Dr. Daniel Cameron

Four of the citizen scientists collectively recovered several hundred ticks over a 3-year period starting in 2014. The Saint John, New Brunswick collection process went beyond conventional flagging. “Ticks were obtained by flagging backyard vegetation with a white hand towel, removing ticks from flowers harvested in the backyard, and collecting ticks from the household cat,” […]

How common is poor sleep quality in Lyme disease? A study found that 41% of early Lyme disease patients reported new-onset difficulty sleeping — and for some, sleep problems persisted long after treatment ended. The Study: Sleep Quality in Early Lyme Disease Weinstein and colleagues examined sleep quality in Lyme disease patients who were treated

A woman with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) underwent routine dental extraction of four molars. Despite an uneventful surgery and aggressive multimodal pain management, the procedure triggered severe, widespread full-body pain that required ICU admission. Lim from the University of California in San Francisco documented this case, which illustrates the extraordinary pain vulnerability that PTLDS

The article published in General Hospital Psychiatry examines the temporal incidence of obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) among 147 subjects, ages 18 – 82, with Lyme disease. The study found that 84% of these individuals reported having “clinically significant” OCS. However, only 44% identified themselves as experiencing OCS. Their obsessions and compulsions included washing, checking, ordering,

In their study, Buchholz and colleagues, from Western Kentucky University, found that more than half of the mice in Kentucky tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi. They also discovered that the prevalence of B. burgdorferi was higher in tissue than in blood – a finding consistent with other studies. “Overall prevalence of B. burgdorferi in mammals

A 30-year-old man presented to the ER with “a pulse of 53/min and annular macular rash located over the anterior and posterior aspect of the left chest wall,” writes Cunha. Laboratory evidence confirmed Lyme disease by ELISA and both an IgG and IgM western blot. His ejection fraction was slightly reduced at 50%. The rash

Lyme disease chest pain can perfectly mimic myocardial infarction with elevated cardiac biomarkers and EKG changes indistinguishable from acute coronary syndrome. A 45-year-old woman presenting with chest pain radiating to her neck had all the hallmarks of heart attack until cardiac catheterization revealed normal coronary arteries. Only when facial palsy developed two days later was