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Lyme disease: A tick-borne spirochetosis

, 1983
A treponema-like spirochete was detected in and isolated from adult Ixodes dammini, the incriminated tick vector of Lyme disease. Causally related to the spirochetes may be long-lasting cutaneous lesions that appeared on New Zealand White rabbits 10 to ...
W. Burgdorfer, A. Barbour, S. F. Hayes, J. Benach, E. Grunwaldt, J. P. Davis   +5 more
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The Clinical, Symptom, and Quality-of-Life Characterization of a Well-Defined Group of Patients with Posttreatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Frontiers in Medicine, 2017
Background The increased incidence and geographic expansion of Lyme disease has made it the most common vector-borne infection in North America. Posttreatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) represents a subset of patients who remain ill following standard
Alison W. Rebman, Kathleen T Bechtold, Ting Yang, Erica A. Mihm, M. Soloski, Cheryl Novak, J. Aucott   +6 more
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(No) Pets on University Campuses: ‘Animaling’ Citizenship for Pet‐Friendly Spaces

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Rising support for pet‐friendly university campuses is driven largely by assumed human well‐being benefits, even though staff and, to a lesser extent, students, raise concerns about how companion animals can be active participants in campus life.
Clare Holdsworth, Daniel Allen, Mark Lucherini, Cameron Causer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryo-Electron Tomography Elucidates the Molecular Architecture of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete [PDF]

, 2009
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) was used to examine the native cellular organization of Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete. T. pallidum cells appeared to form flat waves, did not contain an outer coat and, except for bulges over the basal bodies ...
Cox, David L., Desrosiers, Daniel C., Dunham-Ems, Star, Gebhardt, Linda L., Hsieh, Chyong-Ere, Izard, Jacques, Limberger, Ronald J., Marko, Michael, Radolf, Justin D., Renken, Christian, Vake, Carson La   +10 more
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What is the real number of Lyme disease cases in Canada?

BMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundLyme disease is emerging in Canada due to expansion of the range of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis from the United States. National surveillance for human Lyme disease cases began in Canada in 2009.
N. Ogden, C. Bouchard, J. Badcock, M. Drebot, Susan P. Elias, T. Hatchette, J. Koffi, P. Leighton, L. R. Lindsay, Charles B. Lubelczyk, A. Peregrine, Robert P. Smith, D. Webster   +12 more
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Differentiating Peromyscus leucopus bone marrow-derived macrophages for characterization of responses to Borrelia burgdorferi and lipopolysaccharide

Infection and Immunity
Currently, most tools utilized in host-pathogen interaction studies depend on the use of human or mouse (Mus musculus) cells and tissues. While these species have led to countless breakthroughs in our understanding of infectious disease, there are ...
Christopher C. Wells, Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja, Shumin Tan, Stephen C. Bunnell, Sam R. Telford, Linden T. Hu, Jeffrey S. Bourgeois   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Growth and age differences between two male alternative reproductive tactics in the plainfin midshipman

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus Girard, 1854) is a toadfish with two distinct reproductive male tactics: ‘guarder males’ and ‘sneaker males’. These two tactics are anatomically, physiologically and behaviourally distinct from one another at sexual maturity, but it remained unclear whether these two male types remain fixed or ...
Micah J. Quindazzi, Angus Townsend, Aneesh P. H. Bose, Sigal Balshine, Francis Juanes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does clinical exposure to different skin tones during training improve diagnostic ability?

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Previous studies have shown that medical students demonstrate poorer performance when diagnosing pathology in skin of colour (SOC) compared to white skin (WS); it is important to understand the reasons underpinning this. If not addressed, poorer differential diagnostic ability in certain skin tones could entrench existing racial ...
Yusra Shammoon, Anna Coulson, Bethan Trigg, Nariell Morrison, Adam Potts, Moira Pain, Olamide Oguntimehin, Eleanor J. Hothersall‐Davies, Richard Hankins, Celia A. Brown, Amir H. Sam   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring user experiences of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s Shared Decision Making learning package: an online qualitative study

BMJ Open
Objective To evaluate the user experience of the joint National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)/Keele University Shared Decision Making (SDM) learning package.Design A qualitative study using online semistructured interviews.
Jonathan Underhill, Neal Maskrey, Simon Jacklin, Jessica Thompson, Andy Hutchinson, Katie Maddock, Laura Norburn   +6 more
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Management and clinical outcomes of Lyme disease in acute care facilities in 2 endemic regions of Quebec, Canada: a multicentre retrospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2022
Jean Berchmans Musonera, Louis Valiquette, Geneviève Baron, François Milord, Dominique Marcoux, Karine Thivierge, Samuel Bedard-Dallaire, Andrée Ann Pelletier, Raphaël Lachance, Jeremy Bourget, Catherine Simard, Emmanuelle Cantin, Farhad Abbasi, Louis‐Patrick Haraoui, Alex Carignan   +14 more
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