Lyme Disease

Southeast U.S. Appears To Have a Unique Type of Lyme Disease

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 15th, 1999

The Southeast U.S. appears to have its own version of the tick-borne ailment Lyme disease that is not detectable by most standard tests, according to Medical College of Georgia, USA, researchers.

Extensive laboratory testing of 23 adults with the characteristic bull's eye rash showed that 70 percent were not infected with the spirochete known to cause Lyme disease, according to the study published in the November 1999 issue of Archives of Dermatology.

Thirty percent of patients did test positive for the spirochete, but on closer analysis, even in those patients, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi had a different protein composition than that...

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