Lyme Disease Educational Materials For Sale

1. 2008 Lyme Disease Symposium Compendium (CD)
   This CD contains presentation outlines, abstracts and Power Point presentations from the conference. $10

2. Dr. Richard Horowitz: "Classical and Integrative Medical Approaches in Chronic Lyme Disease: New Paradigms in Diagnosis and Treatment" (DVD)
   This lecture was recorded at the Lyme Symposium held at the University of New Haven on May 17, 2008. $15
   
   
3. Dr. Steven Phillips: "Chronic Lyme: An Evidence-Based Review"
   This lecture was recorded at the Lyme Symposium held at the University of New Haven on May 17, 2008. $15
   
   
4. Dr. Alan MacDonald: "Biofilms of Borrelia burgdorferi and Clinical Implications for Chronic Borreliosis" (DVD)
   This lecture was recorded at the University of New Haven, July 7, 2008. $15
   
   
5. Dr. Steven Phillips: "Chronic Lyme Disease: Connection to MS- Facts behind the controversy" (DVD)
   This lecture was recorded at the Lyme Symposium held at the University of New Haven on May 12, 2006. $15
   
   

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   Prices include shipping & handling
   
   Please send a check or money order payable to University of New Haven (with your address) to:
   
   Eva Sapi Ph.D.
   University of New Haven
   Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences
   Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program
   300 Boston Post Road, Dodds Hall 314
   West Haven, Connecticut 06516
   203-479-4552
   

Please Support Continuing Lyme Research!

Our Mission

In the United States between 20,000 and 25,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported per year, with numbers continuing to rise. This number is estimated to be grossly under reported by at least 10 times. Lyme disease is caused by a rather unusual parasitic spirochete called Borrelia burgdorferi and initial symptoms can usually be treated with antibiotics, however in many cases patients often show chronic problems long after treatment. It is unknown exactly why many people develop these long term symptoms.

One possible explanation is that Borrelia is not the only organism being transmitted by the tick bite. Co-infection with some other agent or agents may be behind those chronic symptoms. Here in the UNH Lyme Lab, we are actively searching for possible culprits of that co-infection both bacterial and viral. Ultimately we would like to be able to develop ultrasensative test kits to better diagnose patients thought to be infected with multiple organisms.

Preliminary screens of harvested ticks for agents other than Borrelia show promising results. We hope to start screening Lyme patients for these possible co-infective agents soon.

To Find out More about the Research we do here at UNH, please read this.

Ixodes tick and Borrelia burgdorferi

Check out some pictures of the group out in the field by clicking on the following picture.