Dr. Daniel Cameron

Avoiding pacemaker implantation in Lyme carditis prevents young patients from decades of device complications, generator replacements, and cumulative healthcare costs. The SILC score (Suspicious Index in Lyme Carditis) helps clinicians identify which patients have reversible heart block from Lyme disease rather than permanent cardiac disease. When Lyme carditis is recognized early, temporary pacing and antibiotics […]

“Despite being a top international tourist destination, few sources describe the spectrum of infectious diseases acquired among travellers to the USA,” writes Stoney in the Journal Travel Medicine. [1] Stoney, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and colleagues analyzed travel history and clinical diagnoses for non-US-resident travellers who visited GeoSentinel clinics between

Prefer to listen? Listen to this case on our podcast A 69-year-old man was admitted to an emergency room in New York City complaining of headache and double vision from Lyme disease. His case demonstrates how neuroborreliosis can affect the extraocular muscles through cranial nerve involvement. One month earlier, the man had been hiking in

The authors of a recent study published in Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases examined the pathogens in 1,240 host-seeking Ixodes scapularis (black-legged) nymphal ticks from Minnesota. They identified seven infectious agents including Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (bacteria causing Lyme disease), Borrelia mayonii, Borrelia miyamotoi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis, Babesia microti (protozoan) and Powassan (virus). B.

“We present the case of a 75-year-old, Northeast suburban resident [of New York] complaining of unstable gait, high fevers, malaise, myalgia, and confusion,” writes Lamichhane in the journal Hindawi, Case Reports in Infectious Diseases. [1] The man had not travelled outside the area and only reported taking walks in the local park. He did not

In 2015, Lantos and colleagues described cases of Lyme disease occurring in Tennessee. [2] Their study, Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease in the Southeastern United States, 2000-2014, reported human Lyme disease cases had expanded south, stretching along the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in nearby Virginia. Lantos also found infected deer ticks 100km away in