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Links and Resources

See also Guidelines for Health Professionals

  • Wormser G P, Dattwyler R J, Shapiro E D, et al. The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006; 43: 1089-34. Available free at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/508667
  • Halperin JJ, Shapiro ED, Logigian E, Belman Al, Dotevall L, Wormser GP, et al. Practice Parameter: Treatment of nervous system Lyme disease (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2007;69:91-102.. Available at http://www.neurology.org/cgi/rapidpdf/01.wnl.0000265517.66976.28v1
  • Halperin JJ, Logigian EL, Finkel MF, Pearl RA. Practice parameters for the diagnosis of patients with nervous system Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease). Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 1996 46: 619-627.
  • Wilske B, Zöller L, Brade V, Eiffert H, Göbel UB, Stanek G, Pfister H-W. MiQ12: Quality Standards for the Microbiological Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Lyme Borreliosis. 2000. Available at
    http://nrz-borrelien.lmu.de/miq-lyme/frame-miq-lyme.html
  • The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: Guidelines from the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network. Canadian J Infect Dis 2007;18(2):145-148.

Other information

  • Ljostad U, Skogvoll E, Eikellans E, Midgard R, Skarpaas T, Berg A, Mygland A. Oral doxycycline versus intravenous ceftriaxone for European Lyme neuroborreliosis: a multicentre non-inferiority, double-blind randomised trial. Lancet Neurology 2008;7:690-695
  • Tick Management Handbook available at www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/resources/handbook.pdf
    ( PDF icon Warning: large file, 24MB)
  • Duerden BI. Unorthodox and unvalidated laboratory tests in the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis and in relation to medically unexplained symptoms. Department of Health, London, UK, 2006
    http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/13/89/17/04138917.pdf
  • Sood SK. Effective retrieval of Lyme disease information on the web. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 35: 451-464. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v35n4/020270/020270.html
  • Cooper JD, Feder HM. Inaccurate information about Lyme disease on the Internet. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23(12):1105-8
  • Feder HM. Inaccurate information about lyme disease on the internet (reply to comment). Pediatr Infect Dis J 2005; 24(6):578-579
  • Data on Lyme borreliosis in Europe (Eurosurveillance June 2006)
  • Feder HM. Johnson BJB, O’Connell S, Shapiro ED, Wormser GP and the Ad-Hoc International Lyme disease study group. "A critical appraisal of “chronic Lyme disease”. New Engl J Med 2007;357:1422-30

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Last reviewed: 23 May 2011