Lyme Science Blog
Dr. Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH, is a nationally recognized leader for his expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. His weekly Lyme Disease Science blog features articles covering the latest research, insights and case reviews.
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Young boy develops Powassan encephalitis after camping trip
This summer, a 9-year-old boy in Canada developed Powassan virus encephalitis, a life-threatening condition. In Pennsylvania, another young child was
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Why Treating Lyme Disease Is More Complex Than You Think
By 1990, I had started prescribing intravenous ceftriaxone (Rocephin), based on emerging reports of its effectiveness in chronic neurologic Lyme
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Is It Lyme Disease? Unexpected Symptoms of Lyme disease
Case Study: Unexplained Foot Pain One of my patients experienced severe foot pain, even while walking to the bathroom. A
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Rifampin for Lyme Disease: When Doxycycline Isn’t Enough
When I first began treating Lyme disease in 1987, the primary antibiotic prescribed was doxycycline. This choice was driven by
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Don’t wait for a positive Lyme disease test
My patient took a “bury-your-head-in-the-sand” approach towards Lyme disease, which did not help him. He had been ill for more
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Dissociative amnesia in a patient with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome
Investigators describe the case of a 41-year-old patient, diagnosed with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), who, in addition to exhibiting
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Case studies: Babesia patients infected with Bartonella
“Droplet digital PCR assays (ddPCRs) were developed and validated in our laboratory to enhance the sensitivity of detection of Babesia,
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Chronic Lyme patient treated successfully with low dose Flagyl
A 55-year-old man developed numbness and burning in his legs, numbness in his hands, tinnitus, extreme weakness, intense pain, cramps
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Facial paralysis due to Lyme disease initially attributed to a virus
The patient was admitted to the emergency department for acute back pain that had been progressively worsening over an 8-week