Dr. Daniel Cameron

What Are Treatments for Lyme Disease? Treatments for Lyme disease vary depending on the stage of infection, symptom severity, and the presence of coinfections. Two major medical organizations—the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)—have published evidence-based treatment guidelines that recommend different approaches to therapy. The Infectious […]

How to Prevent Lyme Disease: What Actually Works Prevention of Lyme disease is the most effective way to avoid an infection that can become complicated and life-altering. There is currently no widely available human vaccine, diagnostic testing can be imperfect, and treatment may become more complex when co-infections such as Babesia are involved. The best

How Lyme Pathogens Change Tick Behavior and Survival Research suggests that pathogens carried by ticks may alter tick behavior in ways that improve their survival and increase the likelihood of disease transmission. Infections with organisms such as Borrelia, Anaplasma, and Babesia appear capable of manipulating tick biology, potentially increasing the tick’s ability to locate hosts

Lyme Disease Co-Infections: Symptoms, Testing, and Treatment Lyme disease co-infections occur when a tick transmits more than one infectious pathogen during a single bite. Black-legged ticks can carry bacteria, parasites, and viruses capable of infecting humans at the same time. Today, ticks harbor multiple infectious pathogens that can be transmitted through a tick bite or

What is Lyme disease? Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected black-legged tick. The illness is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped organism known as a spirochete. The bacterium is typically transmitted by the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), commonly called the deer tick. When an