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  1. Arnie Pye

    Video : Fat-Bias Nearly Cost Him His Life [Patient had Lyme Disease]

    Since Lyme Disease gets mentioned on the forum from time to time I thought this video might be of interest :
  2. Mij

    Pfizer and Valneva Initiate Phase 3 Study of Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate VLA15

    https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-valneva-initiate-phase-3-study-lyme-disease
  3. Andy

    Six versus 2 weeks treatment with doxycycline in European Lyme neuroborreliosis, 2022, Solheim et al

    Full title: Six versus 2 weeks treatment with doxycycline in European Lyme neuroborreliosis: a multicentre, non-inferiority, double-blinded, randomised and placebo-controlled trial Abstract Background There is limited evidence regarding optimal duration of antibiotic treatment in...
  4. Andy

    Neurological Pain, Psychological Symptoms, and Diagnostic Struggles among Patients with Tick-Borne Diseases, 2022, Maxwell et al

    Abstract Public health reports contain limited information regarding the psychological and neurological symptoms of tick-borne diseases (TBDs). Employing a mixed-method approach, this analysis triangulates three sources of symptomology and provides a comparison of official public health...
  5. Andy

    Efficacy of Short-Term High Dose Pulsed Dapsone Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease.., 2022, Horowitz and Freeman

    Full title: Efficacy of Short-Term High Dose Pulsed 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 Literature Review Abstract Lyme disease and associated co-infections...
  6. Andy

    Predicting distributions of blacklegged ticks, Lyme disease spirochetes and human Lyme disease cases in the eastern US, 2022, Burtis et al

    Full title: Predicting distributions of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), Lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto) and human Lyme disease cases in the eastern United States Abstract Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States...
  7. Andy

    Management and clinical outcomes of Lyme disease in acute care facilities in 2 endemic regions of Quebec, Canada:, 2022, Musonera et al

    Full title: Management and clinical outcomes of Lyme disease in acute care facilities in 2 endemic regions of Quebec, Canada: a multicentre retrospective cohort study Abstract Background: Despite increases in cases of Lyme disease, little is known about the management and clinical course of...
  8. Mij

    Chronic Lyme disease - discussion thread

    Posts moved from this thread: The science of craniocervical instability and other spinal issues and their possible connection with ME/CFS - discussion thread Absolutely. The advocacy community commonly argues that chronic Lyme disease is grossly underdiagnosed and is responsible for an...
  9. O

    Mistaken Identity: Many Diagnoses are Frequently Misattributed to Lyme Disease, 2021, Kobayashi et al

    Abstract Background: Prior studies have demonstrated that Lyme disease is frequently over-diagnosed. However, few studies describe which conditions are misdiagnosed as Lyme disease. Methods: This retrospective observational cohort study evaluated patients referred for Lyme disease to a...
  10. S

    A selective antibiotic for Lyme disease, Leimer et al. 2021

    Merged thread For the abstract of the paper and a link to it, see this post. The discovery that a chemical is deadly to the bacterium that causes Lyme disease but harmless to animals might allow the disease to be eradicated in the wild. “Lyme disease is well-positioned to be eradicated,”...
  11. J

    How I Became a Sick Person—Ross Douthat NYT

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/lyme-disease-chronic-illness.html Ross Douthat is a columnist for The NY Times. He is both a political and religious conservative. He contracted Chronic Lyme disease and wrote a book about it (he has mostly recovered). This column is an excerpt from...
  12. ME/CFS Skeptic

    Characterising DSCATT: A case series of Australian patients with debilitating symptom complexes attributed to ticks, 2021, Schnall et al.

    Objectives(s): To characterise the clinical profile, aetiology and treatment responsiveness of ‘Australian Lyme’, or Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks. Methods: Single-centre retrospective case analysis of patients referred to the Infectious Diseases Unit at Austin Health – a...
  13. Joan Crawford

    Tests for borrelia (Lyme)

    New Phage based test for borrelia A new Phage based test has been developed to detect borrelia bacteria in collaboration between Leicester University (Dr Martha Clokie https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/people/martha-clokie) and Phelix (Dr Louis Teulières) Paper here: Info about...
  14. MeSci

    'People say I don't look ill' - BBC article on Lyme Disease

    Lyme disease: 'People say I don't look ill' - BBC News Yen Lau caught Lyme disease from an infected tick bite during a camping trip to Loch Lomond almost four years ago. She says she is living with an "invisible disease" that today still causes her days-long bouts of sickness, migraines...
  15. D

    First Clinical Study of the Safety and Blood Levels of a Human Monoclonal Antibody (2217LS) Against Lyme Disease Bacteria in Healthy People

    First Clinical Study of the Safety and Blood Levels of a Human Monoclonal Antibody (2217LS) Against Lyme Disease Bacteria in Healthy People, 2021, MassBiologics, Phase I Study Type : Interventional (Clinical Trial) Estimated Enrollment : 48 participants Allocation: Randomized Intervention...
  16. 5vforest

    Detecting Borrelia Spirochetes: A Case Study With Validation Among Autopsy Specimens, 2021, Gadila et al

    Detecting Borrelia Spirochetes: A Case Study With Validation Among Autopsy Specimens Authors Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila, Gorazd Rosoklija, Andrew J. Dwork, Brian A. Fallon, Monica E. Embers Abstract The complex etiology of neurodegenerative disease has prompted studies on multiple mechanisms...
  17. M

    A comprehensive clinical and laboratory evaluation of 224 patients with persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure (2021) Nilsson

    A comprehensive clinical and laboratory evaluation of 224 patients with persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure Abstract Background: Persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure constitute an unresolved medical controversy. We evaluated whether Swedish...
  18. 5vforest

    Efficacy of Double-Dose Dapsone Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease/Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (2020, Horowitz)

    Open access, full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690415/
  19. Dolphin

    Clinical practice guidelines by the IDSA ... 2020 guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease, 2020, Lantos et al

    https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/early/2020/11/30/WNL.0000000000011151.full.pdf
  20. Andy

    Lessons Learned from a Rhode Island Academic Out-Patient Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Clinic, 2020, McCarthy et al

    Abstract on PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33261237/ Open access, http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2020/12/2020-12-51-contribution-mccarthy.pdf
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