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View Post: Futurity.org – Stopping Lyme disease with tick saliva
18 Nov 2009 by Helen Dodson-Yale  
Researchers are targeting a protein found in tick saliva to develop a possible vaccine for a Lyme disease infection. The team hopes the approach will prove useful in efforts to stop the spread of West Nile virus infection, dengue fever, ...
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View Post: On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers ...
19 Nov 2009 by BJS  
A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine ...
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View Post: Ticks and Dog Training: My Life with Lyme Disease, Part 2
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19 Nov 2009 by Jennifer Merritt   ...
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View Post: On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers ...
19 Nov 2009
The Lyme bacterium known as Borrelia burgdorferi is transmitted by tic...Lead author Erol Fikrig MD of Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hu...,On,the,trail,of,a,vaccine,for,Lyme,disease:,Yale,researchers,target,tick,saliva,medicine ...
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View Post: Ticks and Dog Training: My Life with Lyme Disease, Part 1 - The ...
18 Nov 2009
If there was one factor that I never considered as a dog trainer, it was my chances of contracting Lyme Disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks. Lyme is transmitted to people and animals while being bitten by an infected tick. ...
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View Post: Jenna's Lyme Blog « Lizards For Chronic Lyme Disease
12 Nov 2009 by Jenna Smith  
I hate to admit my growing distrust of any news related to Lyme disease that is released by any government approved agency. But in this case I am praying that this important information from the California Health Department Division of ...
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View Post: Watching Lyme disease-causing microbes move in ticks
17 Nov 2009
Lyme disease is caused by the microbe Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans from feeding ticks. Justin Radolf and colleagues, at the University of Connecticut Health Centre, Farmington, have now visualised the microbe ...
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View Post: Infectious Arthritis - Lyme disease
8 Nov 2009
... if swollen, can discern whether the fluid is inflammatory or not and this will help in the diagnosis. A blood test for Lyme disease is most helpful is well. IF in doubt, see a rheumatologist to get the diagnosis straightened out. ...
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View Post: Clinical trials validate the severity of persistent Lyme disease ...
16 Nov 2009 by Linda  
BACKGROUND: Persistent Lyme Disease Symptoms (PLDS) have included fatigue, headaches, poor concentration and memory, lightheadedness, joint pain, and mood disturbances. Evidence-based guidelines committees disagree over the severity of ...
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