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Lyme Disease [PDF]

Workplace Health & Safety, 2015
When asked to think of headlining diseases, many would choose bubonic plague, smallpox, Ebola, or leprosy. However, Lyme disease makes up for more confirmed diagnostic cases in the United States than all the aforementioned diseases combined.
Beal, Marin Olson
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Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines [PDF]

, 2009
The Connecticut Attorney General’s recent allegations that the Infectious Disease Society of America violated antitrust law through its treatment guidelines for Lyme disease were neither based in sound science or appropriate legal judgment.
Gostin, Lawrence O., Kraemer, John D.
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Aberrant T-cell phenotypes in a cohort of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease

Frontiers in Immunology
Post-treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD) is a poorly understood complication of Borrelia burgdorferi infection with significant patient morbidity. Characterized by fatigue, generalized myalgias, and cognitive impairment, PTLD symptomatology closely resembles ...
Alexander A. Girgis, Alexander A. Girgis, Raffaello Cimbro, Ting Yang, Alison W. Rebman, Thelio Sewell, Daniela Villegas de Flores, Aarti Vadalia, William H. Robinson, William H. Robinson, Andrea L. Cox, Erika Darrah, Mark J. Soloski, John Aucott   +13 more
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Modified two-tiered testing algorithm for Lyme disease serology: the Canadian context

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2020
Background: Lyme disease (LD) is emerging in many parts of central and eastern Canada. Serological testing is most commonly used to support laboratory diagnosis of LD.
Todd Hatchette, Robbin Lindsay, on behalf of the Lyme Disease Diagnostics Working Group   +2 more
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Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in historic tick samples and its relevance to the white-tailed deer population in New Hampshire [PDF]

, 2018
The cases of Lyme disease in New Hampshire have increased over time. There are speculations that increasing number of Lyme disease cases in New Hampshire are due to environmental factors, such as warmer climate, white-footed mouse population, white ...
Rakasiwi, Tasya
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A sex-based analysis of complete blood count features during acute, untreated Lyme disease

Frontiers in Medicine
IntroductionAlthough lymphopenia has been described in acute Lyme disease (LD), the complete blood count (CBC) has not been comprehensively examined, nor have sex-based analyses been conducted. We analyzed CBC values and identified sex-based trends among
Alison W. Rebman, Ting Yang, Jonathan M. Zenilman, Mark J. Soloski, John N. Aucott   +4 more
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Probable late lyme disease: a variant manifestation of untreated Borrelia burgdorferi infection

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background Lyme disease, a bacterial infection with the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, can cause early and late manifestations. The category of probable Lyme disease was recently added to the CDC surveillance case definition to describe ...
Aucott John N, Seifter Ari, Rebman Alison W   +2 more
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The effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the health impact of climate change:a systematic review of systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2013
Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers considering the health impact of climate change, few have considered what public health interventions may be of ...
A Bouchama, A Croft, AJ McMichael, BF Arnold, BR Murphy, C Baker-Austin, C Gamble, C Heintze, C Savage, CE Lawrance, D Kay, D Zmirou, DE Bowler, DJ Rogers, E Esu, EN Naumova, FC Curriero, FO ter Kuile, G Nichols, GA Romero, GH Guyatt, H Balshem, H Nakato, H Paerl, HL Risebro, HW Choi, HY Richardson, IR Lake, IR Lake, J Carmona-Fonseca, J Keiser, JC Semenza, K Ohtomo, KK Ballenger-Browning, KL Bassil, L Fewtrell, Lee Hooper, M Hashizume, M Hashizume, MA Luque Fernandez, Maha Bouzid, MK van Aalst, Monica da Silva Nunes, MS Islam, N Al-Muhandis, N Siva, P Reiter, Paul R. Hunter, PM Graves, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, RF Baggaley, RM Elliott, RS Kovats, RS Kovats, RS Kovats, S Gundry, S Paz, S Warshafsky, SE Hrudey, T Clasen, TE Erlanger, TP Eisele, V Abrahamson, WP Schmidt, X Wang   +67 more
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Evidence for the Presence of Borrelia burgdorferi Biofilm in Infected Mouse Heart Tissues

Microorganisms
Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, has been shown to form antimicrobial-tolerant biofilms, which protect it from unfavorable conditions.
Sahaja Thippani, Niraj Jatin Patel, Jasmine Jathan, Kate Filush, Kayla M. Socarras, Jessica DiLorenzo, Kunthavai Balasubramanian, Khusali Gupta, Geneve Ortiz Aleman, Jay M. Pandya, Venkata V. Kavitapu, Daina Zeng, Jennifer C. Miller, Eva Sapi   +13 more
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Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015–2020

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In 2015, we founded Pedi Lyme Net, a pediatric Lyme disease research network comprising 8 emergency departments in the United States. Of 2,497 children evaluated at 1 of these sites for Lyme disease, 515 (20.6%) were infected.
Lise E. Nigrovic, Desire N. Neville, Fran Balamuth, Michael N. Levas, Jonathan E. Bennett, Anupam B. Kharbanda, Amy D. Thompson, John A. Branda, Aris C. Garro   +8 more
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