Tracking ticks in Vermont

Tracking Vt. ticks to study Lyme disease

Lyme in mosquitos in Germany

http://www.shoutoutaboutme.com/tick-borne-illness/german-study-finds-borrelia-in-mosquitoes/

Lyme/Alzheimer’s connection:

Letter to the NJ Courier Post announcing progress identifying Lyme/Alzheimer's connection:

http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/07/20/letter-alzheimers-researchers-making-progress/87347532/

Stevia kills Borrelia - in all three forms

Dr. Richard Horowitz, LLMD and author of "Why Can't I Get Better?" says,

Borrelia burgdorferi has been shown to be able to persist in the body. Prior work on Stevia had shown it to be effective against Borrelia biofilms, and in this paper by researchers at the University of New Haven, Stevia was shown to be effective against different morphological forms, as per the three-antibiotic combination (doxy, cefoperazone and daptomycin) shown to be effective by Johns Hopkins researchers. "J. Feng et al.also showed that the three-antibiotic combination (doxycycline, cefoperazone, and daptomycin) was very potent in eliminating the stationary phase rich persisters of Borrelia. In this study, we provided evidence that Stevia A, as an individual agent, was capable of eliminating the spirochetes and the persisters of Borrelia similar to the reported three-drug combination treatment. Our data also showed that the antibiotics in combination on the persisters of Borrelia was indeed consistent with the previous study". 

http://www.akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/1886.2015.00031

https://m.facebook.com/drrichardhorowitz/posts/926372540784878

Co-infection of Ticks: The Rule Rather Than the Exception

More evidence that a tick bite can leave several pathogens behind, so calling everything delivered by a tick bite Lyme is inaccurate.

Prevalence of five pathogenic agents in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from western France.

(The above paper is attached, as a PDF)

Here is another study to consider, also from France.

Co-infection of Ticks: The Rule Rather Than the Exception

First case of Lyme arthritis involving a prosthetic knee joint

First   case of Lyme arthritis involving a   prosthetic knee joint 

http://ofid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/05/11/ofid.ofw096.full.pdf

 

Amazingly complete list of Lyme disease symptoms

If you're a Lyme patient (or doctor) and want to see an exhaustive list of Lyme-related symptoms, look no further. This is quite inclusive (and a bit amazing):

https://sites.google.com/site/marylandlyme/symptoms-information/chronic-lyme-symptom-list