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A 22 year old female had a tick bite with at rash at age 5 (recalled by mother). Her pediatrician treated her for 3 weeks. No symptoms recal...

History instructs us, oft the best predictor of the future. Infectious plagues, epidemics and endemic, have molded the course of human histo...

Readers know - the suffering of Lyme is so great that contemplation of suicide is common. And then to make matters worse - so often, the deg...

It has long perplexed me why Borrelia bacteria appear to be so abundant in the blood of other mammals but so sparse in human blood. An Ixode...

A 42 year old male came into my office, reluctantly. He thought he was fine. He only came in to mollify an insistent spouse, a spouse famili...

Those in the chronic Lyme community have a narrative for explaining the chronicity of Lyme disease or at least the persistence of Borrelia d...

Every once in a while a patient surprises me and makes it all worthwhile. This is such a story. A 17 year-old female presented in my office...