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Dr. Daniel Cameron

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C6 peptide test may indicate Borrelia miyamotoi infection

Koetsveld and colleagues examined C6 reactivity in sera from both mice infected with Borrelia miyamotoi and from 46 patients with PCR-positive Borrelia miyamotoi disease (BMD). Their results support the use of the C6 peptide test used for for Lyme disease as an indication of borrelia miyamotoi test They found, “Cross-reactivity against the C6-peptide was confirmed […]

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Treatment of Lyme arthritis with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD)

Antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are intended to slow down disease progression. Synthetic DMARDs include methotrexate and sulfasalazine. Biological DMARDs include the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), blockers infliximab (Remicade®), interleukin 1 blockers anakinra (Kineret®), and monoclonal antibodies against B cells (such as rituximab) and the T cell costimulation blocker abatacept (ORENCIA®). The article addressed the factors

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Could advanced imaging reveal cognitive impairment in the brain of a Lyme disease patients?

Multiple studies indicate that neurotransmitter levels can be “related to measures of behavioral outcomes, such as memory, reaction timing,” writes Oeltzschner in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. “These relationships can be region-specific.” Their results might lead to new insights to the brain of Lyme disease patients. Measuring these levels, he adds, “could be a promising

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Consequences of antibiotic stewardship for Lyme disease patients. An opinion.

Patients who did not receive antibiotics or who had delayed antibiotic treatment had approximately twice as many hospital admissions than patients who had been prescribed antibiotics as soon as symptoms appeared. This paper offers insight into the risk of antibiotic stewardship for Lyme disease. According to their study, more than 13% of the patients did

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My child has Lyme disease. Parents describe fear and frustration.

In fact, one study found that in Ontario, Canada adolescents ages 15 to 19 comprised the group of patients most frequently hospitalized for Lyme disease.¹ And the number of cases is expected to escalate. “Increasing numbers of Canadians, including children and adolescents, are being infected with Borrelia burgdorferi and contracting Lyme disease,” writes Gaudet and

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How many patients do not meet the CDC criteria for Lyme disease?

Kobayashi and colleagues concluded that nearly 3 out of 4 patients referred to the clinic did not have Lyme disease using the CDC criteria for Lyme disease. They did not interview the referring doctor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Instead, they conducted a chart review. However, to be included in the study, patients

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Hispanic risk of Lyme disease.

In their article, “Knowledge and prevention of tick-borne diseases among Hispanic and non-Hispanic residents of Maryland and Virginia,” Hu and colleagues examined U.S. Lyme disease (LD) surveillance data and found that “Hispanics were more likely to have disseminated LD compared with non-Hispanics.” The paper address the Hispanic risk of Lyme disease. The authors summarized several

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Babesia duncani emerges in Eastern U.S. and may go undetected

New research indicates, however, there may no longer be a division of babesial strains between the East Coast and the West Coast. In their article “Babesia microti – Borrelia burgdorferi Co-infection,” Parveen reports that B. duncani has now been identified in eastern USA and Canada.¹ “Since B. duncani is widespread in Canada, its southern spread

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Tick prevention for humans vary between socio-economic levels

As part of a TickNET collaboration, researchers examined the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to tick-borne disease prevention among persons living in endemic areas of Connecticut and Maryland.¹ They found that out of the nearly 2,000 people surveyed, performing tick checks for humans and applying tick control to pets were the two most common tick

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