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November 30, 2020Special Article

Clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Neurology, and American College of Rheumatology

2020 guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease

Paul M. Lantos, Jeffrey Rumbaugh, Linda K. Bockenstedt, Yngve T. Falck-Ytter, Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld, Paul G. Auwaerter, Kelly Baldwin, Raveendhara R. Bannuru, Kiran K. Belani, William R. Bowie, John A. Branda, David B. Clifford, Francis J. DiMario, John J. Halperin, Peter J. Krause, Valery Lavergne, Matthew H. Liang, H. Cody Meissner, Lise E. Nigrovic, James (Jay) J. Nocton, Mikala C. Osani, Amy A. Pruitt, Jane Rips, Lynda E. Rosenfeld, Margot L. Savoy, Sunil K. Sood, Allen C. Steere, Franc Strle, Robert Sundel, Jean Tsao, Elizaveta E. Vaysbrot, Gary P. Wormser, Lawrence S. Zemel
First published November 30, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000011151
Paul M. Lantos
From the Duke University School of Medicine (P.M.L.), Durham, NC; Pathway Neurology (J. Rumbaugh), Tampa, FL; Yale University (L.K.B., L.E.R.), New Haven, CT; Case Western Reserve University, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System (Y.T.F.-Y.), Cleveland; New York University School of Medicine (M.E.A.-R.), New York; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (P.G.A.), Baltimore, MD; Geisinger Medical Center (K.B.), Danville, PA; Tufts Medical Center (R.R.B., H.C.M., M.C.O., E.E.V.), Boston, MA; Childrens Hospital and Clinical of Minnesota (K.K.B.), Minneapolis; University of British Columbia (W.R.B.), Vancouver Canada; Massachusetts General Hospital (J.A.B., A.C.S.), Boston; Washington University School of Medicine (D.B.C.), St. Louis, Missouri; Connecticut Children's Medical Center (F.J.D.M., L.S.Z.), Hartford, CT; Atlantic Health System (J.J.H.), Summit, NJ; Yale School of Public Health (P.J.K.), New Haven, CT; University of Montreal (V.L.), Quebec, Canada; Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.H.L.), Boston, MA; Boston Children's Hospital (L.E.N., R.S.), Massachusetts; Medical College of Wisconsin (J.(J.)J.N.), Waowatosa; University of Pennsylvania (A.A.P.), Philadelphia; Consumer Representative (J. Rips), Omaha, NE; Temple University (M.L.S.), Philadelphia, PA; Northwell Health (S.K.S.), New York, NY; University Medical Centre Ljubljana (F.S.), Slovenia; Michigan State University (J.T.), East Lansing; and New York Medical College (G.P.W.), Valhalla.
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Clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Neurology, and American College of Rheumatology
2020 guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease
Paul M. Lantos, Jeffrey Rumbaugh, Linda K. Bockenstedt, Yngve T. Falck-Ytter, Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld, Paul G. Auwaerter, Kelly Baldwin, Raveendhara R. Bannuru, Kiran K. Belani, William R. Bowie, John A. Branda, David B. Clifford, Francis J. DiMario, John J. Halperin, Peter J. Krause, Valery Lavergne, Matthew H. Liang, H. Cody Meissner, Lise E. Nigrovic, James (Jay) J. Nocton, Mikala C. Osani, Amy A. Pruitt, Jane Rips, Lynda E. Rosenfeld, Margot L. Savoy, Sunil K. Sood, Allen C. Steere, Franc Strle, Robert Sundel, Jean Tsao, Elizaveta E. Vaysbrot, Gary P. Wormser, Lawrence S. Zemel
Neurology Nov 2020, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000011151; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000011151

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