The duration of antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease has been increasing in clinical practice. In this double-blind trial, researchers randomized 180 patients (minimum age, 16) with annular ...

The Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at JH Green Spring Station is recruiting research participants for a tetracycline treatment trial ...

The authors of the ILADS guidelines recognize chronic Lyme disease and condone the use of antibiotic therapy lasting several months, and they have a library of scientific literature to back them up.

There is no controlled evidence that viable Borrelia burgdorferipersists in patients with prolonged, subjective symptoms following confirmed Lyme disease. The duration of initial antibiotic ...

You cannot get Lyme disease if you come into contact with someone’s sneeze, cough, or blood. Learn when it is contagious and ...

A new toolkit can help physicians navigate the management of patients with prolonged symptoms after antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease, discussants said during a CDC webinar for clinicians last ...

Even after receiving the standard Lyme disease antibiotic treatment, about 10% to 20% of patients experience persisting symptoms. In 2016, there were an estimated 70,ooo PTLDS cases in the US.

The same ticks that carry Lyme Disease can also transmit Ehrlichiosis at the same time. Without treatment Ehrlichiosis can be fatal. Ehrlichiosis can be treated with the same antibiotic used to treat ...

“Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by ... So it would result in six weeks of antibiotic treatment in total.” Prof ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...