I’d like to draw your attention to a treasure trove of recently published journal articles about Lyme disease and related illnesses.

Healthcare is an international, peer-reviewed, online scientific journal. It’s also open access, which mean anybody can read it for free.

(Some journals put their articles behind hefty paywalls, making them largely inaccessible to the Lyme patient community.)

Healthcare’s special issue on Lyme Disease and Related Tick-borne Infections includes such diverse topics as a new test for tick-borne relapsing fever, Lyme-related psychiatric illness, and problems faced by families with Lyme disease.

You can read them online or download individual ones for future reference.

Links to articles

Line Immunoblot Assay for Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever and Findings in Patient Sera from Australia, Ukraine and the USA

Parenting When Children Have Lyme Disease: Fear, Frustration, Advocacy

Mixed Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori Biofilms in Morgellons Disease Dermatological Specimens†

Risk Factors of Lyme Disease: An Intersection of Environmental Ecology and Systems Science

Presence of Babesia odocoilei and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto in a Tick and Dual Parasitism of Amblyomma inornatum and Ixodes scapularis on a Bird in Canada

Extensive Distribution of the Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, in Multiple Tick Species Parasitizing Avian and Mammalian Hosts across Canada

Differentiating Psychosomatic, Somatopsychic, Multisystem Illnesses and Medical Uncertainty

Proposed Lyme Disease Guidelines and Psychiatric Illnesses

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s Vice-President and Director of Communications. She is co-author of “When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide.” Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.