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3 days ago · Ducharme highlights that while acute Lyme disease cases have established diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the same clarity does not extend to cases where symptoms persist long after the initial antibiotic treatment. The medical community far less accepts these cases, known as chronic Lyme disease or Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS).
5 days ago · But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that treatment fails for up to 10% of patients, who develop what is officially known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome ...
2 days ago · NIAID scientists and colleagues are investigating a potential treatment strategy against Lyme disease that would directly suppress Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes the disease. If successful, their idea could reduce or end aggressive broad-spectrum antibiotic treatments that can be drawn-out and destroy the body’s helpful bacteria.
1 day ago · Without proper treatment, Lyme disease can progress to the late disseminated stage, which may occur weeks to months after the initial infection. Symptoms of late-stage Lyme disease may include severe joint pain and swelling, neurological complications (such as numbness, tingling, and cognitive impairment), and heart problems.
1 day ago · In this course clinicians can learn about the different kinds of ticks, the diseases they carry, and about the testing, diagnosis and treatment of those diseases. “ILADS is a nonprofit international multidisciplinary medical society…dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and complex inflammatory diseases.”
4 days ago · Because Lyme disease often mimics other disorders, its diagnosis is sometimes difficult, especially when there is no record of the distinctive rash. Early treatment of Lyme disease with antibiotics is important in order to prevent progression of the disease to a more serious stage. More powerful antibiotics are used in the latter case, though ...
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3 days ago · "To prescribe antibiotic prophylaxis selectively to prevent Lyme disease, health care practitioners in areas of endemicity should learn to identify I. scapularis ticks, including its stages, and to differentiate ticks that are at least partially engorged with blood," the authors write. Testing of ticks for tick-borne infectious agents is not ...
