May 22 Federal Lyme Webinar: Join in!

Save the date & join in the webinar On May 22, 2014 from 1:00-2:30PM ET, a webinar hosted by the HHS Working Group on Lyme & Other TBD will highlight the state of research on persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi. Significant animal studies will be discussed by the researchers who did the studies. Phone lines will be available for call in questions. Watch LDA website for updates on how to access phone lines as they become available. Click here for current details

 

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https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources/May2014_HHS_Lyme_Disease_webinar_mazarin_508.pdf

New CDC Study A CDC funded study will look for other TBDs in humans will begin this summer (2014) and take place over several years. The study to be done in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Health & the Tennessee Department of Health and other partners. A total of 30,000 specimens will be collected from people in those states whose doctors think they have a TBD. Those samples will be screened using molecular methods to determine the presence of bacterial agents, e.g., borrelia, ehrlichia, rickettsia, bartonella, mycoplasma, and other bacterial agents. Specimens will be banked for possible further studies looking for other organisms.