Posts Tagged ‘2009’
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009. Wilmore Webley, PhD discusses the role of biofilms in the persistence of organisms such as Chlamydia pneumonia and Borrelia in chronic infection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zYTzTlTlk
Topics: 2009, biofilm, Borrelia, chlamydia, chronic, Massachusetts, persistence, pneumonia, symptom, video, Webley
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Infection and Immunity, 2009. The ability of Borrelia burgdorferi to bind to the protein fibronectin in the host may contribute both to the disease’s development and continuing infection in animals and humans. Includes charts.
See the full text at http://iai.asm.org/content/77/7/2802.full.pdf+html
Topics: 2009, antigen, Borrelia, borreliosis, Bowman, Brissette, burgdorferi, Bykowski, Cooley, fibronectin, Lyme, protein, Stevenson
Posted in categories chart, journal, medical, Off Site Article |
Molecular Microbiology, 2009. A new fast-freeze tomography imaging technique uncovers differences between different species of Borrelia and similarities with syphilis bacteria. Includes charts, images, tables.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06613.x/full
Topics: 2009, afzelii, Baumeister, Borrelia, borreliosis, burgdorferi, chart, Cyrklaff, Frischknecht, garinii, hermsii, image, imaging, journal, Kudryashev, Lyme, Off Site Article, science, Simon, syphilis, table, Treponema, Wallich
Posted in categories chart, image, journal, Off Site Article, science, table |
Journal of the American Veterinarian Association, 2009. Study finds that testing ticks taken from dogs is a better method than blood testing dogs to discover if an area is endemic for tick-borne disease. Includes maps, chart.
Click on the “Download PDF” button for the full text at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24001390_Use_of_tick_surveys_and_serosurveys_to_evaluate_pet_dogs_as_a_sentinel_species_for_emerging_Lyme_disease
Topics: 2009, anaplasma, Babesia, blood, borreliosis, chart, dog, epidemiology, Foster, Hamer, Hickling, Lyme, Mansfield, map, PCR, test, tick, Tsao, Walker
Posted in categories chart, journal, map, medical, Off Site Article |
PLoS ONE, 2009. A study noting that the leprosy antibiotic clofazimine is effective against the autoimmune process. Includes charts, images.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2602975
Topics: 2009, antibiotics, autoimmune, Chong, clofazimine, Dang, Fleig, immune, Jiang, Liu, Pan, Parvez, Penner, Ren, treatment, Xu, Zhang
Posted in categories chart, image, journal, medical, Off Site Article |
International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2009 (abstract only). Mouse study showing that tick saliva makes the mice more susceptible to Lyme infection.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19147403
Topics: 2009, Borrelia, borreliosis, burgdorferi, Cerna-Kyckova, Horka, immune, Ixodes, Kopecky, Lyme, mouse, ricinus, saliva, Skallovy, tick, transmission
Posted in categories abstract, journal, Off Site Article, science |
Joint Bone Spine, 2009 (abstract only). A case study of four patients in France who tested positive for Lyme disease, whose shoulder pain was consistent with Parsonage-Turner Syndrome.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19147387
Topics: 2009, Bardin, borreliosis, Bouchaud-Chabot, Chabroux, diagnosis, France, Lyme, Michel, neuroborreliosis, pain, Parsonage-Turner, Sevrin, shoulder, symptom, Toussirot, treatment, Wendling
Posted in categories abstract, journal, medical, Off Site Article |
Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, 2009. Case studies of two patients with a newly-discovered Bartonella species, B. melophagi, with a list of various Bartonella infections and a description of symptoms. Includes image, table.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/1/08-1080_article
Topics: 2009, antibiotics, Bartonella, bartonellosis, Breitschwerdt, henselae, Kosoy, Maggi, melophagi, Mintzer, symptom, transmission, treatment
Posted in categories image, journal, medical, Off Site Article, table |