Lyme disease

So new it doesn’t have a name: Yale researchers discover tick-borne infection
01/17/2013 - 09:54

A new tick-borne infection that shares many similarities with Lyme disease has been discovered in 18 patients in southern New England and neighboring New York by researchers at the Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine. The report is published in the Jan. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Scientists Step Up Hunt for Bacterial Genes Tied to Lyme Disease
10/25/2012 - 18:10

Investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have accelerated the search for the bacterial genes that make the Lyme disease bacterium so invasive and persistent. The discovery could advance the diagnosis and treatment of this disease, which affects an estimated 30,000 Americans each year.

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Lyme retreatment guidance may be flawed
08/31/2012 - 08:51

A new statistical review calls into question studies that have been taken as proof that antibiotic retreatment for chronic Lyme disease is futile. That misunderstanding has led to medical guidance that discourages retreatment and insurance coverage for it. Instead, the authors of the review suggest, the proper reading of the studies and their data is that they prove nothing.

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Scientists have identified a novel animal reservoir for a group of tick-borne diseases
06/22/2012 - 13:33

A team of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis has been keeping a wary eye on emerging tick-borne diseases in Missouri for the past dozen years, and they have just nailed down another part of the story. They knew from earlier work that the animal reservoirs for the diseases included white-tailed deer, wild turkey and a species in the squirrel familiy, but the DNA assay they had used wasn’t sensitive enough to identify the species.

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Survey of pet dogs indicates Lyme disease risk much greater than previous estimates suggest
01/25/2012 - 08:12

Ticks infected with the bacteria that cause Lyme disease may be considerably more prevalent in the UK than expected, according to new research from the University of Bristol that used pet dogs as ‘sentinels’ for human disease risk.

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Unique spinal fluid proteins found in chronic fatigue, post Lyme disease syndrome patients
02/26/2011 - 00:00

Results suggest both CFS and post Lyme disease syndrome involve central nervous system but are different illnesses. Chronic fatigue syndrome knocks people down with a debilitating fatigue, but researc

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