Lyme Disease Blog

GenoPrint Corporation is planning a large, formalized clinical trial of a natural tick repellant before releasing it for sale to the public. According to the company, this nontoxic, non-carcinogenic repellant has no perfume odor (natural or chemical), no oily or greasy ingredients, and no chemicals. GenoPrint is looking for subjects at risk of significant tick [...]

Herpes viruses have been around for thousands of years and are the third most common kinds of viruses behind colds and the flu. The word herpes comes from the Greek for “creep,” so named for sores that seem to crawl over the skin. These microscopic infectious agents use the mechanisms of living cells to replicate [...]

Ehrlichia in humans refers to a group of related rickettsial bacterial diseases transmitted through a tick bite. The two main types of human ehrlichiosis are human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) and human granulocytic anaplasmosis (formerly known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis or HGE).  Ehrlichia chaffeensis causes monocytic ehrlichiosis. Anaplasma phagocytophilum (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophilum) is responsible for anaplasmosis. [...]

Journal Articles: Note: You can find online medical journal articles by searching “[diseasename] journal articles”. Unfortunately many cost between $10 and $60 each. Here are free informative (but not too technical) articles on Babesia with PDF downloads. L.M. Weiss, M. Wittner, & H.B. Tanowitz, M.D. The Treatment of Babesiosis. (March 8, 2001) New England Journal [...]

Bartonella is a modern microbiologist’s dream. This gram-negative bacterium has the ability to cause human disease in many different ways. In fact, prior to 1990, Bartonella was known to cause only two diseases. Today at least eight Bartonella species cause a wide range of symptoms, with more species being identified regularly. Many are geographic-specific, however, [...]

Babeisiosis, or infection with the protozoan Babesia, has been around for hundreds of years in wild and domestic animals such as cattle, horses, and sheep. But it wasn’t identified in humans until the 1960’s. Babesia lives in many of the same animals as the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia. The same tick species that transmit Lyme [...]