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Spotted Fever Rickettsioses in

Sweden

Aspects of Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations and

Co-infections

ANDERS LINDBLOM

http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:956560/FULLTEXT01.pdf


Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2018 Oct 28. pii: S1877-959X(18)30297-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.10.007. [Epub ahead of print]

High seroprevalence of Babesia antibodies among Borrelia burgdorferi-infected humans in Sweden.

Svensson J1, Hunfeld KP2, Persson KEM3.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30389326?fbclid=IwAR1GuLgW0ovxKFozXcrcclD--CbADHF8nJOfDAENcTwHlbisARRpJpEf8XY


Co-infection of Ticks: The Rule Rather Than the Exception

Sara Moutailler, Claire Valiente Moro, Elise Vaumourin, Lorraine Michelet, Florence Hélène Tran, Elodie Devillers, Jean-François Cosson, Patrick Gasqui, Van Tran Van, Patrick Mavingui, Gwenaël Vourc’h, Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

Published: March 17, 2016http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004539

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Evaluating polymicrobial immune responses in patients suffering from tick-borne diseases

Kunal Garg, Leena Meriläinen, Ole Franz, Heidi Pirttinen, Marco Quevedo-Diaz, Stephen Croucher & Leona Gilbert

Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 15932 (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34393-9?fbclid=IwAR2suvR8Fd87vtctaRdDWrqc60PTeCgL4F4Sh6F1b1RyatNPQEfX8PkzTjU


Diagnosing Borreliosis

Sally J. Cutler,1 Nataliia Rudenko,2 Maryna Golovchenko,2 Wibke J. Cramaro,3

Josiane Kirpach,3 Sara Savic,4 Iva Christova,5 and Ana Amaro6

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Guidelines for the Detection of Rickettsia spp.

Ara´ nzazu Portillo,1 Rita de Sousa,2 Sonia Santiba´ n˜ ez,1 Ana Duarte,3 Sophie Edouard,4

Isabel P. Fonseca,3 Ca´tia Marques,3 Marketa Novakova,5,6 Ana M. Palomar,1 Marcos Santos,3

Cornelia Silaghi,7 Laura Tomassone,8 Sara Zu´ quete,3 and Jose´ A. Oteo1

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Guidelines for the Direct Detection of Anaplasma spp. in Diagnosis and Epidemiological Studies

Cornelia Silaghi,1,* Ana Sofia Santos,2,* Jacinto Gomes,3 Iva Christova,4 Ioana Adriana Matei,5

Gernot Walder,6 Ana Domingos,7 Lesley Bell-Sakyi,8 Hein Sprong,9 Friederike D. von Loewenich,10

Jose´ A. Oteo,11 Jose´ de la Fuente,12,13 and J. Stephen Dumler14,15

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Recent study on canine vector-borne zoonoses in southern Slovakia - serologic survey.

Čabanová V, Pantchev N, Hurníková Z, Miterpáková M.

Acta Parasitol. 2015 Dec 1;60(4):749-58. doi: 10.1515/ap-2015-0107.

PMID: 26408601


Coexistence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. genospecies within Ixodes ricinus ticks from central and

eastern Poland.

Sytykiewicz H, Karbowiak G, Chorostowska-Wynimko J, Szpechciński A, Supergan-Marwicz M, Horbowicz M, Szwed M,

Czerniewicz P, Sprawka I.

Acta Parasitol. 2015 Dec 1;60(4):654-61. doi: 10.1515/ap-2015-0093.

PMID: 26408587


Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and co-infections with Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia

spp. in Ixodes ricinus in Hamburg, Germany.

May K, Jordan D, Fingerle V, Strube C.

Med Vet Entomol. 2015 Dec;29(4):425-9. doi: 10.1111/mve.12125. Epub 2015 Jun 19.

PMID: 26096626


Molecular survey of tick-borne pathogens in Ixodid ticks collected from hunted wild animals in

Tuscany, Italy.

Ebani VV, Bertelloni F, Turchi B, Filogari D, Cerri D.

Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2015 Sep;8(9):714-7. doi: 10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.07.033. Epub 2015 Jul 29.

PMID: 26433656


Within-host competition between Borrelia afzelii ospC strains in wild hosts as revealed by massively

parallel amplicon sequencing.

Strandh M, Råberg L.

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2015 Aug 19;370(1675). pii: 20140293. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0293.

PMID: 26150659


Infections with Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Cytokine Responses in 2 Persons Bitten by

Ticks, Sweden.

Grankvist A, Sandelin LL, Andersson J, Fryland L, Wilhelmsson P, Lindgren PE, Forsberg P, Wennerås C.

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Aug;21(8):1462-5. doi: 10.3201/eid2108.150060.

PMID: 26197035


Current Surveys of the Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma

phagocytophilum, Leishmania infantum, Babesia canis, Angiostrongylus vasorum and Dirofilaria

immitis in Dogs in Bulgaria.

Pantchev N, Schnyder M, Vrhovec MG, Schaper R, Tsachev I.

Parasitol Res. 2015 Aug;114 Suppl 1:S117-30. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4518-8.

PMID: 26152413


Borrelia miyamotoi Disease in the Northeastern United States: A Case Series.

Molloy PJ, Telford SR 3rd, Chowdri HR, Lepore TJ, Gugliotta JL, Weeks KE, Hewins ME, Goethert HK, Berardi VP.

Ann Intern Med. 2015 Jul 21;163(2):91-8. doi: 10.7326/M15-0333.

PMID: 26053877


Erythema migrans.

Nadelman RB.

Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2015 Jun;29(2):211-39. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2015.02.001. Review.

PMID: 25999220


Molecular Detection of Fastidious and Common Bacteria as Well as Plasmodium spp. in Febrile and

Afebrile Children in Franceville, Gabon.

Mourembou G, Fenollar F, Socolovschi C, Lemamy GJ, Nzoughe H, Kouna LC, Toure-Ndouo F, Million M, Mbiguino AN,

Lekana-Douki JB, Raoult D.

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 May;92(5):926-32. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0699. Epub 2015 Mar 23.

PMID: 25802432


Motor rotation is essential for the formation of the periplasmic flagellar ribbon, cellular morphology,

and Borrelia burgdorferi persistence within Ixodes scapularis tick and murine hosts.

Sultan SZ, Sekar P, Zhao X, Manne A, Liu J, Wooten RM, Motaleb MA.

Infect Immun. 2015 May;83(5):1765-77. doi: 10.1128/IAI.03097-14. Epub 2015 Feb 17.

PMID: 25690096


Canine vector-borne infections in Mauritius.

Lee GK, Ignace JA, Robertson ID, Irwin PJ.

Parasit Vectors. 2015 Mar 23;8:174. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-0790-9.

PMID: 25889893


First arrived takes all: inhibitory priority effects dominate competition between co-infecting

Borreliaburgdorferi strains.

Devevey G, Dang T, Graves CJ, Murray S, Brisson D.

BMC Microbiol. 2015 Mar 7;15:61. doi: 10.1186/s12866-015-0381-0.

PMID: 25887119


Lyme disease update for the general dermatologist.

Godar DA, Laniosz V, Wetter DA.

Am J Clin Dermatol. 2015 Feb;16(1):5-18. doi: 10.1007/s40257-014-0108-2.

PMID: 25589049


Co-feeding transmission in Lyme disease pathogens.

Voordouw MJ.

Parasitology. 2015 Feb;142(2):290-302. doi: 10.1017/S0031182014001486. Epub 2014 Oct 8. Review.

PMID: 25295405


Infectious agents and inflammation in donated hearts and dilated cardiomyopathies related to

cardiovascular diseases, Chagas' heart disease, primary and secondary dilated cardiomyopathies.

Mangini S, Higuchi Mde L, Kawakami JT, Reis MM, Ikegami RN, Palomino SA, Pomerantzeff PM, Fiorelli AI, MarcondesBraga

FG, Bacal F, Ferreira SM, Issa VS, Souza GE, Chizzola PR, Bocchi EA.

Int J Cardiol. 2015 Jan 15;178:55-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.10.133. Epub 2014 Oct 23.

PMID: 25442238


Historic evidence to support a causal relationship between spirochetal infections and Alzheimer's

disease.

Miklossy J.

Front Aging Neurosci. 2015 Apr 16;7:46. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00046. eCollection 2015. Review.

PMID: 25932012


Clinical determinants of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis in

an Australian cohort.

Mayne PJ.

Int J Gen Med. 2014 Dec 23;8:15-26. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S75825. eCollection 2015.

PMID: 25565883


Acute diffuse and total alopecia of the female scalp associated with borrelia-infection.

Bhardwaj EK, Trüeb RM.

Int J Trichology. 2015 Jan-Mar;7(1):26-8. doi: 10.4103/0974-7753.153454.

PMID: 25878446


Vetenskapliga artiklar om TBE


Characterization of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) foci in Germany and Latvia (1997-2000).

Süss J, Schrader C, Abel U, Bormane A, Duks A, Kalnina V.

Int J Med Microbiol. 2002 Jun;291 Suppl 33:34-42.


Microclimate and the zoonotic cycle of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Switzerland.

Burri C, Bastic V, Maeder G, Patalas E, Gern L.

J Med Entomol. 2011 May;48(3):615-27.


Why is tick-borne encephalitis increasing? A review of the key factors causing the increasing incidence of human TBE in Sweden.

Jaenson TG, Hjertqvist M, Bergström T, Lundkvist A.

Parasit Vectors. 2012 Aug 31;5:184. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-184.


Peer Reviewed Evidence of Persistence of Lyme Disease Spirochete

Borrelia burgdorferi and Tick-Borne Diseases


The following is a list of over 700 peer reviewed articles that support the evidence of persistence of Lyme

and other tick-borne diseases. It is organized into different categories—general, psychiatric, dementia,

autism and congenital transmission.


General: Persistence of Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

The following section of references for persistence of Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) are listed alphabetically and chronologically:

1. Aalto A, Sjowall J, Davidsson L, Forsberg P, Smedby O. Brain magnetic resonance imaging does not contribute to the diagnosis of

chronic neuroborreliosis. Acta Radiol 2007; 48: 755-762. [white matter hyperintensities or basal ganglia lesions].

2. Abele DC and Anders KH. The many faces and phases of borreliosis. J Am Acad Dermotol 1990; 23:401-410. [chronic Lyme

borreliosis].

3. Aberer E and Klade H. Cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis. Infection 1991; 19: 284-286. [chronic Lyme borreliosis].

4. Aberer E, Breier F, Stanek G, and Schmidt B. Success and failure in the treatment of acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans skin rash.

Infection 1996; 24: 85-87.

5. Aberer E, Kersten A, Klade H, Poitschek C, Jurecka W. Heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in the skin. Am J Dermatopathol 1996;

18(6): 571-519.

6. Akin E, McHugh Gl, Flavell RA, Fikrig E, Steere AC. The immunoglobulin (IgG) antibody response to OspA and OspB correlates

with severe and prolonged Lyme arthritis and the IgG response to P35 with mild and brief arthritis. Infect Immun 1999; 67: 173-181.

7. Albert S, Schulze J, Riegel H, Brade V. Lyme arthritis in a 12-year-old patient after a latency period of 5 years. Infection 1999; 27(4-

5): 286-288.

8. Al-Robaiy S, Dihazi H, Kacza J, et al. Metamorphosis of Borrelia burgdorferi organisms―RNA, lipid and protein composition in

context with the spirochete’s shape. J Basic Microbiol 2010, 50 Suppl 1, S5-17.

9. Appel MJG, Allan S, Jacobson RH, Lauderdale TL, Chang YF, Shin SJ, Thomford JW, Todhunter RJ, and Summers BA.

Experimental Lyme disease in dogs produces arthritis and persistent infection. J Inf Dis 1993; 167: 651-664.

10. Åsbrink E, Hovmark A. Successful cultivation of spirochetes from skin lesions of patients with erythema chronicum migrans, Afzelius

and acrodermatis chronica atrophicans. Acta Pathol Microbiol Immunol Sect B 1985; 93: 161-163.

11. Åsbrink E, Hovmark A, and Olsson I. Clinical manifestations of acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans in 50 Swedish patients. Zentralbl

Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A 1986; 26: 253-261. [chronic Lyme borreliosis].

12. Asch ES, Bujak DI, Weiss M, Peterson MGE, and Weinstein A. Lyme Disease: an infectious and postinfectious syndrome. J

Rheumatol 1994; 21 (3): 451-461.

13. Bankhead T and Chaconas G. The role of VlsE antigenic variation in the Lyme disease spirochete: persistence through a mechanism

that differs from other pathogens. Molecular Microbiology 2007; 65: 1547-1558.

14. Barthold SW, Persing DH, Armstrong AL, and Peeples RA. Kinetics of Borrelia burgdorferi dissemination and evolution of disease

following intradermal inoculation of mice. Am J Pathol 1991; 139: 263-273. [in mice]

15. Barthold SW, deSouza MS, Janotka JL, Smith AL, and Persing DH. Chronic Lyme borreliosis in laboratory mouse. Am J Pathol 1993;

143: 951-971. [in mice]

16. Barthold S. Lyme borreliosis. Chapter 14, In Persistent Bacterial Infections. Edited by J.P. Nataro, M.J. Blaser, and S. CunninghamRundles,

pp 281-304. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.

17. Barthold SW, Hodzic E, Imai DM, Feng S, Yang X, and Luft BJ. Ineffectiveness of tigecycline against persistent Borrelia

burgdorferi. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010; 54(2): 643-651. [mice, rats, white-footed mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs,

rabbits, dogs, nonhuman primates, and humans]

18. Barthold SW. Global challenges in diagnosing and managing Lyme disease—closing knowledge gaps. Testimony before House

Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States Congress, 17 July 2012.

19. Battafarano DF, Combs JA, Enzenauer RJ, Fitzpatrick JE (1993) Chronic septic arthritis caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Clin Orthop

297: 238-241. doi: 10.1097/00003086-199312000-00038. [Patients with chronic septic Lyme arthritis of the knee for seven years,

despite multiple antibiotic trials and synovectomies. Bb documented in synovium and synovial fluid.]

20. Baum E, Hue F, Barbour AG (2012) Experimental infections of the reservoir species Peromyscus leuopus with diverse strains of

Borrelia burgdorferi, a Lyme disease agent. MBio 3: e00434-12. doi: 10: 10.1128/mbio.00434-12.

21. Bayer ME, Zhang L, Bayer MH. Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in the urine of treated patients with chronic Lyme disease symptoms. A

PCR study of 97 cases. Infection 1996; 24: 347-353. [97 patients who had been treated with antibiotics for extended periods of time

and had symptoms of chronic Lyme were PCR-positive.]

22. de Leeuw BHCGM, Maraha B, Hollemans L, Sprong H, Brandenburg AH, Westenend PJ, Kusters JG. Evaluation of Borrelia real

time PCR DNA targeting OspA, FlaB and 5S-23S IGS and Borrelia 16S rRNA-qPCR. Journal of Microbiological Methods (2014).

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2014.09.001.

23. Benjamin J and J Luft. Chronic Lyme disease; an evolving syndrome. 9th Annual International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease

& Other Tick-Borne Disorders. 1996.

24. Berglund J, Stjernberg L, Ornstein K, Tykesson-Joelsson K, Walter H. 5-y follow-up study of patients with neuroborreliosis. Scand. J.

Infect. Dis. 2002; 34(6): 421-425.

25. Berndtson K. Review of evidence for immune evasion and persistent infection in Lyme disease. Int J of General Medicine 2013; 6:

291-306. [Lyme disease spirochetes are adapted to persist in immune competent hosts; they are can remain infective despite

aggressive antibiotic challenge.]

26. Bloom BJ, Wyckoff PM, Meissner HC, and Steere AC. Neurocognitive abnormalities in children after classic manifestations of Lyme

disease. Pediatric Infect. Dis. J. 1998; 17(3): 189-196.

27. Bradley JF, Johnson RC, Goodman JL (1994) The persistence of spirochetal nucleic acids in active Lyme arthritis. Ann Intern Med

120: 487-489. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-120-6-199403150-00007 [human]

28. Bransfield R, Brand S, and Sherr V. Treatment of patients with persistent symptoms and a history of Lyme disease. N Engl Med 2001;

345: 1424-5.

29. Breier F, Khanakah G, Stanek G, Aberer E, Schmidt B, and Tappeiner G. Isolation and polymerase chain reaction typing of Borrelia

afzelii from a skin lesion in a seronegative patient with generalized ulcerating bullous lichen sclerosus et atrophicus. Br J Dermatol

2001; 144: 387-392.

30. Bockenstedt LK, J Mao, E Hodzic, SW Barthold, and D Fish. Detection of attenuated, non-infectious spirochetes in Borrelia

burgdorferi-infected mice after antibiotic treatment. J Infect Dis 2002; 186: 1430-1437. [in mice]

31. Bockenstedt LK, Gonzalez DG, Hamberman AM, Belperron A (2012) Spirochete antigens persist near cartilage after murine Lyme

borreliosis therapy. J Clin Invest 122: 2652-2660. doi: 10.1172/jci58813.

32. Breier F, Kkhkanakah G, Stanek G, Kunz G, Aberer E, Schmidt B, and Tappeiner G. Isolation and polymerase chain reaction of

Borrelia afzelii from a skin lesion in a seronegative patient with generalized ulcereating bullous lichen sclerosus et atrophicus. Br J

Dermatol 2001; 144: 387-392.

33. Brorson O and Brorson S-H. Transformation of cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to normal mobile spirochetes. Infection. 1997;

25: 240-246. [change in physical characteristics; change of spirochetes to other pleomorphic forms, i.e., cell wall deficient forms,

namely cysts.]

34. Brorson O and Brorson S. In vitro conversion of Borrelia burgdorferi to cystic forms in spinal fluid, and transformation to mobile

spirochetes by incubation in BSK-H medium. Infection. 1998; 26: 144-150. [change in physical characteristics; change of spirochetes

to other pleomorphic forms, i.e., cell wall deficient forms, namely cysts.]

35. Brorson O and Brorson SH. An in vitro study of the susceptibility of mobile and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to

metronidazole. APMIS 1999; 107: 566-576.

36. Brorson O and Brorson SH. An in vitro study of the susceptibility of mobile and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to tinidazole.

International Microbiol 2004; 7: 139-142.

37. Brorson O and Brorson SH. An in vitro study of the activity of telithromycin against mobile and cystic forms of Borrelia afzelii.

Infection 2006; 34: 26-28.

38. Brorson O Brorson SH, Scythes J, MacAllister J, Wier A, and Margulis L. Destruction of spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi round-body

propag ules (RBs) by the antibiotic tigecycline. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009; 106: 18656-61

39. Brown JP, Zachary JF, Teuscher C, Weis JJ, and Wooten M. Dual role of interleukin-10 in murine Lyme disease: regulation of

arthritis severity and host defense. Infect Immun 1999; 67: 5142-5150. [suppression of harmful immune responses: defense stratagem

of B. burgdorferi]

40. Burrascano J. Failure of aggressive antibiotic therapy to protect the placenta from invasion by B. burgdorferi in a pregnant patient

with Lyme borreliosis. 6th Annual International Science Conference on Lyme Disease and other Tick-borne Diseases.1993.

41. Cabello FC, Godfrey HP, and Newman SA. Hidden in plain sight: Borrelia burgdorferi and the extracellular matrix. Trends in

Microbiology 2007; 15: 350-354. [sequestration]

42. Cadavid D, O’Neill T, Schaefer H, and Pachner AR. Localization of Borrelia burgdorferi in the nervous system and organs in a

nonhuman primate model of Lyme disease. Lab Invest 2000; 80: 1043-1054.

43. Cadavid D, Y Bai, E Hodzic, K Narayan, SW Barthold, and Pachner AR. Cardiac involvement in non-human primates infected with

the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Lab Invest 2004; 84: 1439-1450. [in monkeys]

44. Cameron D, Gaito A, Harris N et al. Evidence-based guidelines for the management of Lyme disease. Expert Rev Anti-Infect. Ther

2004; 2 (Suppl. 1), S1-S13.

45. Cameron D. Results from Lyme disease treatment trial. Columbia University/LDA Conference, Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases:

Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases. October 28, 2005; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

46. Cameron DJ. Generalizability in two clinic trials of Lyme disease. Perspectives and Innovation 2006; 3(12).

[http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5573-3-12].

47. Cameron D. Severity of Lyme disease with persistent symptoms. Insights from a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Minerva Med 2008; 99: 489-496.

48. Cameron DJ. Insufficient evidence to deny antibiotic treatment to chronic Lyme disease patients. Med Hypotheses (2009),

doi:10.1016i/j.mehy.2009.01.017

49. Cameron DJ. Proof that Lyme disease exists. 2010. [http://www.hindawi.com/60587146.html].

50. Cameron DJ. Proof that chronic Lyme disease exists. Interdisciplinary Perspect Infect Dis 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/876450.

51. Chancellor MB, McGinnis DE, Shenot PJ, Kiilholma P, and Hirsch IH. Urinary dysfunction in Lyme disease. J Urol 1993; 149: 26-30.

52. Chang YK, Ku YW, Chang CF, Chang CD, McDonough SP, Divers T, Pough M, and Torres A. Antibiotic treatment of

experimentally Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ponies. Vet Microbiol 2005; 107: 285-294.

53. Chao L-L, Lu C-F, and Shih C-M. Molecular detection and genetic identification of Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii from patients

presenting with a rare skin manifestation of prurigo pigmentosa in Taiwan. Int J Infect Dis 2013,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2013.08.004.

54. Chary-Valckenaere I, Jaulhac B, Champigneulle J, Piement Y, Mainard D, and Pourel J. Ultrastructural demonstration of intracellular

localization of Borrelia burgdorferi in Lyme arthritis. Br J Rheumatol 1998; 37: 468-470.

55. Chmielewski T, Tylewlska-Wierzhanowska S. Inhibition of fibroblast apoptosis by Borrelia afzelii, Coxiella burnetii and Bartonella

henselae. Poll Microbiol 2011; 60(3); 269-272.

56. Cimmino MA, Azzolini A, Tobia F, Pesce CM. Spirochetes in the spleen of a patient with chronic Lyme disease. Am J Clin Pathol

1989; 91(1): 95-97.

57. Clarke AE, Esdaile JM, Bloch DA, Lacaille D, Danoff, and Fries JF. A Canadian study of the total medical costs for patients with

systemic lupus erythema and the predictors of costs. Arthrit. Rheum. 1993; 36(11): 1548-1593.

58. Cleveland CP, Dennler PS, Duray PH. Recurrence of Lyme disease presenting as a chest wall mass: Borrelia burgdorferi was

present despite five months of IV ceftriaxone 2 g, and three months of oral cefixime 400 mg BID. The presence of Borrelia

burgdorferi confirmed by biopsy and culture. Poster presentation at V Lyme Disease Foundation International Scientific Conference.

Stamford, CT, April 10-11, 1992.

59. Cleveland CP, and Dennler S. Case history: recurrence of Lyme disease as a chest wall mass. Abstract presented at the 1993 LDF

International Conference on Lyme Disease.

60. Coyle P. Lyme Disease. Mosby Year Book, pp. 235, 1993. St Louis, Mo. [seclusion into immune privileged sites: defense strategies of

B. burgdorferi]

61. Craft J, Fischer DK, Shimamoto GT, Steere AC. Antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi recognized during Lyme disease appearance of a

new immunoglobulin M response and expansion of the immunoglobulin G response late in the illness. J. Clin. Invest. 1986; 1978:

934-939.

62. Dattwyler RJ, Volkman DJ, Luft BJ, Halperin JJ, Thomas J, and Golightly MG. Seronegative Lyme disease. Dissociation of specific

T- and B-lymphocyte response to Borrelia burgdorferi. N Engl J Med 1988; 319(22): 1441-1446.

63. Dejmková H, D Hulinska, D Tegzová, K Pavelka, J Gatterová, and P Vavřik. Seronegative Lyme arthritis caused by Borrelia garinii.

Clin Rheumatol 2002; 21:330-334.

64. DeLong AK, Blossom B, Maloney E, and Phillips SE. Antibiotic retreatment of Lyme disease in patients with persistent symptoms: A

biostatistical review of randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials. Contemp Clin Trials 2012; epub ahead of print.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2012.08.009. [refutes Klempers {2001} conjecture that long-term antibiotics don’t work]

65. de Koning J, et al. Demonstration of spirochetes in cardiac biopsies of patients with Lyme disease. J. Infect. Dis. 1989; 160: 150-153.

[intracellular sanctuaries of Bb]

66. Demaershalck I, Messaoud AB, de Kesel M, Hoyois B, Lobet Y, Hoet P, Bigaignon G, Bollen A, and Godfroid E. Simultaneous

presence of different Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies in biological fluids of Lyme disease patients. J Clin Microbiol 1995: 33; 602-

608.

67. Diterich I, Rauter C, Kirschning CJ, and Hartung T. Borrelia burgdorferi-induced tolerance as a model of persistence via

immunosuppression. Infect Immun 2003; 71(7):3979-3987.

68. Donahue JG, Piesman J, Spielman A (1987) Reservoir competence of white-footed mice for Lyme disease spirochetes. Am J Trop

Med Hyg 36: 92-96. [persistence in white-footed mice]

69. Donta ST. Tetracycline therapy for chronic Lyme disease. Clin Inf Dis 1997; 25 (Suppl 1); S52-56.

70. Donta ST. The existence of chronic Lyme disease. Curr Treat Op Infect Dis 2001; 3: 261-262.

71. Donta ST. Late and chronic Lyme disease. Med Clin North Am 2002; 86: 341-349.

72. Donta ST. Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme disease. Med Sci Monit 2003; 9: 136-142.

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Psychiatric Symptoms and Lyme/Tick-Borne Diseases

This section is organized alphabetically by the title of the article.

A controlled study of deficits in children with chronic Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Tager, F., Fallon, B., Keilp, J, Rissenberg, M., Jones, C.R. &

Liebowitz, M. SOURCE: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2001; 13: 500-507.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis [letter] AUTHORS: Fallon BA, Nields JA. SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1998

Summer;10(3):366-7

Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease: Controversies for Neuropsychiatry AUTHORS: Hurley RA, Taber KH. SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin

Neurosci 20:1, Winter 2008 http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org

Acute and chronic pain associated with Lyme borreliosis: clinical characteristics and pathophysiologic mechanisms. AUTHORS: Zimering JH,

Williams MR, Eiras ME, Fallon BA, Logigian EL, Dworkin RH et al. SOURCE: Pain. 2014 Aug;155(8):1435-1438.

Acute and chronic neuroborreliosis with and without CNS involvement: a clinical, MRI, and HLA study of 27 cases. AUTHORS: Krüger H,

Heim E, Schuknecht B, Scholz S. SOURCE: J Neurol. 1991 Aug;238(5):271-80.

Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis With Transient Hemiparesis and Aphasia AUTHORS: Sokolov A, Lienhard R, Du Pasquier R, Véronique Erard V

SOURCE: Annals of Emergency Medicine. Published Online: February 25, 2015 http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-

0644(15)00028-1/abstract

A Girl with Seizures AUTHOR: Carla Rothaus SOURCE: NEJM. May 22nd, 2015

http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/a-girl-with-seizures/2015/05/22/comment-page-1/#comment-225701 A Groundhog, a Novel Bartonella

Sequence, and My Father’s Death AUTHORS: Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Cadenas MB, Vissotto de Paiva Diniz PP SOURCE: Emerging

Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • 2009 Aug;15(12): 2080-6 http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/15/12/pdfs/2080.pdf

Alcohol and epilepsy: A case report between alcohol withdrawal seizures and neuroborreliosis. AUTHORS: Gheorghiev C, De Montleau F,

Defuentes G SOURCE: Encephale 2011 06; 37 (3): 231-237

[Alcohol and epilepsy: a case report between alcohol withdrawal seizures and neuroborreliosis]. AUTHORS: Gheorghiev C, De Montleau F,

Defuentes G. SOURCE: Encephale. 2011 Jun;37(3):231-7.

Altered mental status, an unusual manifestation of early disseminated Lyme disease: A case report. AUTHORS: Chabria SB, Lawrason J.

SOURCE: J Med Case Reports. 2007 Aug 9;1:62.

Alzheimer's disease and infection: Do infectious agents contribute to progression of Alzheimer's disease? AUTHORS: Honjo K, van Reekum R,

Rand Nicolaas, Verhoeff NPLG. SOURCE: Alzheimer's and Dementia. Vol 5;4, July 2009, p 348-360

Alzheimer's disease - a neurospirochetosis. Analysis of the evidence following Koch's and Hill's criteria. AUTHOR: Miklossy J. SOURCE:J

Neuroinflammation. 2011 Aug 4;8(1):90. [Epub ahead of print]

Alzheimer's disease Braak Stage progressions: reexamined and redefined as Borrelia infection transmission through neural circuits. AUTHOR:

MacDonald AB. SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(5):1059-64. Epub 2006 Nov 17.

Alzheimer's neuroborreliosis with trans-synaptic spread of infection and neurofibrillary tangles derived from intraneuronal spirochetes.

AUTHOR: MacDonald AB. SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(4):822-5. Epub 2006 Oct 20.

Antibodies against OspA epitopes of Borrelia burgdorferi cross-react with neural tissue. AUTHORS: Alaedini A, Latov N. SOURCE: J

Neuroimmunol. 2005 Feb;159(1-2):192-5. Epub 2004 Nov 26.

Anti-neural antibody reactivity in patients with a history of Lyme borreliosis and persistent symptoms. AUTHORS: Stricker RB, Johnson L

SOURCE: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 24 (2010) 1025

Anti-neural antibody reactivity in patients with a history of Lyme borreliosis and persistent symptoms. AUTHORS: Volkman D SOURCE:

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 24 (2010) A Review of Death Certificates Listing Lyme Disease as a Cause of Death in the United States.

AUTHORS: Kugeler KJ, Griffith KS, Gould LH et al. SOURCE: Clin Infect Dis. (2011) 52 (3), 364-367. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciq157

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/3/364.full.pdf http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/3/364.long

The association between tick-borne infections, Lyme borreliosis and autism spectrum disorders AUTHORS: Bransfield RC, Wulfman JS,

Harvey WT, Usman AI. SOURCE: Medical Hypotheses. 5 Nov 2007

Association of Lyme Disease and Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type: Is it Inflammation Mediated? AUTHORS: Mattingley DW, Koola

MM. SOURCE: Indian J Psychol Med. 2015 Apr-Jun;37(2):243-6.

Audiologic manifestations of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome AUTHORS: Shotland LI, Mastrioanni MA, Choo DL,

Szymko-Bennett YM, Dally LG, Pikus AT, Sledjeski K, Marques A SOURCE: Ear Hear. 2003 Dec;24(6):508-17

Autism and Lyme Disease AUTHORS: Robert C. Bransfield, MD, Mason Kuhn, MS. SOURCE: JAMA. 2013;310(8):856

doi:10.1001/jama.2013.194747

A woman in her 50s with manic psychosis. AUTHORS: Pasareanu AR, Mygland Å, Kristensen Ø. SOURCE: Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2012

Mar 6;132(5):537-9

Bartonella henselae bacteremia in a mother and son potentially associated with tick exposure AUTHORS: Maggi RG, Ericson M,

Mascarelli PE, Bradley JM, Breitschwerdt EB SOURCE: Parasites & Vectors April 2013, 6:101 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-101

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-101

Bartonella henselae infection in a family experiencing neurological and neurocognitive abnormalities after woodlouse hunter spider bites

AUTHORS: Mascarelli PE, Maggi RG, Hopkins S, Mozayeni BR, Trull CL, Bradley JM, Hegarty BC, Breitschwerdt EB SOURCE: Parasites

& Vectors 2013, 6:98 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-98 http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/6/1/98/abstract

Bartonella sp. Bacteremia in Patients with Neurological and Neurocognitive Dysfunction. AUTHORS: Journal of Clinical Midrobiology.

46(9):2856–2861 SOURCE: Breitschwerdt EB. Maggi RG, Nicholson WL, Cherry NA, Woods CW.

The basic syndromes of neurological disorders in Lyme borreliosis: AUTHORS: Dekonenko EP, Umanskii KG, Virich IE, Kupriianova LV,

Rudometov, IuP, Bagrov FI: SOURCE: Ter Arkh 1995; 67 (11) : 52-53

Benefit of intravenous antibiotic therapy in patients referred for treatment of neurologic Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Stricker RB, Delong AK,

Green CL, Savely VR, Chamallas SN, Johnson L SOURCE: Int J Gen Med 2011 9; 4 : 639-646

Behavioral Consequences of Infections of the Central Nervous System: With Emphasis on Viral Infections. AUTHORS: Tselis A, MD, Booss J.

SOURCE: J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 31:289–98, 2003

Beta-amyloid deposition and Alzheimer's type changes induced by Borrelia spirochetes. AUTHORS: Miklossy J, Kis A, Radenovic A, Miller L,

Forro L, Martins R, Reiss K, Darbinian N, Darekar P, Mihaly L, Khalili K. SOURCE: Neurobiol Aging. 2006 Feb;27(2):228-36.

Bell’s Palsy of the Gut and other Manifestations of Lyme and Associated Diseases. AUTHOR: Sherr VT SOURCE: Practical Gastroenterology

April 2006

Benefit of intravenous antibiotic therapy in patients referred for treatment of neurologic Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Stricker RB, DeLong AK,

Green C, Savely VR, Chamallas SN, Johnson L. SOURCE: International Journal of General Medicine 2011:4 639–646

http://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=8224.

Bilateral dorsolateral thalamic lesions disrupts conscious recollection. AUTHORS: Edelstyn NM, Hunter B, Ellis SJ. SOURCE:

Neuropsychologia. 2006;44(6):931-8. Epub 2005 Oct 25.

Biology and neuropathology of dementia in syphilis and Lyme disease. AUTHOR: MIKLOSSY J EDITORS: Duyckaerts C, Litvan I

SOURCE: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 89 (3rd series) Dementias 2008 Elsevier B.V.

http://www.miklossy.ch/media/ChapterHandbookClinNeurolFinalPdf.pdf

Borrelia Burgdorferi: A Clinical Chameleon AUTHORS: Samuel B, Axelband J, Mckim K, Leh D. SOURCE: Consultant. 2015;55(7):530-535.

http://www.consultant360.com/articles/borrelia-burgdorferi-clinical-chameleon

Borrelia burgdorferi: Cell Biology and Clinical Manifestations in Latent Chronic Lyme. AUTHORS: Smith AJ, Oertle J, Prato D SOURCE:

Open Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol.4 No.4, December 2014

http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51411#.VJDlHivF9M1

Borrelia burgdorferi in the central nervous system: experimental and clinical evidence for early invasion. AUTHORS: Garcia-Monco JC, Villar

BF, Alen JC, Benach JL. SOURCE: J Infect Dis. 1990 Jun;161(6):1187-93.

Borrelia burgdorferi central nervous system infection presenting as an organic schizophrenialike disorder. AUTHORS: Hess A, Buchmann J,

Zettl UK, Henschel S, Schlaefke D, Grau G, Benecke R. SOURCE: Biol Psychiatry 1999 Mar 15;45(6):795

Borrelia burgdorferi in the nervous system: the new "great imitator". AUTHOR: Pachner AR. SOURCE: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1988;539:56-64.

Borrelia burgdorferi persists in the brain in chronic lyme neuroborreliosis and may be associated with Alzheimer disease. AUTHORS: Miklossy

J, Khalili K, Gern L, Ericson RL, Darekar P, Bolle L, Hurlimann J, Paster BJ. SOURCE: J Alzheimers Dis. 2004 Dec;6(6):639-49; discussion

673-81.

Borrelia burgdorferi-seropositive chronic encephalomyelopathy: Lyme neuroborreliosis? An autopsied report. AUTHORS: Kobayashi K,

Mizukoshi C, Aoki T, Muramori F, Hayashi M, Miyazu K, Koshino Y, Ohta M, Nakanishi I, Yamaguchi N. SOURCE: Dement Geriatr Cogn

Disord. 1997 Nov-Dec;8(6):384-90.

[Borreliosis--simultaneous Lyme carditis and psychiatric disorders--case report] AUTHORS: Legatowicz-Koprowska M, Gziut AI, Walczak E,

Gil RJ, Wagner T. SOURCE: Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2008 May;24(143):433-5. Polish.

Brain SPECT Imaging in Chronic Lyme Disease. AUTHORS: Plutchok JJ, Tikofsky RS, Liegner KB, Fallon BA, Van Heertum RL. SOURCE:

Journal of Spirochetal and Tick Borne-Diseases, 1999; 6: 10-16.

Can infections and immune reactions to them cause violent behavior? AUTHOR: Bransfield RC SOURCE: Abstracts of 11th

Psychoimmunology Expert Meeting, March 8–11, 2012

Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research. Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 42 (March 2012)

Carbamazepine in the treatment of Lyme disease-induced hyperacusis. AUTHORS: Nields JA, Fallon BA, Jastreboff PJ. SOURCE: J

Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1999 Winter;11(1):97-9

A case of meningoencephalitis by the relapsing fever spirochaete Borrelia miyamotoi in Europe. AUTHORS: Hovius JWR et al. SOURCE:

www.thelancet.com Vol 382 August 17, 2013

Case report: Lyme disease and complex partial seizures. AUTHOR: Bransfield RC. SOURCE: Journal of Spirochetes and Tick-borne Diseases;

Fall/Winter 1999, Vol 6, p123-125

Case Shows How Lyme Disease Can Mimic New-Onset Panic Disorder. AUTHOR: Sinclair L SOURCE: Psychiatric News. 2013 Vol 48(13)1

DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2013.6b19 http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=1700960

Catatonia in a 14 year-old girl: treatment with clorazepam and carbamazepine, a 10-year follow-up]. AUTHORS: Askenazy F, Dor E, Benoit M,

Dupuis G, Serret S, Myquel M, Seddiki Y. SOURCE: Encephale. 2010 Feb;36(1):46-53.

Catatonic syndrome in acute severe encephalitis due to Borrelia burgdorferi infection.

Pfister HW, Preac-Mursic V, Wilske B, Rieder G, Forderreuther S, Schmidt S, AUTHORS: Kapfhammer HP. SOURCE: Neurology. 1993

Feb;43(2):433-5.

Central nervous system manifestations of human ehrlichiosis. AUTHORS: Ratnasamy N, Everett ED, Roland WE, McDonald G, Caldwell CW.

SOURCE: Clin Infect Dis 1996 Aug;23(2):314-9

Central nervous system manifestations of Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Pachner AR, Duray P, Steere AC. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 1989

Jul;46(7):790-5.

Cerebral metabolic changes associated with Lyme disease AUTHORS: Newberg A, Hassan A, Alavi A. SOURCE: Nucl Med Commun 2002

August;23(8):773-777

Chronic Bacterial and Viral Infections in Neurodegenerative and Neurobehavioral Diseases. AUTHORS: Nicholson GL. SOURCE: Lab

Medicine. 2008;39(5):291-9.

Chronic borrelia encephalomyeloradiculitis with severe mental disturbance: immunosuppressive versus antibiotic therapy. AUTHORS:

Kollikowski HH, Schwendemann G, Schulz M, Wilhelm H, Lehmann HJ. SOURCE: J Neurol. 1988 Jan;235(3):140-2.

Chronic central nervous system involvement in Lyme borreliosis. AUTHORS: Kohler J, Kern U, Kasper J, Rhese-Küpper B, Thoden U.

SOURCE: Neurology. 1988 Jun;38(6):863-7.

Chronic inflammation and amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer's disease -- role of Spirochetes. AUTHORS: Miklossy J. SOURCE: J Alzheimers Dis.

2008 May;13(4):381-91. Review.

Chronic Lyme Disease Linked to ADHD in Adults. AUTHOR: Young JL SOURCE: American Psychiatric Association's 2012 Annual Meeting.

Medscape. May 08,2012. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/763458

Chronic neuroborreliosis in infancy. AUTHORS: Zamponi N, Cardinali C, Tavoni MA, Porfiri L, Rossi R, Manca A. SOURCE: Ital J Neurol

Sci (1999) 20:303-307

Chronic neurologic manifestations of erythema migrans borreliosis. AUTHORS: Ackermann R, Rehse-Kupper B, Gollmer E, Schmidt R.

SOURCE: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1988;539:16-23.

Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Steere AC. SOURCE: N Engl J Med. 1990 Nov

22;323(21):1438-44.

Chronic or late lyme neuroborreliosis: analysis of evidence compared to chronic or late neurosyphilis. AUTHORS: Miklossy J. SOURCE: Open

Neurol J 2012; 6: 146-57.

Chronic or Late Lyme Neuroborreliosis: Present and Future. AUTHORS: Miklossy J, Donta S, Mueller K, Nolte O, Perry G. SOURCE: The

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Clinical and demographic characteristics of psychiatric patients seropositive for Borrelia burgdorferi. AUTHORS: Hájek T, Libiger J, Janovská

D, Hájek P, Alda M, Höschl C. SOURCE: Eur Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;21(2):118-22.

[Clinical manifestations and epidemiological aspects leading to a diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: neurological and psychiatric manifestations in

the course of Lyme borreliosis] AUTHORS: Créange A. SOURCE: Med Mal Infect. 2007 Jul-Aug;37(7-8):532-9. Epub 2007 Mar 26. Review.

French.

Co-existance of toxoplasmosis and neuroborreliosis - a case report. AUTHORS: Gustaw K, Beltowska K, Dlugosz E. SOURCE: Ann Agric

Environ Med. 2005;12(2):305-8.

Coexisting of borreliosis, depression and psoriasis--case report. AUTHORS: Oglodek E, Mos D, Araszkiewicz A. SOURCE: Pol Merkur

Lekarski. 2010 Jan;28(163):53-5.

Cognitive functioning in late Lyme borreliosis. AUTHORS: Krupp LB, Masur D, Schwartz J, Coyle PK, Langenbach LJ, Fernquist SK, Jandorf

L, Halperin JJ. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 1991 Nov;48(11):1125-9.

Cognitive Impairments after Tick-borne Encephalitis. AUTHORS: Gustaw-Rothenberg K. SOURCE: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive

Disorders. 2008;26:165-168.

Cognitive processing speed in Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Pollina DA, Sliwinski M, Squires NK, Krupp LB. SOURCE: Neuropsychiatry

Neuropsychol Behav Neurol. 1999 Jan;12(1):72-8.

Complaints attributed to chronic Lyme disease: depression or fibromyalgia? AUTHORS: Berman DS, Wenglin BD. SOURCE: Am J Med. 1995

Oct;99(4):440.

Concepts of trust among patients with serious illness. AUTHORS: Mechanic D, Meyer S. SOURCE: Soc Sci Med. 2000 Sep;51(5):657-68.

Concurrent infection of the central nervous system by Borrelia burgdorferi and Bartonella henselae: evidence for a novel tick-borne disease

complex. AUTHORS: Eskow E, Rao RV, Mordechai E. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 2001 Sep;58(9):1357-63.

Concurrent Lyme disease and babesiosis. Evidence for increased severity and duration of illness. AUTHORS: Krause PJ, Telford SR 3rd,

Spielman A, Sikand V, Ryan R, Christianson D, Burke G, Brassard P, Pollack R, Peck J, Persing DH. SOURCE: JAMA. 1996 Jun

5;275(21):1657-60.

Concurrent medical conditions with pediatric bipolar disorder. AUTHORS: Scheffer RE, Linden S SOURCE: Curr Opin Psychiatry. (2007)

20(4), 398-401. Review.

Concurrent neocortical borreliosis and Alzheimer's disease: Demonstration of a spirochetal cyst form. AUTHOR: MacDonald AB. SOURCE:

Ann N Y Acad Sci 1988; 539:468-470.

Concurrent medical conditions with pediatric bipolar disorder. AUTHORS: Scheffer RE, Linden S. SOURCE: Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2007

Jul;20(4):398-401. Review.

Consequences of treatment delay in Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Cameron DJ SOURCE: J Eval Clin Pract. 2007 Jun;13(3):470-2.

Constipation Heralding Neuroborreliosis AUTHORS: Shamim A, Shamim S; Liss G; Nylen E; Pincus J; Yepes M. SOURCE: Arch Neurol.

2005;62:671-673.

A Controlled Study of Cognitive Deficits in Children With Chronic Lyme Disease AUTHORS: Tager FA, Fallon BA, Keilp J, Rissenberg M,

Jones CR, Liebowitz MR. SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 13:500-507, November 2001

FULL TEXT: http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/Tager.pdf

Correlates of Perceived Health-Related Quality of Life in Post-treatment Lyme Encephalopathy. Authors: Chandra AM, Keilp JG, Fallon BA

Source: Psychosomatics 2013(Jul)

Psychosomatics. 2013 Jul 9. pii: S0033-3182(13)00078-9. doi:10.1016/j.psym.2013.04.003. [Epub ahead of print]

Delirium and Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Caliendo MV, Kushon DJ, Helz JW. SOURCE: Psychosomatics. 1995 Jan-Feb;36(1):69-74.

Delusional disorders in the course of tick-born encephalitis and borreliosis in patients with hemophilia A and posttraumatic epilepsy--diagnostic

and therapeutic difficulties] AUTHORS: Grzywa A, Karakuła H, Górecka J, Chuchra M. SOURCE: Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2004 Jan;16(91):60-

3. Polish.

Dementia associated with infectious diseases. AUTHOR: Almeida OP, Lautenschlager NT. SOURCE: Int Psychogeriatr. 2005;17 Suppl 1:S65-

77. Review.

Demyelinating polyradiculitis in neuro borreliosis: AUTHORS: Corral I, Sanchis G, Garcia-Ribas G, Quereda C, Escudero R, de Blas G:

SOURCE: Neurologia 1995 Feb; 10 (2) : 110-113

Detection of Bartonella henselae by polymerase chain reaction in brain tissue of an immunocompromised patient with multiple enhancing lesions.

Case report and review of the literature. AUTHORS: George TI, Manley G, Koehler JE, Hung VS, McDermott M, Bollen A. SOURCE: J

Neurosurg. 1998 Oct;89(4):640-4. Review.

Diagnosis of Infectious or Inflammatory Psychosyndromes. AUTHOR: Bechter K. SOURCE: The Open Neurology Journal, 2012, 6:113-118.

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The diagnosis of Lyme disease. AUTHOR: Bransfield RC. SOURCE: Hosp Pract (Minneap). 1996 Aug 15;31(8):35, 40.

Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease. AUTHOR: Bransfield RC. SOURCE: JAMA. 1998 Sep 23-30;280(12):1049; author

reply 1051.

Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease with Special Reference to Psychiatric Practice. AUTHORS: Nields JA, Fallon BA.

SOURCE: Directions in Psychiatry, 1998, 18: 209-228.

Differential Diagnosis and the Suspension of Judgment. AUTHOR: Ashley Graham Kennedy* SOURCE: J Med Philos (2013) doi:

10.1093/jmp/jht043 First published online: August 29, 2013 http://jmp.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/08/28/jmp.jht043

[Differential diagnostic problems in Lyme disease (Borrelia infection resulting in acute exogenous psychosis)] AUTHORS: Császár T,

Patakfalvi A. SOURCE: Orv Hetil. 1994 Oct 9;135(41):2269-71.

A disease in disguise. Lyme can masquerade as migraine, or as madness. AUTHORS: Cowley G, Underwood A. SOURCE: Newsweek. 2004

Aug 23;144(8):62.

Divergent Opinions of Proper Lyme Disease Diagnosis and Implications For Children Co-Morbid with Autism Spectrum Disorder. AUTHORS:

Kuhn M, Bransfield RC. SOURCE: Medical Hypotheses Accepted: June 6, 2014; Published Online: June 16, 2014. http://www.medicalhypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(14)00233-3/abstract

Do bartonella infections cause agitation, panic disorder, and treatment-resistant depression? AUTHORS: Schaller JL, Burkland GA, Langhoff

PJ. SOURCE: MedGenMed. 2007 Sep 13;9(3):54.

Does process-specific slowing account for cognitive deficits in Lyme disease? AUTHORS: Pollina DA, Elkins LE, Squires NK, Scheffer SR,

Krupp LB. SOURCE: Appl Neuropsychol. 1999;6(1):27-32.

Early disseminated Lyme disease: Lyme meningitis. AUTHOR: Pachner AR SOURCE: Am J Med; (1995) 98(4A):30S-37S

Early-life programming of later-life brain and behavior: a critical role for the immune system. AUTHORS: Staci D. BilboSD, Jaclyn M. Schwarz

JM. SOURCE: Frontiers in Behvrioral Neurosciences. 2009:3

Efficacy of a long-term antibiotic treatment in patients with a chronic Tick Associated Poly-organic Syndrome (TAPOS). AUTHOR: Clarissou J,

Song A, Bernede C, Guillemot D, Dinh A, Ader F, Perronne C, Salomon J. SOURCE: Med Mal Infect. 2009 Feb;39(2):108-15. Epub 2009 Jan

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Elevated cerebrospinal fluid kynurenic acid levels in patients with tick-borne encephalitis. AUTHORS: Holtze M, Mickiene´ A. Atlas A,

Lindquist L, Schwieler L. SOURCE: Journal of Internal Medicine. 2012, 272; 394–401.

Emerging infectious determinants of chronic diseases. AUTHORS: O'Connor SM, Taylor CE, Hughes JM. SOURCE: Emerg Infect Dis. 2006

Jul;12(7):1051-7.

Endogenous paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome caused by Borrelia encephalitis AUTHORS: Barnett W, Sigmund D, Roelcke U, Mundt C.

SOURCE: Nervenarzt 1991 Jul;62(7):445-7 [German]

Epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory findings of human ehrlichiosis in the United States, 1988. AUTHORS: Eng TR, Harkess JR, Fishbein

DB, Dawson JE, Greene CN, Redus MA, Satalowich FT. SOURCE: JAMA 1990 Nov 7;264(17):2251-8

Etiopathogenesis of autism spectrum disorders: Fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. AUTHORS: Gentile I, Zappulo E, Militerni R, Pascotto

A, Borgia G, Bravaccio C. SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2013 Jul;81(1):26-35. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.04.002. Epub 2013 Apr 25.

European neuroborreliosis: quality of life 30 months after treatment. AUTHORS: Eikeland R, Mygland A, Herlofson K, Ljøstad U. SOURCE:

Acta Neurol Scand. 2011Nov;124(5):349-54.

[Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid serotonin (5-HT) concentration in patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome--preliminary study] AUTHORS:

Kepa L, Oczko-Grzesik B, Badura-Glombik T. SOURCE: Przegl Epidemiol. 2008;62(4):793-800. Polish.

Evidence for Mycoplasma, ssp., Chalmydia pneumoniae, and Human Herpes-virus 6 Coinfections in Blood of patients with Autistic Spectrum

Disorders. AUTHORS: Nicholson GL, Gann R, Nicholson NL, Haier J. SOURCE: Journal of Neuroscience Research 2007 85.

Failure of tetracycline therapy in early Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Dattwyler RJ, Halperin JJ. SOURCE: Arthritis Rheum. 1987 Apr;30(4):448-

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Additional Articles:

Aggression and Lyme Disease, Bransfield R.

All In Your Head? Bransfield R.

A Tale of Two Spirochetes, Bransfield R.

Lyme Disease and Cognitive Impairments, Bransfield R.

Lyme, Depression, and Suicide, Bransfield R.

Lyme Neuroborreliosis and Aggression, Bransfield RC.

14th International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorder. April 21-23, 2001

Microbes and Mental Illness, Bransfield R.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Infectious Encephalopathies, Bransfield R.

Sex and Lyme Disease, Bransfield R.

Spirochetes on the Brain, Bransfield R.

The Klempner Article, Bransfield R. Brand R.

The Lyme-Autism Connection: Unveiling the Shocking Link Between

Lyme Disease and Childhood Developmental Disorders. Duncan T, Rosner B (2008)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976379759?ie=UTF8&tag=lymeinfo-

20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0976379759

The Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Lyme Disease. Bransfield R.

www.mentalhealthandillness.com/tnaold.html http://www.anapsid.org/lyme/bransfield-neuropsych.pdf

The Psychotropic Management of Late-Stage Lyme and Associated Diseases. Bransfield R.

What Causes Illness and Mental Illness? Bransfield R.

Some of the above references and additional articles are also listed online at:

Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease Online Resources: http://www.lymeinfo.net/neuropsych.html

And Cavete Diagnosen (Cavete, lat.: hütet euch davor, d.h. hier: vor diesen Diagnosen): http://www.erlebnishaft.de/cavete_diagnosen.pdf

http://www.erlebnishaft.de/kommentalternativ.pdf Compiled by Robert Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA, Rutgers, RWJ Medical School, September

2015

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