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19 Aug 2019

Johns Hopkins study shows large number of false Lyme diagnoses and unnecessary treatments

by LymeScience Editor | | 0

Results of 1261 patients who visited Johns Hopkins for presumptive Lyme disease from 2000 to 2013: 72% had no Lyme disease, but 84% of the patients with no Lyme disease received unnecessary antibiotics

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Data source: Kobayashi T, et al. Misdiagnosis of Lyme Disease With Unnecessary Antimicrobial Treatment Characterizes Patients Referred to an Academic Infectious Diseases Clinic. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019;6(7)

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