Janakiram Seshu, associate professor of biology and associate dean of The Graduate School at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $404,250 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to support his research to better understand and prevent the spread of Lyme disease.
“Dr. Seshu’s top-tier efforts in infectious disease research are a source of immense pride for the UTSA College of Sciences,” said George Perry, Semmes Foundation Distinguished University Chair in Neurobiology and dean of the UTSA College of Sciences. “His work will undoubtedly have a great impact on our knowledge of Lyme disease, as well as our efforts to fight it.”
“As Lyme disease-carrying ticks increasingly spread to new areas of the country, we need to improve our understanding of the disease. Dr. Seshu’s bacteria research will help us limit Lyme disease’s spread and allow folks here in Texas and across the nation to live healthier lives,” said U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro. “Thanks to UTSA’s continued leadership, science thrives in San Antonio.”
Seshu, a member of the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, is best known by his peers for his inventive approach to stop the spread of Lyme disease. His work, described in a recent paper, leverages medication that is normally used to lower cholesterol.
“As a member of The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID), Dr. Seshu’s work is always interesting and innovative. With Lyme disease-carrying ticks now present in over half the country, his research and findings will provide new insights in the treatment against the particular bacterium,” said Bernard Arulanandam, UTSA interim vice president for research.
The big question at the heart of Seshu’s research is how the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, called Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to adapt to its immediate environment inside the tick vector or infected mammalian hosts. Mammalian bodies are very rich in nutrients and fatty acids, which make it very easy for the bacteria to thrive. The tick’s body is very different. It’s very poor in nutrients. Yet the bacterium adapts very quickly and allows the disease to spread.
To limit the transmission of the disease, Seshu’s entire laboratory is focused on understanding how the Lyme disease-carrying bacterium can reinvent itself to live for so long in such a disagreeable environment.
“This award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease is an exciting investment to tackle a major debilitating disease in the US,” Seshu said. “I’m looking forward to advancing our understanding of this disease, so we can start finding better solutions.”
I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2015 and would like to know more.
Come to http://www.mdjunction.com Lyme disease or Lyme challenges board
Go to the Lyme facts section on each board ,
Print off Dr. B urrasco’s Lyme treatment guidelines, 37 pages read daily to become familiar with it and terminology.
We will help you over there
Dr Dietrich klinghardt has very well written articles on his website on what you can do to combat Lyme disease, i followed his protocols for four years after having been sick for 20 years, and recently all my blood tests and spinal fluid tests came out pretty much clean, they hardly detected any antibodies anymore in my blood, and none in my spinal fluid, i’m literally cured of the disease, never thought that was possible cause i felt like i was dying for 10 years after i was infected.
Only thing that i did that wasn’t specifically named on Dr klinghardt’s website was that you have to have mercury fillings removed from your teeth (he does mention heavy metals need to be eliminated from your system), after that (and ofcourse following the protocol strictly and live as healthy as i possibly could (invest time in finding out what truly healthy living is !) for four years) i pretty much recovered in 2 years time.
I went from sleeping 14 hours a day, constant headaches and being disoriented and having heart arithmia to being pretty much my old self again, like 90%, still have some heart palpitations sporadically, but i used to have them all day every day, all other symptoms have subsided.
I would gladly send my blood for you to study. We live on a road that 1/4 mile long in Upstate New York boarding the Adirondacks and 7 of us are dealing w long term chronic Lyme after many attempts at treatment w antibiotics and holistic avenues have not shown much improvement.
My granddaughter suffers severely from Lyme disease. Would love to know about better treatment and better doctors. No one seems to understand the severity of this disease.
Email Lymedocs at AOL.com which is Ilads headquarters to Barbara, Executive Director.
Give her the age of the child , City and state of the LLMD you need.
Only around 50 kids doctors and the USA. Due to the age of the young children, many do you not take kids. Because they can not tell your u where party n is.
i dictated this; last line should be … young toddlers/kids can NOT tell you where their pain is.
bettyg
First realize that it is carried by any biting insect…ticks are only 1 carrier. My daughter is 11 months into treatment by an LLMD. We need to get more LLMD’s trained asap.
Maybe the Texas Medical Board will start training physicians at our teaching facilities in DFW rather than allowing insurance companies to file complaints against and threaten license suspension of the brave Drs that attempt to treat Lyme disease and coinfections???!!!! Esp since TX denies the very existence of it being here ALL over our state!!! Primary care physicians and inf disease Drs refer u to the teaching hospital in Dallas and when they get ALL your info, they don’t even have the decency to call u or return your records to say they not only do NOT treat LD and coinfections, but they don’t even TEACH about it!!! They don’t even have ANY warning signs posted to even warn people to PROTECT themselves or even that there are ticks in that area!!! It is pitiful! It is a crime! And not even Sen. Chris Harris could get anywhere while in the Texas Senate to save his life or the lives of other Texans! R.I.P. Sen. Harris
May God bless him for his efforts to actually save his constituents lives!!!! Texas is full of Lyme + coinfections carrying ticks and it is continued to be covered up and people are dying and being misdiagnosed DAILY to only end up being disabled or dying from an infectious disease which is continuing to b denied and which we are being denied help and treatment for!!! So help me God