Lyme Disease
When Are Antibiotics for Lyme Disease Medically Necessary?
Published in MD Week, June 20th, 2008
As good weather brings people outdoors and into the woods, it also exposes them to tick bites that can result in Lyme disease, one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. A microscopic bacterial organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, carried by the Ixodes tick causes the Lyme infection. Although the incidence of Lyme disease remains low -- about 100,000 cases each year -- that's a big jump over the 16,000 cases the Center for Disease Control (CDC) noted in 1999.
The CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) have de-emphasized antibiotics in the treatment of Lyme disease.
"The IDSA released guidelines that are more...
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Source: MD Week (2008-06-20)
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