Efficacy of Double-Dose Dapsone Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease/Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) and Associated Co-infections: A Report of Three Cases and Retrospective Chart Review. [PDF]
Horowitz RI, Freeman PR.
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Cognitive Decline in Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome [PDF]
Patient-reported cognitive complaints are common in those with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). Objective evidence of cognitive impairment in this population is variable in part due to methodological variability in existing studies. In this study, we sought to use a systematic approach to characterizing PTLDS based on the most current ...
Pegah, Touradji +4 more
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Borrelia burgdorferi is highly susceptible to antibiotic treatment and the majority of patients profit from this treatment. Antibiotic selection, dose and route of administration, and duration of therapy for Lyme disease depend on the patient\u2019s ...
di Meo, Nicola +5 more
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Aberrant T-cell phenotypes in a cohort of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease. [PDF]
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 long COVID and other post-acute infection syndromes. While prior studies suggest immune dysregulation
Girgis AA +11 more
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A giant mystery in giant cell myocarditis: navigating diagnosis, immunosuppression, and mechanical circulatory support. [PDF]
Giant cell myocarditis is a rare but often devastating diagnosis. Advances in cardiac imaging and mechanical circulatory support have led to earlier and more frequent diagnoses and successful management. This disease state has wide variation in acuity of
Dunn, Steven P +3 more
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Identification of New Drug Candidates Against \u3cem\u3eBorrelia burgdorferi\u3c/em\u3e Using High-Throughput Screening [PDF]
Lyme disease is the most common zoonotic bacterial disease in North America. It is estimated that .300,000 cases per annum are reported in USA alone. A total of 10%–20% of patients who have been treated with antibiotic therapy report the recrudescence of
Babar, Mustafeez Mujtaba +9 more
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Differences in clinicopathologic variables between Borrelia C6 antigen seroreactive and Borrelia C6 seronegative glomerulopathy in dogs. [PDF]
BackgroundRapidly progressive glomerulonephritis has been described in dogs that seroreact to Borrelia burgdorferi, but no studies have compared clinicopathologic differences in Lyme-seroreactive dogs with protein-losing nephropathy (PLN) versus dogs ...
Goldstein RE +6 more
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Contemporary societies are often "polarized", in the sense that sub-groups within these societies hold stably opposing beliefs, even when there is a fact of the matter.
O'Connor, Cailin, Weatherall, James Owen
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Neurocognition in Post-Treatment Lyme Disease and Major Depressive Disorder [PDF]
Neurocognitive dysfunction in patients with residual or emergent symptoms after treatment for Lyme Disease is often attributed to comorbid depression. In this study, patients with Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) were compared to patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), as well as healthy comparison subjects (HC), on neurocognitive ...
John G, Keilp +5 more
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