The Global Search for Education: Austria – Ticks
“In patients with persistent symptoms, I think the number with co-infections is almost 100%. I only have a few patients with classic Lyme.” – Elke Schäfer Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme Borreliosis) are recognized tick-borne infectious diseases in the United...
The Global Search for Education: Germany – Ticks
“One of the first projects should be the improvement of the test sensitivity for chronic Lyme disease patients worldwide. The European Union has spent over 1 million Euros on the development of a high-sensitive lab on a chip project which is still underway.” — Dr. Armin Schwarzbach The CDC’s new estimate this month of 300,000 cases of Lyme disease per year in the US (10 times higher than previously...
The Global Search for Education: Norway – Ticks
“Our method is based upon live blood microscopy. Bacteria become visible by optical changes involving refraction index, swelling and spreading of cells which result in inflated structures well above the optical resolution capacities for a light microscope.” — Morten Laane and Ivar Mysterud Oslo University biologists Morten Laane and Ivar Mysterud have discovered a method to identify Borrelia bacteria in the...
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