Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John J. Halperin
  • Ticks : the vectors of Lyme disease / Robert P. Smith
  • Borrelia : biology of the organism / Alvaro Toledo, Jorge L. Benach
  • Borrelia : interactions with the host immune system / Raymond J. Dattwyler and Kirk Sperber
  • Laboratory diagnostic testing for borrelia burgdorferi infection / Barbara J.B. Johnson
  • Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection after antibiotic treatment : what can we learn from animal models? / Joppe W.R. Hovius and Gary P. Wormser
  • Global epidemiology of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections / Paul S. Mead
  • Antibiotic therapy for infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato / Gary P. Wormser
  • Lyme borreliosis in the UK and Ireland / Susan O'Connell
  • Lyme borreliosis : the European perspective / Gerold Stanek and Franc Strle
  • Erythema migrans / Robert B. Nadelman
  • Cardiac involvement / Joseph M. Harburger, Jonathan L. Halperin
  • Rheumatologic involvement / Leonard H. Sigal
  • Nervous system involvement / John J. Halperin
  • Lyme disease in children / Eugene D. Shapiro
  • The psychology of "post-Lyme disease syndrome" and "not Lyme" / Afton L. Hassett and Leonard H. Sigal
  • Chronic Lyme disease / Adriana Marques
  • Lyme disease : the great controversy / John J. Halperin, Phillip J. Baker and Gary P. Wormser.