MEDICAL PAPERS

There are constant advancements in medical research. We try to keep up with relevant findings and update our page with research we find most useful. The current topics include:

  1. Waddell, L. A., Greig, J., Mascarenhas, M., Harding, S., Lindsay, R., & Ogden, N. (2016). The Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease in Humans, A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of North American Research. Plos One, 11(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168613

  2. Couper, L. I., Macdonald, A. J., & Mordecai, E. A. (2020). Impact of prior and projected climate change on US Lyme disease incidence. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.31.929380

  3. Hinckley, A. F., Connally, N. P., Meek, J. I., Johnson, B. J., Kemperman, M. M., Feldman, K. A., White, J. L., & Mead, P. S. (2014). Lyme disease testing by large commercial laboratories in the United States. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 59(5), 676–681. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu397

  4. Steere, A. C., Malawista, S. E., Snydman, D. R., Shope, R. E., Andiman, W. A., Ross, M. R., & Steele, F. M. (1977). Lyme arthritis: an epidemic of oligoarticular arthritis in children and adults in three connecticut communities. Arthritis and rheumatism, 20(1), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.1780200102

  5. Horowitz. R. (2014). Horowitz Lyme-MSIDS Questionnaire. Restorative Health Clinic. https://restorativehealthclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Horowitz_LymeDiseaseQuestionnairev.pdf.

  6. Outcomes Important to Lyme Patients. Lyme Disease. (2015, April). http://www.lymedisease.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lymedisease.org-patient-survey-20151.pdf.

  7. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH Categorical Spending -NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). National Institutes of Health. https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx.

  8. Adrion, E. R., Aucott, J., Lemke, K. W., & Weiner, J. P. (2015). Health Care Costs, Utilization and Patterns of Care following Lyme Disease. Plos One, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116767

  9. Lyme, B. A. (2017, September 29). Why Is Lyme Disease Not Covered by Insurance? Bay Area Lyme Foundation. https://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/lyme-disease-not-covered-insurance/.

  10. Johnson, L., Shapiro, M., & Mankoff, J. (2018). Removing the Mask of Average Treatment Effects in Chronic Lyme Disease Research Using Big Data and Subgroup Analysis. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 6(4), 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare6040124

  11. Lyme Disease Research Using Big Data and Subgroup Analysis. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 6(4), 124.

    https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare6040124

  12. How to Find Doctors Who Can Help with Your Tick-Borne Disease. IGeneX. (2020, March 11). https://igenex.com/tick-talk/how-to-find-doctors-who-can-help-with-your-tick-borne-disease/.

  13. Feng, J., Li, T., Yuan, Y., Yee, R., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Biofilm/Persister/Stationary Phase Bacteria Cause More Severe Disease Than Log Phase Bacteria – I Biofilm Borrelia burgdorferi Not Only Display More Tolerance to Lyme Antibiotics But Also Cause More Severe Pathology In a Mouse Arthritis Model: Implications for Understanding Persistence, PTLDS and Treatment Failure. https://doi.org/10.1101/440461

  14. Delong, A., Hsu, M., & Kotsoris, H. (2019). Estimation of cumulative number of post-treatment Lyme disease cases in the US, 2016 and 2020. BMC Public Health, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6681-9

  15. Diuk-Wasser, M. A., Vannier, E., & Krause, P. J. (2016). Coinfection by Ixodes Tick-Borne Pathogens: Ecological,

  16. Epidemiological, and Clinical Consequences. Trends in parasitology, 32(1), 30–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2015.09.008

  17. Dinerman, H., & Steere, A. C. (1992). Lyme Disease Associated with Fibromyalgia. Annals of Internal Medicine, 117, 281–285. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-117-4-281

  18. Gaudino, E. A., Coyle, P. K., & Krupp, L. B. (1997). Post-Lyme syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome. Neuropsychiatric similarities and differences. Archives of neurology, 54(11), 1372–1376. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1997.00550230045015

  19. Arvikar, S. L., Crowley, J. T., Sulka, K. B., & Steere, A. C. (2017). Autoimmune Arthritides, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, or Peripheral Spondyloarthritis Following Lyme Disease. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 69(1), 194–202. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.39866

  20. Pisché, G., Koob, M., Wirth, T., Quenardelle, V., Lagha-Boukbiza, O., Renaud, M., Anheim, M., & Tranchant, C. (2017). Subacute parkinsonism as a complication of Lyme disease. Journal of neurology, 264(5), 1015–1019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8472-5

  21. Kristoferitsch, W., Aboulenein-Djamshidian, F., Jecel, J. et al. Secondary dementia due to Lyme neuroborreliosis. Wien Klin Wochenschr 130, 468–478 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-018-1361-9

  22. ALS Untangled Group (2012). ALS untangled No. 17: "when ALS is lyme". Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases, 13(5), 487–491. https://doi.org/10.3109/17482968.2012.717796

  23. Chmielewska-Badora, J., Cisak, E., Dutkiewicz, J. (2000). Lyme borreliosis and multiple sclerosis: any connection? A seroepidemic study. Ann Agric Environ Med., 7(2), 141-143.

  24. O'neil, J. (2002, March 19). The Not-So-Telltale Sign of Lyme Disease. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/health/vital-signs-symptoms-the-not-so-telltale-sign-of-lyme-disease.html.

  25. Statement for the House Foreign Affairs Committee Africa ... Infectious Disease Society of America. (2012, July 17). https://www.idsociety.org/globalassets/idsa/topics-of-interest/lyme/lyme-disease-testimony-global-health-subcommittee.pdf.

  26. Massarotti EM, Luger SW, Rahn DW, et al. Treatment of early Lyme disease, Am J Med, 1992, vol. 92 (pg. 396-403)

  27. Luger, S. W. (1990). Serologic Tests for Lyme Disease. Archives of Internal Medicine, 150(4), 761. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1990.00390160039009

  28. Secretary, H. H. S. O. of the, & (OB), O. of B. (2017, May 23). FY 2018 Budget in Brief - NIH. HHS.gov. https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2018/budget-in-brief/nih/index.html

  29. OVERVIEW OF THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. (2020) https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/pa/FY20-TBDRP-CDA.pdf.