Severity of lyme disease with persistent symptoms. Insights from a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial

Minerva Medica

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 489-496

  Cameron, D ^a,b  

^a Northern Westchester Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b Northern Westchester Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Amoxicillin; Lyme disease; Quality of life; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; GASTRITIS; HEART DISEASE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT FORM 36; SIDE EFFECT; SPIROCHETE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57949116216     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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