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Management of Chronic Symptoms of Lyme Disease With Intravenous Ceftriaxone
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Management of Chronic Symptoms of Lyme Disease With Intravenous Ceftriaxone

Muhammad Naeem, Derek Enos, Shazia Shah, Nidhi Patel and Tara Fisher
Curēus (Palo Alto, CA), v 13(7), 16354
13 Jul 2021
PMID: 34395132
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https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16354View
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Abstract

Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Medical Education
Lyme disease is a vector-borne illness of North America and Europe transmitted by Borrelia burgdorferi, over 30,000 cases are reported in the United States yearly. Patients typically present having early localized disease with fevers, headaches, myalgias, and a single erythema migrans. Usually, oral doxycycline is administered with a good disease prognosis but we report the case of a 58-year-old male who presented with Lyme disease diagnosed by immunoassay; he was treated with doxycycline but was refractory and saw an improvement in his symptoms with IV ceftriaxone.

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