Practice Guidelines for Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and
affects humans and animals.
Links on this page labeled "MEDLINE" are links to citations of medical and scientific articles from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLINE database.
Table of Contents
MEDLINE "search links" for guidelines for Lymne disease
IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease
Other guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease
Other guidelines resources
For more information on Lyme disease
Practice Guidelines for Lyme Disease
MEDLINE "search links" for guidelines for Lymne disease
MEDLINE - guidelines AND treatment AND Lyme disease - 37 on 2 Nov 99
MEDLINE - Practice guidelines AND Lyme disease - 8 on 4 Sep 99
MEDLINE - NIH guidelines AND Lyme disease - 1 on 2 Nov 99
MEDLINE - Clinical Protocols AND Lyme disease - 13 on 6 Mar 00
IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease
IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment Lyme Disease, Wormser et al., CID 2000;31:000 [html]
Table 1. Categories indicating the strength of each recommendation for or against use.
Table 2. Grades indicating the quality of evidence on which recommendations are based.
Table 3. Recommended antimicrobial regimens for treatment of patients with Lyme disease.
Table 4. Recommended therapy for patients with Lyme disease.
IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment Lyme Disease, Wormser et al., CID 2000;31:000 [pdf]
No evidence chronic Lyme disease exists, scientists say, FoxNews, 8 Sep 00
IDSA News Release: Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Lyme Disease, 23 Aug 00
Practice Guidelines for IDs: Rationale for a Work in Progress, CID 1998, [Luft ref, large pdf file]
Infectious Disease News: IDSA develops treatment options for Lyme disease [Luft, et al.], Dec 97
Potential for ...guidelines to impact ...antimicrobial agent use, Infect Dis Clin N. Am. 1997 Dec
Ben Luft presented the IDSA practice guidelines for Lyme Disease, September 14, 1997
IDSA Council Mtgs, Apr and Jul 1996 [practice guidelines, Lyme disease, and Benjamin Luft]
IDSA Practice Guidelines
Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)
Other guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease
LD Guidelines for MN Clinicians: Epidemiology, Microbiology, Diagnosis,Treatment and Prevention
Guidelines for Lab Evaluation in Diagnosis of LD - Part 1, AIM 15 Dec 97 [not recommended]
Guidelines for Lab Evaluation in Diagnosis of LD - Part 2, AIM 15 Dec 97 [not recommended]
How to Diagnose and Treat Lyme Disease in Children, Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), 1992
Other guidelines resources
National Guideline Clearinghouse - with search function
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text - Search the AHCPR Guidelines
AHCPR Guidelines - Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, formerly AHCPR) Home Page
About AHRQ
Clinical Practice Guidelines
For more information on Lyme disease see:
Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease
Comments or questions concerning this page should be directed to
Art Doherty.
Last updated on 21 September 2000
Art Doherty
Lompoc, California
doherty@utech.net