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American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.

American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 466
Lyme, CT 06371

Learn More About Chronic Lyme Disease

News Articles and Commentaries
  • "Doctors and Others Indicted in Lyme Disease Case"
    [Complete Article]
  • "Ticks Aren't the Only Parasites Living Off Patients in Borreliosis- Prone Areas"
    [Complete Article]
  • "Chronic Lyme" and other medically unexplained syndromes.G. Weissmann FASEB Journal 21: 300-301, 2007.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Four patients falsely diagnosed with Lyme disease win verdicts totaling $30 million."
    [Complete Article]
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications
  • "Misconceptions About Lyme Disease: Confusions Hiding Behind Ill-Chosen Terminology"
    L.H. Sigal, Annals of Internal Med. 136: 413-419, 2002.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Practice Parameter: Treatment of Nervous System Lyme Disease (an Evidenced-Based Review)"
    J.J. Halperin, E.D. Shapiro, E. Loggigian, et al.
    Neurology 69: 91-102, 2007.
    [Complete Article]
  • "A Critical Appraisal of 'Chronic Lyme Disease'"
    H.M. Feder, Jr., B.J.B. Johnson, S. O'Connell, E.D. Shapiro, A.C. Steere, G.P.
    Wormser, and the Ad Hoc International Lyme Disease Group.
    New England Journal of Medicine 357:1422-1430, 2007.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Dispelling the Chronic Lyme Disease Myth"
    M.M. Kemperman, J.S. Baken, and G.R. Kravitz
    Minnesota Medicine 7 (July): 37-41, 2008.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Perspectives on Chronic Lyme Disease"
    P.J. Baker
    American Journal of Medicine 121: 562-564, 2008
    [Complete Article]
  • "Chronic Lyme Disease: A Review"
    A. Marques
    Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 22: 341- 360, 2008
    [Complete Article]
  • "Role of Psychiatric Co-morbidity in Chronic Lyme Disease"
    A.L. Hassett, D.C. Radvanski, S. Buyske,
    et al. Arthritis Rheum. 59: 1742-1749, 2008.
    [Complete Article]
  • Psychiatric Co-morbidity and Other Psychological Factors in Patients with "Chronic Lyme Disease"
    A.L. Hassett, D.C.Radvanski, S. Buyshe, and S.V.Savage
    American Journal of Medicine 122: 843-850, 2009.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Subjective symptoms after treatment of early Lyme Disease"
    Cerar, D., Cerar, T., Ruzic-Sabljic, E. et al.
    Amer. J. Med. 123: 79-86, 2010.
    [Abstract]
  • "Anti-neural antibody reactivity in patients with a history of Lyme borreliosis"
    A.Chandra, G.P. Wormser, M.S.Klempner, et al.
    Brain Behav. Immun., March 2010, Epub ahead of print
    [Complete Article]
Clinical Trials on the Efficacy of Extended Antibiotic Therapy
  • "Two Controlled Trials of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients
    with Persistent Symptoms and a History of Lyme Disease".
    M.S. Klempner, L.T. Hu, J. Evans, et al. New Eng. J. Med.
    345: 85-92, 2001.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Study and Treatment of Post Lyme Disease (STOP-LD): a Randomized Double Masked Clinical Trial".
    L.B. Krupp, L.G. Hyman, R. Grimson, et al. Neurology 60:
    1923-1930, 2003.
    [Abstract]
  • "Cognitive Function in Post-Treatment Lyme Disease: do additional antibiotics help?"
    R.F. Kaplan, R.P. Trevino, G.M. Johnson, et al.
    Neurology 60: 1916-1922, 2003.
    [Abstract]
  • "A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Repeated IV Antibiotic Therapy for Lyme Encephalopathy".
    B.A. Fallon, J.G. Keilp, K.M. Corbera et al.
    Neurology
    70: 992-1003, 2008.
    [Abstract]
Other Clinical Studies or Reports
  • "Death From Inappropriate Therapy for Lyme Disease".
    R. Patel, K.L. Grogg, W.D. Edwards, et al.
    Clin. Infect. Dis.
    31: 1107-1109, 2000.
    [Complete Article]
  • "Natural killer cell counts are not different between patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome and controls".
    A. Marques, M.R. Brown, and T.A. Fleisher.Clin. Vaccine Immunol. (advanced publication)
    [Abstract]
  • "Implications of gender in chronic Lyme disease".
    G.P. Wormser and E.D. Shapiro
    Women's Health 18: 831-834, 2009.
    [Abstract]
  • "Death due to community-associated Clostridium difficile in a woman receiving prolonged antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease.".
    Holzbauer, S.M., Kemperman, M.M., and Lynfield, R.
    Clin. Infect. Dis. 51: 369-370, 2010
    [Complete Article]
Views and Facts About Chronic Lyme Disease from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)