Long-term Assessment of Post-Treatment Symptoms in Patients with Culture-Confirmed Early Lyme Disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1800-1806

  Weitzner, Erica ^a   McKenna, Donna ^a   Nowakowski, John ^a   Scavarda, Carol ^a   Dornbush, Rhea ^b   Bittker, Susan ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Visintainer, Paul ^c   Schwartz, Ira ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; erythema migrans; Lyme; Lyme disease; post treatment Lyme disease symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIZZINESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARESTHESIA; POST TREATMENT LYME DISEASE SYMPTOM; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CULTURE; STIFF NECK; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHEMA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84961595246     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ735     Document Type: Article

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