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Bartonella spp. bacteremia in blood donors from Campinas, Brazil

Commentary: Ticks contain multiple bacterial, parasitic and viral infections, and several tick-borne infections are also known to be transmitted by ...
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Joint Pain, From the Gut

Commentary: This article discusses the importance of the microbiome in chronic disease. New research is now showing that certain bacteria ...
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Lyme neuroborreliosis and dementia

Commentary: Lyme disease and Alzheimer's disease can both cause cognitive difficulties with dementia. In this article published in the Journal ...
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The Bill: Steven Brill on how health-care reform went wrong

Commentary: This article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker magazine discusses where health care reform in our country has gone ...
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LYMEPOLICYWONK: Two Standards of Care Revisited: Should Lyme Patients Have A Choice?

Commentary: Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer for Lymedisease.org just released an updated blog on the 2 standards of ...
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Borrelia burgdorferi Promotes the Establishment of Babesia microti in the Northeastern United States

Commentary: This article on Lyme disease and Babesiosis was just published in PLoS ONE. Dr Peter Krause and a team ...
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Morphological and biochemical features of Borrelia burgdorferi pleomorphic forms

Commentary: Borrelia burgdorferi has been shown to have different pleomorphic forms in different culture conditions. The bacteria's ability to change ...
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Isolation of Tacaribe Virus, a Caribbean Arenavirus, from Host-Seeking Amblyomma americanum Ticks in Florida

Commentary: New tick-borne co-infections are regularly being discovered. Ticks contain many different bacterial infections (Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Bartonella, Borrelia species like ...
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Mysterious Virus That Killed a Farmer in Kansas Is Identified

Commentary: The NY Times just published an article on the recently discovered “Bourbon virus” that killed a farmer in Kansas. ...
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Cuomo Signs Lyme Disease Bill

Commentary: Jill Auerbach,chairperson of the Hudson Valley Lyme Disease Association, was recently on HVNN discussing the implications of the Governor ...
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