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Lyme disease: the next decade

open access: yesInfection and Drug Resistance, 2011
Raphael B Stricker, Lorraine JohnsonInternational Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD, USAAbstract: Although Lyme disease remains a controversial illness, recent events have created an unprecedented opportunity to make progress against ...
Raphael B Stricker, Lorraine Johnson
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Genesis and dissemination of a controversial disease: Chronic Lyme

open access: yesInfectious Diseases Now, 2021
To describe the role of the internet and cognitive biases in the controversy surrounding chronic Lyme disease. The attribution of chronic but aspecific symptoms to Lyme borreliosis is a source of worldwide controversy.Some patients attribute their aspecific symptoms to Lyme borreliosis even though, in fact, they have a functional somatic syndrome.These
Xavier Gocko   +2 more
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Precision medicine: retrospective chart review and data analysis of 200 patients on dapsone combination therapy for chronic Lyme disease/post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: part 1 [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of General Medicine, 2019
Richard I Horowitz,1,2 Phyllis R Freeman2 1Health and Human Services, Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Washington, DC 20201 USA; 2Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park, NY 12538, USA Purpose: We collected data from an online survey of 200 of our ...
Horowitz RI, Freeman PR
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Lyme disease: case report of persistent Lyme disease from Pulaski County, Virginia

open access: yesInternational Medical Case Reports Journal, 2013
James R Palmieri,1 Scott King,1 Matthew Case,1 Arben Santo21Department of Microbiology, Infectious and Emerging Diseases, 2Department of Pathology, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, USAAbstract: A 50-year-old woman from Pulaski,
Palmieri JR, King S, Case M, Santo A
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2023
Lyme disease caused by infection with a multitude of vector-borne organisms can sometimes be successfully treated in its very early stages. However, if diagnosis is delayed, this infection can become disseminated and, like another spirochetal infection ...
Martha M. Grout, Kenneth B. Mitchell
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The social representations of diagnosing Lyme disease

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Social science studies on the controversy surrounding Lyme disease (LD) focused on the opposition between the “mainstream” and biomedical approach on one side and the “Lyme-literate” one on the other side, the latter claiming the existence of the chronic
C. Puppo   +5 more
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Detecting Borrelia Spirochetes: A Case Study With Validation Among Autopsy Specimens

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2021
The complex etiology of neurodegenerative disease has prompted studies on multiple mechanisms including genetic predisposition, brain biochemistry, immunological responses, and microbial insult.
Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila   +8 more
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Combatting Lyme disease myths and the “chronic Lyme industry” [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2019
Medical organizations are developing tools to help Canadian doctors talk to patients about Lyme disease at a time when many frontline physicians report feeling ill-prepared to counter misinformation about the condition and pressured to send patients for Lyme testing and prescribe antibiotics ...
openaire   +4 more sources

A rare case of pseudotumor cerebri in adult Lyme disease

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, 2020
It is important to recognize the rare manifestations of chronic Lyme disease to prevent permanent disabilities. We present an adult case of chronic Lyme disease, who developed pseudotumor cerebri and who needed supplementary surgical treatment.
Louise Nørreslet Gimsing   +1 more
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