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Lyme Disease Diagnosed by Alternative Methods: A Phenotype Similar to That of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Oct 2015
Patrick David M, Miller Ruth R, Gardy Jennifer L, Parker Shoshana M, Morshed Muhammad G, Steiner Theodore S, Singer Joel, Shojania Kam, Tang Patrick
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BACKGROUND: 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). METHODS: We performed a...
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