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Study shows doctors can misdiagnose Lyme disease
Diagnosing Lyme disease can be extremely challenging as the disease mimics many other illnesses and testing is not always accurate. The authors of a new study, Accuracy of Clinician Suspicion of Lyme Disease in the Emergency Department, discovered this firsthand as they examined “the accuracy of clinician suspicion for Lyme disease in children undergoing evaluation for Lyme disease.” [1]
Single dose of doxycycline for Lyme disease led to poor outcome for 61-year-old man
Ever wonder what the outcome might be if a patient were prescribed a single dose of oral doxycycline for Lyme disease? Not so good, according to a case report by Ebner and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. [1]