Your primary care doctor or an infectious disease doctor is the most qualified to help if you suspect you may have Lyme disease or have not recovered after having Lyme disease. If you have severe ...

The duration of antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease has been increasing in clinical practice. In this double-blind trial, researchers randomized 180 patients (minimum age, 16) with annular ...

Lyme disease is increasing in both incidence and geographic distribution. Given that the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is difficult to culture in routine clinical laboratories, there has ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with some estimates putting the number of people diagnosed and treated in the U.S. at 476,000 people a year, according to the Centers for ...

Luckily, there are many ways to protect your dog from Lyme disease. “My primary recommendation is tick prevention,” Stone ...