ArticleMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report2017
Serious Bacterial Infections Acquired During Treatment of Patients Given a Diagnosis of Chronic Lyme Disease - United States.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Treatment of post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms-a systematic review.European journal of neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Lyme Neuroborreliosis.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2018Pooled it
- Designing studies for post-treatment Lyme disease and other infection-associated chronic illnesses.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Review
- Lyme borreliosis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Characteristics of Clinics Offering Nontraditional Lyme Disease Therapies in Lyme Endemic States of the United States.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Lyme borreliosis in Brazil: a critical review on the Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome (Brazilian Lyme-like disease).Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Review
- Current and emerging approaches for eliminatingFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Lyme Disease and Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome: Current and Developing Treatment Options.Cureus · 2023Review
- Persistent Symptoms After Treatment of Lyme Disease.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2022Review
- Destroying the Village in Order to Save It: Collateral Damage in the Battle Over Lyme Disease.Open forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- A Review of Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome and Chronic Lyme Disease for the Practicing Immunologist.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2022Review
- An Efficient Stacked Deep Transfer Learning Model for Automated Diagnosis of Lyme Disease.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter-AssociatedOpen forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Post-treatment Lyme Disease as a Model for Persistent Symptoms in Lyme Disease.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Review
- A case ofInfectious disease reports · 2019Article
- The French Society of Internal Medicine's Top-5 List of Recommendations: a National Web-Based Survey.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Misdiagnosis of Lyme Disease With Unnecessary Antimicrobial Treatment Characterizes Patients Referred to an Academic Infectious Diseases Clinic.Open forum infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Énoncé de position de l'AMMI Canada sur le diagnostic de la maladie de Lyme et le traitement des personnes ayant des symptômes persistants attribués à cette maladie.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2019Article
- AMMI Canada position statement on the diagnosis and treatment of people with persistent symptoms that have been attributed to Lyme disease.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2019Article
- "Late You Come: Legislation on Lyme Treatment in an Era of Conflicting Guidelines".Open forum infectious diseases · 2017Article
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Abstract
The term "chronic Lyme disease" is used by some health care providers as a diagnosis for various constitutional, musculoskeletal, and neuropsychiatric symptoms (1,2). Patients with a diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease have been provided a wide range of medications as treatment, including long courses of intravenous (IV) antibiotics (3,4). Studies have not shown that such treatments lead to substantial long-term improvement for patients, and they can be harmful (1,5). This report describes cases of septic shock, osteomyelitis, Clostridium difficile colitis, and paraspinal abscess resulting from treatments for chronic Lyme disease. Patients, clinicians, and public health practitioners should be aware that treatments for chronic Lyme disease can carry serious risks.
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