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Lyme update: does longer-term antibiotic therapy help?
"Patients with subjective, vexing symptoms attributed to Lyme disease should not anticipate that even longer courses of antibiotics will produce relief, a finding that is in concert with results from previous trials."
Chronic Lyme disease, post-Lyme disease syndrome and insights from the pathophysiology of sepsis
Chronic Lyme disease, now correctly termed post-Lyme disease syndrome (PLDS), has challenged and confused practitioners and patients unfamiliar with the potential autoimmune sequelae of infection... The principles of managing autoimmunity, triggered by infection or not, entail discernment of the multiple underlying mechanisms contributing to loss of immune tolerance of self-tissue...This must be borne in mind by the clinician managing either autoimmunity triggered by Lyme or other infections
Confusion over Lyme disease diagnosis can result in inappropriate treatment
Confusion over Lyme disease diagnosis can result in inappropriate treatment