4 Antibiotic Resistance and Persisters In Lyme disease

The other day, someone asked me what the difference was between bacteria which is antibiotic resistant and bacteria which are persister cells, thinking they were the same thing. When one first hears about bacteria persisting, one often makes the assumption that must mean it's antibiotic resistant. But there is a difference between bacteria which are antibiotic resistant and bacterial persister cells - which are antibiotic tolerant . I'm going to provide a simple illustration (ragged as it is) to show what that difference is without getting...

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2 Op/Ed: Thoughts And Reflections On Worldwide Lyme Disease Awareness Protest

This past weekend, May 16-18, many Lyme disease patients, their advocates, and organizations hit the streets, sent out tweets, and held events not only to spread awareness about Lyme disease around the world - but to be a vocal group protesting the current state of affairs regarding how the medical community manages tickborne diseases. I admit I'm late to the game on this one, having fallen behind on some of the activities going on in the Lyme disease advocacy world and focusing more on new research, a few Lyme disease related bills making...

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2 Lyme Disease Prevention: Tick Tack Toe Graphic

This is just a brief post with a graphic about Lyme disease prevention created for Spring/Summer 2014 for use on Twitter, Facebook, or any of a number of social media sites. Camp Other's Tick Tack Toe game rules are simple: It is won by all players crossing off all squares to help avoid tickborne disease. Feel free to share... My only requirements are that you pass it on as it is with no further additions or subtractions - basically don't change it. Enjoy! This work by Camp Other is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...

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4 Part 3: Sexual Transmission Of Lyme Disease - Is There Evidence?

This article is the continuation of "Part 2: Sexual Transmission of Lyme Disease - Is There Evidence?", our series on sexual transmission and contact studies involving Borrelia burgdorferi. To review the content of the first article briefly: We discussed the fact that no human sexual transmission studies of Borrelia burgdorferi have been conducted to date and reviewed the outcomes of animal studies on contact transmission and sexual (venereal) transmission. Based on all studies which could be found, there was evidence that Borrelia burgdorferi...

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0 Part 2: Sexual Transmission Of Lyme Disease - Is There Evidence?

Syrian hamsters mating. From How to Breed Syrian Hamsters on wikiHow. This article is the continuation of "Part 1: Sexual Transmission Of Lyme Disease - Is There Evidence?", our series on sexual transmission and contact studies involving Borrelia burgdorferi. To review the content of the first article briefly: We discussed three studies which are often used online to support the idea that Lyme disease could be a sexually transmitted disease between human patients. While two of those studies provided some evidence patients had spirochetal...

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