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Lyme Disease Diagnosed by Alternative Methods: A Phenotype Similar to That of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Author(s) -
David M. Patrick,
Ruth R. Miller,
Jennifer L. Gardy,
Shoshana Parker,
Muhammad Morshed,
Theodore S. Steiner,
Joel Singer,
Kam Shojania,
Patrick Tang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ470
Subject(s) - medicine , lyme disease , serology , chronic fatigue syndrome , lyme , immunology , borrelia burgdorferi , disease , physical therapy , antibody
A subset of patients reporting a diagnosis of Lyme disease can be described as having alternatively diagnosed chronic Lyme syndrome (ADCLS), in which diagnosis is based on laboratory results from a nonreference Lyme specialty laboratory using in-house criteria. Patients with ADCLS report symptoms similar to those reported by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

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