IDSA protest & other Lyme news

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3 Lyme groups join forces to protest IDSA Lyme guidelines in San Diego, Oct. 9-10. You too? 2013 IDSA protest, San Francisco LymeDisease.org, the Mayday Project, and the San Diego Lyme Disease Support Group will demonstrate outside the IDSA's annual convention in San Diego, on Oct. 9-10. A candlelight vigil on the evening of Oct. 9, will honor those who have passed away from the illness. READ MORE. Other news from our blogs   8 pages of Lyme info inserted into NY newspapers Could you have Lyme disease and not know it? When no one believes you are sick Connecticut BLAST Lyme program gets funding boost Unusual presentation of Lyme disease in Georgia LymeDisease.org, publisher of The Lyme Times, is the Lyme community's leading source of news, information, and health policy analysis.  Become a member today.

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http://aac.asm.org/content/early/2015/07/21/AAC.00883-15.abstract

Persister Development by B. burgdorferi Populations In Vitro

1. John R. Caskey and 
2. Monica E. Embers*

+ Author Affiliations

1. Division of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, LA

ABSTRACT

Doxycycline is a commonly used antibiotic to treat Lyme disease and other bacterial infections. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) for Borrelia burgdorferi have been investigated by different groups, but are experimentally established here as a function of input cell density. We demonstrate that B. burgdorferi treated in the stationary phase have a higher probability of regrowth following removal of antibiotic. In addition, we determine experimentally and mathematically that the spirochetes which persist post-treatment do not have a longer lag phase, but exhibit a slower growth rate than untreated spirochetes. Finally, we demonstrate that treating the spirochetes by pulse-dosing was not found to eliminate growth or reduce the persister population in vitro. From these data, we propose that B. burgdorferi persister development is stochastic and driven by slowed growth.

FOOTNOTES

• ↵*corresponding author: 18703 Three Rivers Rd., Covington, LA 70433, Phone: (985) 871-6607, Email: members@tulane

"Learn the Facts About Lyme" flyer

Take a look at this flyer that has been made up in the format of a flyer that can be inserted into a newspaper or magazine. This document is a very concise explanation of Lyme and its treatments, perfect for those who do not know about Lyme but who are curious.

You may want to print some of these out and carry them with you to give to others if the topic of Lyme come up.  They're also good for leaving in a public place such as a doctor's office.

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 PDF Online version: www.jimapco.com/lyme/learnthefacts.pdf

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The Doctor who invented CPR taken down by a tick bite

Dr. James Jude, a thoracic surgeon whose recognition that external manual pressure could revive a stalled heart, and who used that insight to help develop the lifesaving technique now known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, died on Tuesday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 87.

The cause was complications of a Parkinson's-like neurological disorder stemming from a tick bite, his son Peter said.

Read the full article

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/dr-james-jude-who-helped-develop-use-of-cpr-dies-at-87.html

 

How one local man's immunity to ticks could save us all

Richard Ostfeld says he is lucky to have been bitten by ticks so much.

That's because now, when a tick bites him, it usually dies.

Ostfeld is a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook. For decades, he has studied ticks and tick-borne diseases, primarily in the forests and fields of the mid-Hudson Valley. 

Read the whole story:

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/health/lyme-disease/2015/08/01/how-one-local-mans-immunity-ticks-could-save-us-all/30578799/

New tick-borne diseases sending people to emergency department, hospital

Out of Maine . . .

 

Diseases with unfamiliar names like anaplasmosis and babesiosis are a growing health threat in Lincoln County, causing people to be hospitalized with severe flu-like symptoms as the Midcoast area sees the fastest growth in tick-borne diseases in the state.

Read the full story:

http://www.boothbayregister.com/article/new-tick-borne-diseases-sending-people-emergency-department-hospital/56789