Post by Admin/ Traveler on Jan 14, 2020 17:35:13 GMT
Hi All - well, the Lyme world seems to be in a quieter period lately. There's the usual stuff - bills being passed that are questionable as to whether they will actually help Lyme patients or not, more and more people (including celebrities) that are coming out and saying they have Lyme disease - but I figure to read those kinds of things are not the reasons people would come here. I hope I'm correct in this.
What I did come across was basically a "primer" for Lyme disease. Want to know the truth of the situation? Read on!!I have only posted the Abstract, because, in order for the full article to be really accurate, it is also VERY LONG! So, please do go check it out!!! Some VERY interesting tidbits in there!!
Review Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums
by Vladimir V. Bamm, Jordan T. Ko, Iain L. Mainprize, Victoria P. Sanderson, and Melanie K. B. Wills
G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Abstract: Lyme disease is a complex tick-borne zoonosis that poses an escalating public health threat in several parts of the world, despite sophisticated healthcare infrastructure and decades of effort to address the problem. Concepts like the true burden of the illness, from incidence rates to longstanding consequences of infection, and optimal case management, also remain shrouded in controversy. At the heart of this multidisciplinary issue are the causative spirochetal pathogens belonging to the Borrelia Lyme complex. Their unusual physiology and versatile lifestyle have challenged microbiologists, and may also hold the key to unlocking mysteries of the disease. The goal of this review is therefore to integrate established and emerging concepts of Borrelia biology and pathogenesis, and position them in the broader context of biomedical research and clinical practice. We begin by considering the conventions around diagnosing and characterizing Lyme disease that have served as a conceptual framework for the discipline. We then explore virulence from the perspective of both host (genetic and environmental predispositions) and pathogen (serotypes, dissemination, and immune modulation), as well as considering antimicrobial strategies (lab methodology, resistance, persistence, and clinical application), and borrelial adaptations of hypothesized medical significance (phenotypic plasticity or pleomorphy).
What I did come across was basically a "primer" for Lyme disease. Want to know the truth of the situation? Read on!!I have only posted the Abstract, because, in order for the full article to be really accurate, it is also VERY LONG! So, please do go check it out!!! Some VERY interesting tidbits in there!!
Review Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums
by Vladimir V. Bamm, Jordan T. Ko, Iain L. Mainprize, Victoria P. Sanderson, and Melanie K. B. Wills
G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Abstract: Lyme disease is a complex tick-borne zoonosis that poses an escalating public health threat in several parts of the world, despite sophisticated healthcare infrastructure and decades of effort to address the problem. Concepts like the true burden of the illness, from incidence rates to longstanding consequences of infection, and optimal case management, also remain shrouded in controversy. At the heart of this multidisciplinary issue are the causative spirochetal pathogens belonging to the Borrelia Lyme complex. Their unusual physiology and versatile lifestyle have challenged microbiologists, and may also hold the key to unlocking mysteries of the disease. The goal of this review is therefore to integrate established and emerging concepts of Borrelia biology and pathogenesis, and position them in the broader context of biomedical research and clinical practice. We begin by considering the conventions around diagnosing and characterizing Lyme disease that have served as a conceptual framework for the discipline. We then explore virulence from the perspective of both host (genetic and environmental predispositions) and pathogen (serotypes, dissemination, and immune modulation), as well as considering antimicrobial strategies (lab methodology, resistance, persistence, and clinical application), and borrelial adaptations of hypothesized medical significance (phenotypic plasticity or pleomorphy).