Potential Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows Promise
A vaccine for Lyme disease may be on its way, following a promising phase 1/2 clinical trial from investigators at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The finding was published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and revealed that the vaccine resulted in significant antibodies against all targeted species of Borrelia - the agent that causes Lyme disease in the United States and Europe... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Natural Protection Against Lyme borreliosis Found In Wild Mice
Springtime spells tick-time. Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne disease in Switzerland: around 10,000 people a year become infected with the pathogen. The actual hosts for Borrelia, however, are wild mice. Like in humans, the pathogen is also transmitted by ticks in mice. Interestingly, not all mice are equally susceptible to the bacterium and individual animals are immune to the pathogen. Scientists from the universities of Zurich and Lund headed by evolutionary biologist Barbara Tschirren reveal that the difference in vulnerability among the animals is genetic in origin... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Federal Register: Establishing the Performance Characteristics of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices for the Detection of Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi; Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Availability
The FDA is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled "Establishing the Performance Characteristics of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices for the Detection of Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi.' FDA is issuing this guidance to provide industry and... (Source: Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): CDRHNew)
Source: Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): CDRHNew - March 28, 2013 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff - Establishing the Performance Characteristics of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices for the Detection of Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi
FDA is issuing this guidance to provide industry and agency staff with recommendations for studies to establish the analytical and clinical performance of in vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs) intended for the detection of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi. (Source: Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): CDRHNew)
Source: Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): CDRHNew - March 27, 2013 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Quirky Feature Of Lyme Disease Bacteria Revealed
Scientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme Disease - unlike any other known organism - can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes. Instead of iron, the bacteria substitute manganese to make an essential enzyme, thus eluding immune system defenses that protect the body by starving pathogens of iron. To cause disease, Borrelia burgdorferi requires unusually high levels of manganese, scientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the University of Texas reported... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Borrelia Miyamotoi - New Tick Transmitted Disease in North America
Hunterdon Medical Center Physician Successfully Treats First Confirmed Case of Borrelia Miyamotoi - Joseph Gugliotta, M.D.; Anne Felix; Anthony Suarez, MLT (ASCP), Senior Laboratory Technician at Hunterdon Medical Center; and Amy Kurynow, MLT (ASCP), Senior Laboratory Technician at Hunterdon Medical Center. Suarez and Kurynow called attention to the spirochetes during the analysis of the fluid sample from Ms. Felix. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 20, 2013 Category: Disability Tags: Lyme Disease Source Type: news
Lyme Culture Test Causes UproarLyme Culture Test Causes Uproar
The aggressive marketing of an unvalidated culture test for Borrelia burgdorferi has raised red flags among infectious disease specialists and may lead to more restrictive regulation of such tests. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Emerging tick-borne disease reaches USA
A new tick-borne infection caused by the spirochete bacteria Borrelia miyamotoi that produces similar symptoms to Lyme disease has been confirmed in a small number of patients in the USA. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - January 23, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New Tickborne Pathogen Found in U.S. (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- An elderly immunocompromised woman who developed meningoencephalitis was most likely infected with Borrelia miyamotoi, which is related to the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, researchers said. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - January 16, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news
