The guidelines cover three common issues faced by clinicians: management of a known tick bite, antibiotic treatment of patients with erythema migrans rash, and management of patients who remain ill following antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease. (lymedisease.org)
One monkey produced a bona fide erythema migrans rash, seen one week after tick removal (Panel B), whereas the other monkeys produced only small, diffuse erythema at the site of tick feeding (Panel C). (journals.plos.org)
Xenodiagnosis was positive for B. burgdorferi DNA in the person with erythema migrans who underwent xenodiagnosis early during therapy and in a volunteer with PTLDS. (sciencedaily.com)