Recent research has found false-positive results in people without Lyme disease at 3 of 4 commercial US laboratories (ranging from 2.5% to 25%), with a rate of more than 50% of false positives at one lab. Tests at the National Microbiology Laboratory of Canada, which uses guidelines from ...
supposed under-diagnosis resulting from perceived inadequacies of serological testing for Lyme disease, ii) expectation that incidence in Canadian provinces and neighbouring US states should be similar, and iii) analysis of serological responses of dogs to the agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi...
Myfeature story on Lyme diseaseprompted plenty of messages from readers describing the debilitating effects of Lyme disease that went undiagnosed. Here is a poignant letter from Linda Laidlaw, a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, who tells of her daughter’s ordeal and calls for ...
Ticks have a 2 year life cycle going from egg, to 6-legged larva, to 8-legged nymph, to adult, requiring a blood meal at each stage. The blood meal can come from birds, any animal or humans.[1]Because Lyme Disease was first identified in Lyme ...
Analysis of serological testing predicts the surveillance criteria generate 10.4-fold under-diagnosis (9.6% cases detected) in New Brunswick for 2014 due to serology alone. Calculation of expected human Lyme disease cases based on tick and canine infections in New Brunswick indicates a minimum of ...
healthcare Article Extensive Distribution of the Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, in Multiple Tick Species Parasitizing Avian and Mammalian Hosts across Canada John D. Scott 1,*, Kerry L. Clark 2, Janet E. Foley 3, John F. Anderson 4, Bradley C. Bierman 2 and Lance...