The content of Module Four was sourced from the following:

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  • Allan, B., & Smylie, J. (2015). First Peoples, second class treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Wellesley Institute. https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Summary-First-Peoples-Second-Class-Treatment-Final.pdf
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  • Aucott J. N., Rebman A. W., Crowder L. A., & Kortte K. B. (2013). Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome symptomatology and the impact on life functioning: is there something here? Quality of Life Research, 22, 75-84. Doi: 10.1007/s11136-012-0126-6
  • Beaulieu, L. (2020). Dévoiler l’expérience et la réalité contextuelle des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme chronique (MLC) au Canada Atlantique – Ethnographie critique (unpublished Master’s dissertation). Université de Moncton: Moncton NB.
  • Berger, J. J. & Hayes, B. K. (2018). Tick-borne disease working group: 2018 Report to Congress. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/tbdwg-report-to-congress-2018.pdf
  • Borchers, A. T., Keen, C. L., Huntley, A. C., & Gershwin, M. E. (2015). Lyme disease: A rigorous review of diagnostic criteria and treatment. Journal of Autoimmunity, 57, 82-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2014.09.004
  • Boudreau, C.R., Lloyd, V.K., & Gould, O.N. (2018). Motivations and experiences of Canadians seeking treatment for Lyme disease outside of the conventional Canadian health-care system. Journal of Patient Experience, 5(2), 120-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2374373517736385
  • Bransfield, R.C. (2017). Suicide and Lyme and associated diseases. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 13, 1575-1587. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S136137
  • Butler T. (2017). The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction after antibiotic treatment of spirochetal infections: A review of recent cases and our understanding of pathogenesis. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(1), 46–52. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0434
  • Cameron, B. L., Pilar Carmargo Plazas, M., Salas, A. S., Bourque Bearskin, R. L., & Hungler, K. (2014). Understanding inequalities in access to health care services for aboriginal people: A call for nursing action. Advances in Nursing Science, 37(3), E1-E16. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000039
  • Campbell-Lendrum, D., Manga, L., Bagayoko, M., & Sommerfeld, J. (2015). Climate change and vector-borne diseases: what are the implications for public health research and policy? Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 370(1665), 20130552. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0552
  • CanLyme. (n.d). Lyme Diagnosis. Retrieved January 19, 2021 https://canlyme.com/just-diagnosed/
  • Cardenas-de la Garza, J. A., De la Cruz-Valadez, E., Ocampo-Candiani, J., & Welsh, O. (2019). Clinical spectrum of Lyme disease. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 38(2), 201-208. doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3417-1
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  • Cook, M. J. (2015). Lyme borreliosis: A review of data on transmission time after tick attachment. International Journal of General Medicine, 8, 1-8. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S73791
  • Davidsson, M. (2018). The financial implications of a well-hidden and ignored chronic Lyme disease pandemic. Healthcare, 6(16), 1-50. doi:10.3390/healthcare6010016
  • Drew, D. & Hewitt, H. (2006). A qualitative approach to understanding patients’ diagnosis of Lyme disease. Public Health Nursing, 23(1), 20-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0737-1209.2006.230104.x
  • Fallon, B. A., Zubcevik, N., Bennett, C., Doshi, S., Rebman, A. W., Kishon, R., Moeller, J. R., Octavien, N. R., & Aucott, J. N. (2019). The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A brief measure of multi-system symptom burden in Lyme disease. Frontiers in Medicine, 6, 283. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00283
  • Feng, J., Li, T., Yee, R., Yuan, Y., Bai, C., Cai, M., Shi, W., Embers, M., Brayton, C., Saeki, H., Gabrielson, K., & Zhang, Y. (2019). Stationary phase persister/biofilm microcolony of Borrelia burgdorferi causes more severe disease in a mouse model of Lyme arthritis: implications for understanding persistence, Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), and treatment failure. Discovery Medicine, 27(148), 125–138.
  • Furgal, C. (2010). Health impacts of climate change in Canada’s North. In Seguin, J. (Ed). Human health in a changing climate: A Canadian assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity (pp. 307-366). Ottawa, ON: Health Canada.
  • Goodman, A., Fleming, K., Markwick, N., Morrison, T., Lagimodiere, L., Kerr, T., & Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (2017). “They treated me like crap and I know it was because I was Native”: The healthcare experiences of Aboriginal peoples living in Vancouver’s inner city. Social Science & Medicine, 178, 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.053
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The content of Module Four was sourced from the following:

  • Adrion, E. R., Aucott, J., Lemke, K. W., & Weiner, J. P. (2015). Health care costs, utilization and patterns of care following Lyme disease. PloS One, 10(2), e0116767.
  • Ali, A., Vitulano, L., Lee, R., Weiss, T. R., & Colson, E. R. (2014). Experiences of patients identifying with chronic Lyme disease in the healthcare system: A qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, 15(79). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-7
  • Allan, B., & Smylie, J. (2015). First Peoples, second class treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Wellesley Institute. https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Summary-First-Peoples-Second-Class-Treatment-Final.pdf
  • Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (2019). AMMI Canada position statement on the diagnosis and treatment of people with persistent symptoms that have been attributed to Lyme disease. Retrieved from https://www.ammi.ca/Content/03.17.19%20AMMI%20Canada%20Position%20Statement%20%28EN%29.pdf
  • Aucott J. N., Rebman A. W., Crowder L. A., & Kortte K. B. (2013). Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome symptomatology and the impact on life functioning: is there something here? Quality of Life Research, 22, 75-84. Doi: 10.1007/s11136-012-0126-6
  • Beaulieu, L. (2020). Dévoiler l’expérience et la réalité contextuelle des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme chronique (MLC) au Canada Atlantique – Ethnographie critique (unpublished Master’s dissertation). Université de Moncton: Moncton NB.
  • Berger, J. J. & Hayes, B. K. (2018). Tick-borne disease working group: 2018 Report to Congress. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/tbdwg-report-to-congress-2018.pdf
  • Borchers, A. T., Keen, C. L., Huntley, A. C., & Gershwin, M. E. (2015). Lyme disease: A rigorous review of diagnostic criteria and treatment. Journal of Autoimmunity, 57, 82-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2014.09.004
  • Boudreau, C.R., Lloyd, V.K., & Gould, O.N. (2018). Motivations and experiences of Canadians seeking treatment for Lyme disease outside of the conventional Canadian health-care system. Journal of Patient Experience, 5(2), 120-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2374373517736385
  • Bransfield, R.C. (2017). Suicide and Lyme and associated diseases. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 13, 1575-1587. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S136137
  • Butler T. (2017). The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction after antibiotic treatment of spirochetal infections: A review of recent cases and our understanding of pathogenesis. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(1), 46–52. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0434
  • Cameron, B. L., Pilar Carmargo Plazas, M., Salas, A. S., Bourque Bearskin, R. L., & Hungler, K. (2014). Understanding inequalities in access to health care services for aboriginal people: A call for nursing action. Advances in Nursing Science, 37(3), E1-E16. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000039
  • Campbell-Lendrum, D., Manga, L., Bagayoko, M., & Sommerfeld, J. (2015). Climate change and vector-borne diseases: what are the implications for public health research and policy? Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 370(1665), 20130552. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0552
  • CanLyme. (n.d). Lyme Diagnosis. Retrieved January 19, 2021 https://canlyme.com/just-diagnosed/
  • Cardenas-de la Garza, J. A., De la Cruz-Valadez, E., Ocampo-Candiani, J., & Welsh, O. (2019). Clinical spectrum of Lyme disease. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 38(2), 201-208. doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3417-1
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  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020b). Signs and symptoms of untreated Lyme disease. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_symptoms/index.html
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  • Chaaya, G., Jaller-Char, J. J., & Ali, S. K. (2016). Beyond the bull’s eye: Recognizing Lyme disease. Journal of Family Practice, 65(6), 373-380. https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/issues/articles/content_3a7d8058cb82b990e7_JFP_06506_Article2.PDF
  • Cook, M. J. (2015). Lyme borreliosis: A review of data on transmission time after tick attachment. International Journal of General Medicine, 8, 1-8. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S73791
  • Davidsson, M. (2018). The financial implications of a well-hidden and ignored chronic Lyme disease pandemic. Healthcare, 6(16), 1-50. doi:10.3390/healthcare6010016
  • Drew, D. & Hewitt, H. (2006). A qualitative approach to understanding patients’ diagnosis of Lyme disease. Public Health Nursing, 23(1), 20-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0737-1209.2006.230104.x
  • Fallon, B. A., Zubcevik, N., Bennett, C., Doshi, S., Rebman, A. W., Kishon, R., Moeller, J. R., Octavien, N. R., & Aucott, J. N. (2019). The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A brief measure of multi-system symptom burden in Lyme disease. Frontiers in Medicine, 6, 283. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00283
  • Feng, J., Li, T., Yee, R., Yuan, Y., Bai, C., Cai, M., Shi, W., Embers, M., Brayton, C., Saeki, H., Gabrielson, K., & Zhang, Y. (2019). Stationary phase persister/biofilm microcolony of Borrelia burgdorferi causes more severe disease in a mouse model of Lyme arthritis: implications for understanding persistence, Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), and treatment failure. Discovery Medicine, 27(148), 125–138.
  • Furgal, C. (2010). Health impacts of climate change in Canada’s North. In Seguin, J. (Ed). Human health in a changing climate: A Canadian assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity (pp. 307-366). Ottawa, ON: Health Canada.
  • Goodman, A., Fleming, K., Markwick, N., Morrison, T., Lagimodiere, L., Kerr, T., & Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (2017). “They treated me like crap and I know it was because I was Native”: The healthcare experiences of Aboriginal peoples living in Vancouver’s inner city. Social Science & Medicine, 178, 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.053
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  • Government of Canada (2016). Treatment of West Nile virus. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/west-nile-virus/treatment-west-nile-virus.html
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  • Government of Canada (2017b). Treatment of Lyme disease. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/lyme-disease/treatment-lyme-disease.html
  • Government of Canada (2017c). Lyme disease in Canada: A federal framework. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-canada-federal-framework.html
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