Lyme disease vaccine trials show promise
Excerpted from Futurity: (05/13/2013) “After a series of experimentations and refinements, formulations consisting of these new OspA proteins were shown to protect against a broad spectrum of Lyme...
View ArticleUNF Researchers Make Big Discovery About Lyme Disease
Excerpted from WJCT News: (06/25/2013) It’s a groundbreaking medical finding on the UNF campus. Dr. Kerry Clark, University of North Florida associate professor of public health, and his colleagues...
View ArticleIn Test Tube, ‘Pulse-Doses’ Of Antibiotic Wipe Out Lyme Disease Bacteria...
Excerpted from WBUR: (0\6/12/2015) From the Northeast to the Midwest and beyond, it’s high season for Lyme disease. An estimated 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with the spreading, tickborne disease...
View ArticleFighting Lyme Disease in the Genes of Nantucket’s Mice
Excerpted from The New York Times : (06/07/2016) Can genetically engineered mice save Nantucket from the scourge of Lyme disease? If the 10,000 residents of the Massachusetts island did not have such...
View ArticleMystery Solved: How Lyme Disease Bacteria Spread Around the Body
Excerpted from Live Science : (08/25/2016) Drugs that target BBK32 might help to prevent the spread of B. burgdorferi to joints, the heart and the nervous system, although future research is needed to...
View Article33 percent of area ticks carry Lyme disease, finds Pitt-Johnstown study
Excerpted from the Tribune’Democrat : (09/26/2016) But the results of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown associate professor’s multi-year study shocked her anyway. DNA testing of 500 deer...
View ArticleThe secret Swiss Agent: Puzzling comments reveal new twist to the Lyme...
Excerpted from the Stanford Medicine: (10/13/2016) While I was conducting a 2013 biographical interview with Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, the discoverer of the Lyme disease bacterium, he reluctantly...
View ArticleDo Microbes Trigger Alzheimer’s Disease?
Excerpted from The Scentist : (09/01/2017) In late 2011, Drexel University dermatology professor Herbert Allen was astounded to read a new research paper documenting the presence of long,...
View ArticleSevere, lingering symptoms seen in some patients after Lyme disease treatment
Excerpted from John Hopkins Univ. : (02/02/2018) In a study of 61 people treated for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, Johns Hopkins researchers conclude that fatigue, pain, insomnia, and...
View ArticleLyme disease study looks at factors that may increase threat
Excerpted from The Poughkeepsie Journal; (07/12/2018) A new study examining nearly 20 years of data on forests and climate in Dutchess County may shed light on how ecology directly impacts the spread...
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