on our health. Higher temperatures intensify air pollution and respiratory illness. Changing weather patterns lead to drought and then famine, while increasing rains in other areas will create the breeding ground for disease and pandemics. While the policy changes needed to blunt climate change are surely substantial, the cost of ignoring the science behind climate change will be felt through its harmful effects on our health. Recently, the CDC cancelled its Climate and Health Summit out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration. Working with Al Gore and others, Harvard worked to revive the meeting, which was held in Atlanta on February 16. This meeting reminded us that universities have a unique responsibility that we ensure ...
Sunday 12 March 2017
Dr. Conover, a chemist, developed tetracycline, a powerful chemically altered antibiotic with fewer side effects than the drug from which it was derived. (Source: NYT Health)
Sunday 12 March 2017
Researchers are saying this year is shaping up to be another big Lyme disease season in Vermont (Source: ABC News: Health)
Saturday 11 March 2017
The world is seeing more and more new diseases, and the U.S. is no exception. We're living in a hot spot for tick-borne diseases. Some are deadly. The key to stopping them may be an unlikely critter.(Image credit: Kayana Szymczak for NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
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Friday 10 March 2017
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Wednesday 8 March 2017
8 hours ago ... Experts expect an increase in Lyme disease cases due to an influx of infected ticks. Lyme disease, if untreated, can lead to fever and joint pain. (Source: AARP.org News)
Monday 6 March 2017
Ray, from Sussex, has suffered from several serious illnesses including Lyme disease and malaria during his expeditions for programmes such as 'Ray Mears' Bushcraft' and 'World of Survival'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 6 March 2017
One scientist is predicting a risky year for tick-borne Lyme disease in the Northeast, and it's spreading. But don't panic. We've got tips.(Image credit: Stephen Reiss for NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
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Monday 6 March 2017
Lyme disease is spreading, and this summer is shaping up as a whopper. Why has the tick-borne illness gotten so bad? The answer traces back to something the colonists did more than 200 years ago.(Image credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Monday 6 March 2017
Discussion Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a Flavivirae, arbovirus that is endemic to many areas of Asia and the Pacific. It is estimated to affect ~70,000 people/year with ~10-15,000 deaths yearly in 20 countries, with a fatality rate of 35-40%. It can cause encephalitis and irreversible neurological morbidity. JEV is spread by Culex mosquitos which feed on swine. Increased environmental temperature and increased humidity (warm air is more moist) increases mosquito numbers, their survivability and ultimate dissemination. China has the highest rates of JEV with particular areas being more prone, as some areas co-farm rice and swine and the families live closely to the rice paddies and livestock which encourages transmission. JEV’s range has expanded over the past few decades inc...
Monday 6 March 2017
Everyone agrees that ticks are exceedingly nasty creatures. For hundreds of millions of years, they have survived on Earth by sucking blood from their victims for days, often leaving behind terrible diseases as a thank-you note. In humans, these diseases include many unpleasant and dangerous illnesses, such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, babesiosis, Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, and tularemia, to name a few. (Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine News Headlines)
Friday 3 March 2017
Spring is in the air a little earlier this year, but don’t go celebrating just yet. This year’s weather is shattering norms. Washington, D.C., for example, not only had the warmest February on record, but last month’s temps already surpassed the average records for March, too. The situation is similar for a lot of other spots across the country, and that could be bad news when it comes to public health. Experts theorize climate change may be part of the cause of this year’s early spring phenomenon, and warn the overall warming of the planet can have physical and mental health consequences. Below are just a few ways the rising temperatures can take a toll on our wellbeing. An earlier spring could lead to an increase in illness. When the weather is co...
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Untitled by PublicDomainPictures is licensed under CC0. Recently, the Arkansas Department of Health announced it had discovered two diagnosed cases of tickborne diseases, which meet the surveillance definition for Lyme disease–this is the first time the state has had cases that meet this definition in 10 years. Arkansas is generally considered a low-incidence state for Lyme disease, but several other tickborne diseases are more prevalent in the state, including tularemia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Ehrlichia, all of which can be fatal. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted to humans by infected blacklegged ticks. The symptoms are similar to flu and include fever, headache, and fatigue as well as a bullseye rash. If you observe any of these symptoms and have recent...
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Friday 17 February 2017
The Labour candidate for the key Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election believes that his day job with UNISON – “at the coalface of public services” – has had a major impact on his campaign. Gareth Snell (pictured with Labour MPs Angela Rayner, left, and Ruth Smeeth) is in the last stages of a high-profile election fight, in which his chief rival is UKIP leader Paul Nuttall. One of the key differences between the Mr Snell and Mr Nuttall is that only one of them is a local. While the UKIP leader recently moved to the constituency in order to contest it, Mr Snell has lived in the Potteries for the past 13 years. He is a former leader of the nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme council and has worked with UNISON since 2014 – first as an organiser and now as a manager for the West Midlands regio...
Tuesday 14 February 2017
For hundreds of millions of years, ticks have survived on Earth by sucking blood from their victims for days, often leaving behind terrible diseases as a thank-you note. But no one has ever looked at why ticks, themselves, are able to survive while harboring bacteria, viruses and parasites. Now, for the first time, scientists have decoded how the ingenious tick immune system fights a myriad of microbes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Tuesday 14 February 2017
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) For hundreds of millions of years, ticks have survived on Earth by sucking blood from their victims for days, often leaving behind terrible diseases as a thank-you note. But no one has ever looked at why ticks, themselves, are able to survive while harboring bacteria, viruses and parasites. Now, for the first time, scientists have decoded how the ingenious tick immune system fights a myriad of microbes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Thursday 2 February 2017
George Mason University spinoff Ceres Nanosciences Inc. has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The round, announced Thursday, was led by Concord, Massachusetts-based GreyBird Ventures, an early stage venture firm that committed up to $5.5. million over the next year to Ceres. The firm is also working to help raise up to $9 million to complete the Series A round, which will be used to accele rate the market release of a highly sensitive diagnostic test for Lyme disease. The Manassas company has… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Thursday 2 February 2017
(University of Texas at San Antonio) Janakiram Seshu, associate professor of biology and associate dean of The Graduate School at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $404,250 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to support his research to better understand and prevent the spread of Lyme disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Wednesday 25 January 2017
No abstract available (Source: Lippincott's Bone and Joint Newsletter)
Tuesday 24 January 2017
(TellMed Strategies) Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national organization funding research to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure, announces the launch of the Lyme Disease Biobank, which is the first program to provide researchers with blood and urine samples from people with acute Lyme disease from multiple regions across the country, including the East Coast, West Coast and Upper Midwest. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 23 January 2017
Discussion Fatigue is a subjective feeling of decreased energy, tiredness or feeling of exhaustion. Lethargy is often used synonymously, but lethargy is a state of being drowsiness or sleepy, and implies mental status changes. Both can cause the person to be apathetic or less active. Fatigue is a common state that almost everyone experiences multiple times in his or her lifetime. For most people it is a relatively acute or short-term chronic problem, often with a relatively easily identifiable problem cause, such as inadequate sleep, acute illness, or overexertion. For some, it can be less readily identifiable such as depression, anemia, or hypothyroidism or because of a chronic illness with its waxing and waning natural history or being under- or over-treated. Chronic fatigue and cause d...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
U.S. National Park Service and CDC advise using insect repellents on clothes and skin (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Tuesday 17 January 2017
HealthDay News Planning a hiking trip in an eastern U.S. national park? Better pack tick repellent -- a new study found these parks are home to ticks that carry Lyme disease. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
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Tuesday 17 January 2017
U.S. National Park Service and CDC advise using insect repellents on clothes and skin (Source: WebMD Health)
Tuesday 17 January 2017
U.S. National Park Service and CDC advise using insect repellents on clothes and skin Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Lyme Disease, Tick Bites (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Tuesday 17 January 2017
Dr Paul Auwaerter discusses a scientist's proposal to rid areas prone to Lyme disease by making the mice immune to infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, thus breaking the transmission cycle.Medscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Tuesday 17 January 2017
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2017 -- Planning a hiking trip in an eastern U.S. national park? Better pack tick repellent -- a new study found these parks are home to ticks that carry Lyme disease. Blacklegged ticks -- also known as deer ticks -- carrying Lyme... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Friday 13 January 2017
(Reuters Health) – It may one day be possible to spot illness the same way many of us already track our exercise habits and sleep patterns: with wearable sensors, researchers say. In a new study, 60 people wore devices that collected more than 250,000 measurements a day on things like heart rate, oxygen in the blood, activity levels, calories expended, sleep patterns and skin temperature. After researchers got a baseline idea of normal readings for each person in the study, they looked for deviations from these typical patterns to see whether changes might be tied to new environmental conditions, illness, or other factors that can impact health. The goal is a health dashboard that does for people what dashboards already do for cars, said senior study author Dr. Michael Snyder, direct...
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Thursday 12 January 2017
Can your smart watch detect when you are becoming sick? A new study indicates that this is possible. By following 60 people through their everyday lives, researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex conditions like Lyme disease and diabetes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Thursday 12 January 2017
When it's hot and not too muggy, Lyme disease-bearing black-legged ticks avoid desiccation by hiding out where people don't tread. Scientists say that's why the illness is rare in the South, and may eventually fade out along the Mason-Dixon line. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Thursday 12 January 2017
(PLOS) Can your smart watch detect when you are becoming sick? A new study from Stanford, publishing Jan. 12, 2017, in PLOS Biology, indicates that this is possible. By following 60 people through their everyday lives, Stanford researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex conditions like Lyme disease and diabetes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Wednesday 11 January 2017
(US Geological Survey) When it's hot and not too muggy, Lyme disease-bearing black-legged ticks avoid desiccation by hiding out where people don't tread. Scientists say that's why the illness is rare in the South, and may eventually fade out along the Mason-Dixon line. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Tuesday 3 January 2017
Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Tuesday 3 January 2017
(Entomological Society of America) Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Tuesday 20 December 2016
An antibiotic gel based on azithromycin, an antibiotic with antibacterial properties, helps to prevent the onset of Lyme borreliosis following a tick bite, finds new research. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Saturday 17 December 2016
Henry Heimlich, the medical maverick who came up with a maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims but who damaged his standing as a proponent of the curative powers of malaria, died on Saturday at the age of 96. Heimlich, a doctor who developed a life-saving technique to dislodge airway blockages, died at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati of complications from a massive heart attack he suffered on Monday, his family said in a statement. A thoracic surgeon who often feuded with the established medical community, Heimlich said the maneuver which was named after him saved more than 100,000 lives. He claimed to have used it himself last May on another resident of the Cincinnati retirement home where he lived. “It made me appreciate how wonderful it has been to be able to sav...
Friday 2 December 2016
At the age of 19, Rachel Battersby (pictured) from the Gold Coast was a bright, fun-loving and healthy young woman, but today the girl who had the world at her feet now has her life in tatters. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 24 November 2016
University of Sydney has discovered 1500 viruses in common insects, spiders, worms. New technology can also answer questions about the controversial Lyme disease. Surprising results released Thursday. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Tuesday 15 November 2016
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue Whether it came on suddenly when you were playing tennis or more gradually over many years, knee pain can keep you from doing even the most basic of activities. At the very least, it can limit your ability to move as easily or quickly, or sit in one place for an extended time. Arthritis is the most common cause of knee pain for older adults, said Dr. Julie Switzer, an orthopedic surgeon at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. Arthritis comes in three main forms, she said: osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis and post-traumatic arthritis. We’ll examine these types, as well as other causes of knee pain, below. The others include Lyme arthritis, torn cartilage or ligament, tendinitis, bursitis, gout and spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee. Then, we&...
Monday 14 November 2016
Howard England from Essex consults our expert about his daughters fatigue, which may be connected to a tick bite she got in 2005. She was told the disease can only be treated in Germany. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Friday 4 November 2016
People react very differently to an infection with the Borrelia bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Researchers have investigated this varying response, concluding that age, genetic disposition and previous Lyme infections play an important role. However, despite the large differences observed, the Borrelia bacterium has a clear effect on the immune system ’s energy regulation, opening up opportunities for research into better detection of Borrelia infections. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Wednesday 2 November 2016
Queensland woman Emily Muldoon, 27, has opened up about her long undiagnosed battle with Lyme disease after she endured excruciating pain for a decade. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Monday 31 October 2016
If you're one of the more than 20 million Americans who suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), your doctor has probably told you there isn't much they can do for you. Mainstream medicine doesn't have a cure for CKD. What they do have is a lot of drugs to treat the symptoms of it. And most of the drugs will leave you worse off than before you started taking them… Like ESAs, which are prescribed to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney disease. These dangerous drugs can cause strokes, heart attacks, blood clots and seizures. And if your kidneys fail, your only options are dialysis or a kidney transplant. It's enough to leave you feeling hopeless… But I'm here to tell you there IS hope. It's called intravenous laser blood therapy, or IV laser treatment. ...
Monday 26 September 2016
(MedPage Today) -- Persistent joint symptoms may represent a new-onset autoimmune disease (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Friday 23 September 2016
Today, 1989 may be most associated with Taylor Swift: It is the album that won her a second Grammy for Album of the Year. Not only that, it happens to be the year Swift was born--such a long, long time ago! People under 35 have no personal memory of 1980s pop culture, which is ironic since Swift's album in part pays homage to it. In the real 1989 (no offense to Swift and the 10 co-producers who made the album), all sorts of revolutions took place: Mr. Gorbachev tore down that pesky wall, for example. America's greatest antagonist, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1989. Brazil conducted its first democratic presidential election since 1960. And so on. Today, it's hard to say whether America's greatest existential threat may be Vladimir Putin or his Number-One American Fan, Donald Trump...
Thursday 22 September 2016
Canon U.S.A. (NYSE:CAJ) said today it made a $40 million dollar equity investment into diagnostic developer T2 Biosystems Inc. (NSDQ:TTOO), giving Canon a 19.9% stake. Canon said it purchased approximately $40 million of T2’s stock at $6.56 per share through a private placement. The investment isn’t the 1st pairing for Canon and T2, as both companies have been collaborating to develop a diagnostic test panel for rapidly detecting Lyme disease since February 2015. “We recognize that both T2 Biosystems and Canon U.S.A. are aligned in working towards the same goal and as such, we are pleased to strengthen our relationship and look forward to bringing future innovative diagnostic products to market that can improve patient health. Investments to companies like T2 is anot...
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Thursday 15 September 2016
DR SARA KAYAT has given a second opinion to a caller concerned she could be suffering with Lyme disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Wednesday 14 September 2016
Hey, Sugar, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association dropped an alleged bombshell when it disclosed that the sugar industry lobby influenced research on coronary heart disease by effectively bribing Harvard researchers to promote the theory that dietary fat, and not sugar, causes heart disease. The story is trending on Facebook at this very moment, and the JAMA Facebook post states that "Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies, and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development." All of this is well and good (actually, no, not really), but I've got to ask you--are you really s...
Friday 9 September 2016
This morning, I awoke to find that I had been copied on dozens of Twitter message exchanges among several people who were discussing the pathology of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, among human beings and mice. My first thought was "Seriously?! It's too early for this!" My second thought was "well, David, your Twitter sure has evolved from your pre-Lyme days when you used it mostly to promote vapid celebrity interviews." As I began my morning caffeine ritual and read through each of the messages, I gained a new appreciation for some of the real complexities of "invisible" illnesses. If you are connected with anyone on social media who lives with a chronic ailment, you've probably seen memes such as the ones peppered throughout this post. People who suf...
Thursday 8 September 2016
With more than 300,000 new infections of Lyme disease each year, a vaccine is warranted, argues researcher. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Researchers have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease-associated facial paralysis had worse long-term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone. Based on these findings the researchers urge caution in prescribing corticosteroids to patients with acute Lyme disease-associated facial paralysis. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Tuesday 6 September 2016
The following Q&A is a continuation of an interview with Tara Moriarty, proprietor of the Moriarty Lab, an infectious diseases research lab that studies primarily Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Moriarty is the principal investigator of a new academic paper from the University of Toronto that details the mechanism by which Bb "crawl" through the body -- a scholarly article that turned out to be unexpectedly popular. Tara Moriarty (Photo by Jeff Comber) How do you think your findings about the biomechanics of Lyme disease bacteria may affect treatment of the disease? Your research shows that Bb uses specialized adhesive bonds to "crawl" along the insides of blood vessels. Tara Moriarty: Absolutely, targeting this adhesion mechanism could be very i...
Tuesday 6 September 2016
(Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease-associated facial paralysis had worse long-term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone. Based on these findings, which were published online today in Laryngoscope, the researchers urge caution in prescribing corticosteroids to patients with acute Lyme disease-associated facial paralysis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Friday 2 September 2016
"Who knew there would be so much interest in a biomechanics paper??!!" Those are the words--and the multiple exclamation points--of Tara Moriarty, proprietor of the Moriarty Lab, an infectious diseases research lab that studies primarily Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Moriarty is the principal investigator of a new academic paper from the University of Toronto that details the mechanism by which Bb "crawl" through the body. Scientific American is among the many mainstream outlets that discussed the findings, which may represent a major step in making the ever-gray world of Lyme disease science more black and white. Understanding the movement of an infectious disease agent may seem unnecessarily technical to many people, but Lyme disease patients a...
Thursday 1 September 2016
The Question: When does a bug bite require serious medical attention? The Answer: Sometimes that pesky mosquito bite just needs a little hydrocortisone cream and time to heal. But occasionally, it’s not so simple. While most bug bites and stings are harmless, some can be dangerous if not treated properly — especially if you have an undiagnosed allergy to a particular bug venom or if that bug is a disease carrier. The summer months seem to be stocked with extra critters crawling and buzzing around us, upping the chances that you, a friend or a family member might need a dermatologist’s expertise. Here’s how the experts determine the difference between a nuisance and a health concern that requires attention. One of the first steps to differentiating between a ...
Thursday 25 August 2016
Researchers have developed a live-cell-imaging-based system that provides insights into how Lyme disease bacteria latch onto and move along the inside surface of blood vessels to reach key destinations in the body where they may be able to persist longer and avoid treatment. Ironically, the same strategies that these bacteria use to spread through the body are also used by immune cells to protect against infectious disease. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Thursday 25 August 2016
Among bacteria, the spirochetes are characterized by their spiral shape and remarkable length — as much 50 times longer than most other bacteria. This can make cell elongation and division a laborious process. One of those spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme Disease, has evolved an unusual way of doing this process: Borrelia cells mark the location where their daughters wi ll divide before dividing themselves. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Thursday 25 August 2016
(Cell Press) Researchers have developed a live-cell-imaging-based system that provides insights into how Lyme disease bacteria latch onto and move along the inside surface of blood vessels to reach key destinations in the body where they may be able to persist longer and avoid treatment. Ironically, the same strategies that these bacteria use to spread through the body are also used by immune cells to protect against infectious disease. The study appears Aug. 25 in Cell Reports. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Wednesday 24 August 2016
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The drought conditions that have gripped much of the Northeastern U.S. this summer appear to have a silver lining — fewer ticks. From Maine to Rhode Island, researchers say they expect tick numbers to be down from previous years especially for the blacklegged ticks, known as deer ticks, which transmit Lyme disease. It’s too early to say, however, whether fewer ticks could mean a decline in Lyme disease cases. About 30,000 confirmed cases are reported each year across the country and those numbers have steadily risen. Scientists and state health agencies say they won’t be able to provide an accurate assessment until later this year. “I’m confident that ticks took it on the chin this summer,” said University of Rhode Island’s Thoma...
Tuesday 23 August 2016
Mepron, a thick liquid antimicrobial drug used to treat Babesia and malaria, as well as a fungal infection called Pneumocystitis carinii. In 2011, the United Kingdom stopped requiring that dogs brought into the country be inspected for ticks. Earlier this year, several dogs tested positive for babesia, a malaria-like disease transmitted to ticks that previously had only been found in foreign. These dogs had never left the U.K. While babesiosis is a new worry to U.K. dog owners, it's been a threat to human beings for years -- it just hasn't become a health-scare-of-the-week like Zika, West Nile, avian and swine flu. Most people have never heard of it. Babesia microti, the protozoan that causes babesiosis, occurs throughout continental Europe and Asia, as well as throughout New England a...
Saturday 20 August 2016
Infections have surged, and an out-of-whack ecosystem may be to blame. (Source: NYT Health)
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Tuesday 16 August 2016
This study evaluated antibiotic vs placebo. The study was terminated early due to the determined likelihood that a beneficial effect would not be found. When this was critically analyzed with biostatistical methods, an article was published which I believe demonstrates that Klempner's study was so poorly designed and analyzed that in order for a treatment effect to have been observed, the antibiotic treated patients would have had to improve to a level of health which was a full standard deviation better than the average health of the general population. It's a reasonable hope for antibiotics to return a patient to a somewhat normal life; it's not a reasonable hope that they would improve that patient's health status to better than average. The second study was by Krupp. It showed a reduc...
Tuesday 2 August 2016
It was a story with a bit of irony, as well as ominous health warnings. Crystal Hefner, the 30-year-old wife of Playboy magazine mogul Hugh Hefner, announced in a story in People magazine last month that she'd had her breast implants removed because they were making her sick. Hefner posted a photo of her post-surgery self on Instagram with the caption, "Using 2016 to reclaim my health and embrace and love myself for the real me." The former model, now a DJ, was diagnosed a few months back with Lyme disease. Her symptoms included intolerance to foods and beverages as well as back, neck, and shoulder pain. Hefner also suffered from cognitive dysfunction (brain fog, memory loss), stunted hair growth, fatigue, burning bladder pain, low immunity, and recurring infections and problems with h...
Friday 29 July 2016
The C6 Lyme enzyme immunoassay is an effective diagnostic tool for children who are being tested for Lyme disease, according to Susan C. Lipsett, MD, and her associates. Of the 944 samples collected... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Friday 22 July 2016
Growing up a musically-obsessed child in the 80's, Daryl Hall was one of my biggest inspirations. A masterful, inventive songwriter with an ocean of soul, he set me on the path to being an artist, to never waste a word, and to sing because I mean it. With six number ones and five additional top ten hits throughout the 70's and 80's Daryl Hall and John Oates are the number one duo in music history. Still at the top of his game at 69 years old, Daryl has won legions of new fans with his hit MTV Live show Live From Daryl's House. In February of 2015, at my very sickest from chronic Lyme and Bartonella, after it was missed by eleven NYC doctors, I was homebound and in heart failure. On one of those terrifying, bleary days I caught the last half of a Dan Rather interview with Daryl. Near the...
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Friday 22 July 2016
Undetected cases of Lyme disease can leave patients with a mysterious and debilitating array of symptoms years later
Thursday 21 July 2016
The last decades the disease Lyme borreliosis that is spread by ticks has been increasing, but this increase cannot be explained by the increasing deer population only, say researchers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Wednesday 20 July 2016
The actor/songwriter struggled with memory issues thought to be dementia, but it turned out to be caused by tick-borne illness (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Scientists have tested all sorts of strategies to keep Lyme disease ticks from biting us. One is to make it less likely you'll cross paths with the critters in your yard. Sawdust mulch, anyone? (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Learn about the transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease and its complications in this overview. U.S. Pharmacist (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
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Wednesday 20 July 2016
Decades of scientific literature on the effectiveness of various methods of preventing bites and controlling ticks that transmit Lyme disease has been reviewed by a research team, and outlined in a new report. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Learn about the transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease and its complications in this overview. U.S. Pharmacist (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Wednesday 20 July 2016
(Entomological Society of America) Dr. Lars Eisen and Marc Dolan of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reviewed decades of scientific literature on the effectiveness of various methods of preventing bites and controlling ticks that transmit Lyme disease. Their findings are published in the Journal of Medical Entomology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Monday 18 July 2016
T2 Biosystems (NSDQ:TTOO) said today that it inked a deal with Bayer (ETR:BAYN) for research on blood coagulation disorders. The deal calls for T2 to provide its T2MR magnetic resonance-based diagnostic device to Bayer for a research program for drug and biomarker discovery in hemostasis. “We are very enthusiastic about our collaboration with Bayer and the important validation it represents for our T2MR technology in the field of hemostasis,” T2 CEO John McDonough said in prepared remarks. “Together with Bayer, we look forward to continuing the exploration of the clinical potential of our platform to provide improved patient care in this area of significant unmet need.” The companies have been working together for the last year and recently extended the collabo...
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Late last month, FOX5NY broadcast "Lyme and Reason," a precedent-setting news special dedicated to the Lyme disease epidemic. The show was a success by many measures, including--most importantly by TV production standards--ratings wise. The strong viewership reflects a strong interest in learning more about Lyme disease. More and more, people are discovering that they know someone whose life has been profoundly affected by Lyme. More and more, people are discovering that they themselves have been living with undiagnosed Lyme for years. Now the FOX5NY team is calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention to answer questions following up on a conversation between FOX5NY anchor Teresa Priolo and CDC Chief of Epidemiology and Surveillance Activity of The Bacterial Diseases Br...
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Monday 11 July 2016
The chief medical officer of Canada's Public Health Agency says cases of Lyme disease could be much higher than reported. @NightshiftMD talks about the symptoms of Lyme and what could be causing the increase in infections. (Source: CBC | Health)
Monday 11 July 2016
It’s the height of summer — and if you’ve been spending more time outdoors lately, chances are you’ve got a few (or more) bug bites to show for your time in the sun. And while bites from pests are an inevitable part of summer, it’s important to reduce your risk of bug bites from mosquitoes and ticks. That’s because several species of these insects can carry dangerous disease, including Lyme disease and West Nile virus. “The most effective way to avoid West Nile virus disease is to prevent mosquito bites,” wrote the CDC in their summer health guidelines. “Repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and some oil of lemon eucalyptus and para-menthane-diol products provide longer-lasting protection.” The consumer advocacy org...
Sunday 10 July 2016
LIFE and business coach Janice Haddon describes how a debilitating disease has turned her life upside down. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Thursday 30 June 2016
A new microscopy technique (LM-method) developed to detect Lyme disease is unable to distinguish infected patients from healthy controls, yielding false-positive results that could lead doctors to over-diagnose a patient, according to new research. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Wednesday 29 June 2016
The most common tick-borne sickness in the U.S. is Lyme disease, but there are other lesser-known illnesses that also can be transmitted by a tick bite. And, although they are sometimes overlooked, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says these tick-borne diseases pose an increasing threat to public health. That's why researchers routinely head into the woods to learn more about ticks. Knowing [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
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Friday 24 June 2016
Nancy Shadick, MD, MPH, director of the Lyme Disease Prevention Center in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, recently received an Award of Recognition in the area of Lyme disease prevention and education at MIT’s Lyme Innovation Ha (Source: BWH News)
Tuesday 21 June 2016
1. Are you sure your patient has Lyme disease? What are the typical findings for this disease? The most common manifestation is the rash, termed erythema migrans (early localized Lyme... (Source: Pediatric News)
Friday 17 June 2016
By the Editors Here's the most clicked-on item we featured from NEJM Group … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Thursday 16 June 2016
UPMC will cut the ribbon Thursday on its $3 million Center for Care of Infectious Diseases, which houses several existing services in a shared, renovated space. The center includes 12 exam rooms and the tools to evaluate patients with potentially contagious airborne diseases. Health care specialists will work with patients on a range of infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS, bloodstream infections, Lyme disease and even Zika, according to a representative for UPMC. UPMC invested $4.1 million… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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Sunday 12 June 2016
By the Editors Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH Here's what's happening on the NEJM Journal Watch blogs right now: Clinical Conversations: What's wrong with … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Tuesday 7 June 2016
Residents there heard a proposal Monday from a M.I.T. scientist to use genetically engineered mice to stop the spread of the tick-borne disease. (Source: NYT Health)
Monday 6 June 2016
A novel combination therapy cures an emerging infectious disease, babesiosis, which is transmitted by the same ticks that transmit the agents of Lyme disease, report researchers. This 'radical' therapy not only clears the infection but also prevents the recurrence that often occurs with existing treatments. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Friday 3 June 2016
The Institute for Systems Biology’s Lyme disease project has received $3 million to continue its work on the chronic disease. On top of the funding received when the project was initiated last year, ISB now has a total of $6.1 million from Jeff and Liesl Wilke, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, the Bay Area Lyme Foundation and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria transmitted to humans through a tick bite and is often misdiagnosed because people don’t know they… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Thursday 2 June 2016
What is wrong with a lively 67-year-old gardener who develops a daily fever and shaking chills along with chest pain and a dry cough? (Source: NYT)
Wednesday 1 June 2016
(Institute for Systems Biology) The Institute for Systems Biology has received a transformational, multi-year pledge from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to support the Wilke Cohen Lyme Disease Project. In addition to an initial $3.1 million in funding from Jeff and Liesl Wilke, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the commitments total $6.1 million in pledges and cash. ISB researchers have discovered potential biomarkers, including a set of proteins in the blood known to be important for bone marrow regeneration and stability. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Monday 30 May 2016
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Saturday 28 May 2016
(MedPage Today) -- Symptoms started 10 months after joint arthroplasty (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
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Friday 27 May 2016
Ecosystem tipping points and climate change warning signs are making headlines. Yesterday I read record breaking heat is melting roads in some of India's busiest cities. Scientists predicted a rise in temperature would lead to an increase in the number of insects worldwide, ushering dire consequences to the farming community. Warnings unheeded to our own detriment as now one of Africa's staple crops, cassava, is reeling from super bug infestation. In short climate change has already altered earth's ecological footprint with unstable fluctuating seasons. A longer season means insects have a higher metabolic rate, quicker gestation and more frequent reproduction. According to an EPA report titled Lyme Disease - Climate Change Indicators In the US stated "Between 1991 and 2013 lyme dise...
Friday 27 May 2016
“You would think it would be things like wildlife, raging rivers and stuff like that,” an official says. But you should worry about little things like ticks. (Source: NYT Health)
Thursday 26 May 2016
Researchers were fishing for a new weapon against antibiotic resistance and found one floating in a Connecticut pond. A virus called a bacteriophage, found in Dodge Pond in East Lyme, attacks a common multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can lethally infect people with compromised immune systems. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Tuesday 24 May 2016
New Hampshire continues to have one of the highest rates of Lyme disease in the nation. The state's Division of Public Health Services provides advice on diagnosis and treatment. State Health Alerts (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
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Monday 23 May 2016
Don't become the next meal for a disease-carrying parasite Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Lyme Disease, Tick Bites (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Saturday 21 May 2016
Graduate student Temple Douglas was just a high school intern when she began work on an experimental test that could be a "game-changer" (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Saturday 21 May 2016
The young scientist who helped develop the test came up with the idea during her high school internship at a university lab (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Thursday 19 May 2016
After three years and 300 patients, researchers have proof that their early-detection urine test for Lyme disease works. In the case of Lyme disease, some patients may still have active cases but traditional tests don't register it, and these patients may not be receiving the additional round of treatment they need, authors say. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Wednesday 18 May 2016
This randomised trial has been highlighted by DynaMed as a practice changing update. It concludes that longer-term antibiotics for patients with persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme disease may not improve quality of life. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
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Wednesday 18 May 2016
(George Mason University) After three years and 300 patients, George Mason University researchers have proof that their early-detection urine test for Lyme disease works. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Tuesday 17 May 2016
It's believed Canada has seen more confirmed cases of Lyme disease because of a combination of greater awareness, increased reporting and climate change. (Source: CBC | Health)
Tuesday 17 May 2016
An increase in Lyme disease cases is a concern for Canada's chief public health officer. (Source: CBC | Health)
Sunday 15 May 2016
Canadians living with Lyme disease say they hope a national conference in Ottawa helps fix the many issues they see with the way Canada diagnoses and treats the disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Saturday 14 May 2016
A group of Manitobans has challenged Canada's prime minister to post a video of himself sucking on a lime — all in the name of charity. (Source: CBC | Health)
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Thursday 12 May 2016
Septic or infectious arthritis of the knee and Lyme disease have similar symptoms in children but require different immediate treatment to ensure optimal recovery. A new study identifies four symptoms that are predictive of septic arthritis when the condition presents itself in a child's knee -- an important distinction in areas where Lyme disease is prevalent. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Medication that is normally used to lower cholesterol could stop the spread of Lyme disease, according to a new study. Statins can reduce the burden in mice and can therefore be exploited to reduce the number of Lyme disease bacteria acquired by the feeding ticks. These investigators believe that this could be one of the many strategies to lower the incidence of Lyme disease by restricting bacterial survival at its source. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Tuesday 10 May 2016
(University of Texas at San Antonio) Medication that is normally used to lower cholesterol could stop the spread of Lyme disease, according to a new study co-authored by Janakiram Seshu, associate professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Monday 9 May 2016
Spring has arrived, which means fun in the sun, but it also brings seasonal health concerns for kids. Do you have questions about allergies, ticks and Lyme disease, sun protection or other springtime health concerns? Click on the images below for handy tips to keep your family safe and healthy this spring. var metaslider_29947 = function($) { $('#metaslider_29947').nivoSlider({ boxCols:7, boxRows:5, pauseTime:4000, effect:"fade", controlNav:true, directionNav:true, pauseOnHover:true, animSpeed:600, prevText:"<", nextText:">", slices:15, manualAdvance:false }); }; var ti...
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Sunday 8 May 2016
THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES Hand-washing: Do's and don'ts Done properly, hand-washing is a simple way to avoid getting sick. Find out when to wash and whether hand sanitizers can work in a pinch. Lyme disease Grassy and heavily wooded areas can be home to ticks, which can carry Lyme disease. Get tips on how to [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Friday 6 May 2016
Although I have a background in writing about health and mental illness, I had never done so from a personal point of view until last fall when I began to discuss Lyme disease here. Within hours of the first article's publication, I had received a dozen emails, tweets and Facebook messages from Lyme patients, researchers, advocates and others. Within a couple of days, at least a hundred people had contacted me. I never expected such a reaction--but the reason I decided to write about Lyme is that when I was in diagnostic hell, I had no idea where to look for information, or even what to look for. (Yes, I ended a sentence with a preposition. Birthday privilege.) Today is my 38th birthday. While I've felt since about age 21 that birthdays aren't such a big deal for adults, I am celebrating...
Thursday 5 May 2016
Ben Baddeley, 11, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, has learned to walk for the first time thanks to £2,000-a-month physiotherapy. He is begging David Cameron for NHS funding for the treatment. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 5 May 2016
Ben Baddeley, 11, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, has learned to walk for the first time thanks to £2,000-a-month physiotherapy. He is begging David Cameron for NHS funding for the treatment. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Thursday 28 April 2016
Dr Hany Elsheikha, associate professor of parasitology at the University of Nottingham, says Lyme disease is one of the fastest-growing diseases in the Western world. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Monday 25 April 2016
As part of the EU "ID Lyme" project, an infection immunology team is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borreliosis). This will improve the ability to detect an active infection more easily than before so that healthy people with Lyme disease antibodies in their blood do not receive unnecessary antibiotic treatment and so that appropriate treatments can be initiated at an early stage. The antibody tests that are currently available only provide a reliable result 3 – 4 weeks after infection has occurred. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Monday 25 April 2016
(Bentham Science Publishers) This review summarizes the literature on scleratrophic skin lesions as a manifestation of a Borrelia infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Friday 22 April 2016
Springtime temperatures and warmer, sun-filled days are synonymous with outdoor play. Kids of all ages shed their winter jackets; break out their tricycles, bicycles and more, and head outside for playtime. But outdoor activities are also synonymous with tick exposure. So how can you prepare your family for the tick season? The Boston Children’s Hospital’s Director of Infectious Disease Outpatient Practice, Dr. Catherine Lachenauer offers tips on how to avoid tick exposure and steps to take if your child gets a tick bite. “First and foremost, prevention is key,” says Lachenauer. “Avoid areas at the edge of the woods with long grasses. Also, wearing long, light-colored clothing helps keep ticks from getting on the skin and makes it easier to recognize one on your body.” Tic...
Wednesday 13 April 2016
This article was produced in partnership with Northeastern University and was originally published on Footnote, a website that brings academic research and ideas to a broader audience. A year ago, a group of scientists led by Dr. Kim Lewis, Director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, announced a major breakthrough. They had identified a new antibiotic, teixobactin, capable of destroying several kinds of bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains of tuberculosis and staph (i.e. MRSA).1 Antibiotics are so familiar to us that the discovery of a new one may not seem particularly groundbreaking. Yet in reality, most antibiotics were identified over a half-century ago and new discoveries are quite rare. Teixobactin is actually "the first new antibiotic to be ...
Tuesday 12 April 2016
(Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a $5 million leadership grant to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to support a scientific study, being done in partnership with Bard College, that seeks to reduce Lyme disease in neighborhoods. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Friday 8 April 2016
This study is a useful contribution to ongoing investigations of how to treat ongoing Lyme disease symptoms among patients who have received the standard 28-day course of doxycycline and continue to experience severe symptoms commonly associated with Lyme disease. This study is also significant because, unlike the majority of Lyme disease-related studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals, it made international headlines in mainstream news outlets. Some publications that specialize in medical and health-related stories covered the story appropriately, such as Medscape, whose headline reads, "Post-Treatment Lyme Disease: Longer Antibiotics May Not Help." Others, perhaps most notably Forbes, created their own exaggerated version of the findings. Forbes contributor Steven Salzberg an...
Thursday 7 April 2016
Title: Lyme DiseaseCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Monday 4 April 2016