Browsing by Subject "Borrelia burgdorferi"
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Chronic coinfections in patients diagnosed with chronic lyme disease: a systematic review.
(Am J Med, 2014-11)PURPOSE: Often, the controversial diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is given to patients with prolonged, medically unexplained physical symptoms. Many such patients also are treated for chronic coinfections with Babesia, ... -
Chronic Lyme disease.
(Infect Dis Clin North Am, 2015-06)Chronic Lyme disease is a poorly defined diagnosis that is usually given to patients with prolonged, unexplained symptoms or with alternative medical diagnoses. Data do not support the proposition that chronic, ... -
Chronic Lyme disease: the controversies and the science.
(Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther, 2011-07)The diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease has been embroiled in controversy for many years. This is exacerbated by the lack of a clinical or microbiologic definition, and the commonality of chronic symptoms in the general population. ... -
Empiric antibiotic treatment of erythema migrans-like skin lesions as a function of geography: a clinical and cost effectiveness modeling study.
(Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, 2013-12)The skin lesion of early Lyme disease, erythema migrans (EM), is so characteristic that routine practice is to treat all such patients with antibiotics. Because other skin lesions may resemble EM, it is not known whether ... -
Lyme disease vaccination: are we ready to try again?
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Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2015-11-01)BACKGROUND: Lyme disease is diagnosed by 2-tiered serologic testing in patients with a compatible clinical illness, but the significance of positive test results in low-prevalence regions has not been investigated. METHODS: ... -
Targeting Borrelia burgdorferi's Heat Shock Protein for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease
(2020)Infections are most commonly identified by microscopy, culturing the organism, or testing the patients blood for antigens or antibodies. These methods are unreliable in bacteria that persist in a non-dividing, metabolically ... -
Unorthodox alternative therapies marketed to treat Lyme disease.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2015-06-15)BACKGROUND: Some patients with medically unexplained symptoms or alternative medical diagnoses suspect that they chronically suffer from the tick-borne infection Lyme disease. These patients are commonly targeted by providers ...
