LymeNet Europe

80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are used in agriculture. Despite recent attempts to reduce that and to encourage use of different ones in ag from the ones that people take, the rate is increasing instead. Antibiotic resistance is inevitable, as it is evolution. Until that fact is recognized, the prog...

Reading Susan's post, questioning her diagnosis, I realize there is at least one thing to be grateful for.....that I am sure of my diagnosis. It took almost three years to get it and I didn't see the tick, but had an atypical rash, which it turns out is more typical than the famous bullseye. First h...

Can someone explain to me how you can do a test comparison when the original basis for inclusion in the group was one of those tests which was assumed to be correct? They included those patients based probably on the two tier test. Wouldn't you want some independent measure rather than making assump...

Given that we know there are a multitude of strains and even other species beyond Bb ss, why would a reasonable study not look further into those so called false positives? The two tier is based on one lab strain of Bb. I think they have not done anything useful in this study and failed to follow th...

So why should we pay any attention to what Dattwyler says? He has a conflict of interest in lyme testing. The only thing he got right is that we need testing that is better than the two tier test. He knows the testing is lousy, but is still willing to be an expert witness against lyme doctors and to...

So if you don't want to find spirochetes in your culture, make sure not to give anti-TNF.

Yes, what a joke this paper is: non-cultivable bacteria cannot be cultured. Five days post treatment.

If they can find all this stuff in ticks, why can't they find it in us?

So, now I have a word to describe what is happening when my voice goes wonky, which is often: dysphonic!

Someone should remind these ignoramuses that syphilis has been rightfully called the great imitator, and why wouldn't another spirochetal disease be able to do this too. When a person with white matter lesions on the brain and an MS diagnosis gets better, demonstrated by brain scans, after lyme trea...