The Lyme Disease Association announces its 19th annual scientific conference, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: Turning the Corner Through Research, will be held October 27 & 28, 2018 in Providence, RI at the landmark Marriott Providence Downtown hotel. Once again, Columbia University jointly provides this educational conference with the LDA.

This conference is designed for medical & health professionals & researchers. The conference is also open for the general public to register. Adults only. Scholarships for conference/transportation available for medical students, residents, post-doctoral candidates, fellows, veterinarians with equivalent status to the above, and nurse practitioner candidates.

Topics of the conference include, phase 1 of a post-mortem study on borrelia & the brain, new treatments for borrelia persisters, biomarkers of Lyme, metabolomic features of chronic illness, small fiber peripheral neuropathy, borrelia immune evasion and persistence, alpha-gal meat allergy, serologic diagnosis of TBD, the invasive longhorn tick in the US, genetic modifications of ticks, babesia treatments, Powassan, cancer research & the diagnosis and treatment of TBD; Borrelia Miyamotoi, prevention strategies and vaccine development; and concurrent TBD case report & literature review.

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