Letters
Reply to letter by Volkman commenting on the possible onset of seronegative disease in Lyme arthritis
First published: 30 December 2008
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- 1
Volkman DJ.
Seronegative disease after inadequate therapy in Lyme arthritis: comment on the article by Kannian et al [letter].
Arthritis Rheum
2008;
58:
2212–3.
- 2
Kannian P,
McHugh G,
Johnson BJ,
Bacon RM,
Glickstein LJ,
Steere AC.
Antibody responses to Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with antibiotic-refractory, antibiotic-responsive, or non–antibiotic-treated Lyme arthritis.
Arthritis Rheum
2007;
56:
4216–25.
- 3
Dattwyler RJ,
Volkman DJ,
Luft BJ,
Halperin JJ,
Thomas J,
Golightly MG.
Seronegative Lyme disease: dissociation of the specific T- and B-lymphocyte responses to Borrelia burgdorferi.
N Engl J Med
1988;
319:
1441–6.
- 4
Steere AC,
McHugh G,
Damle N,
Sikand VK.
Prospective study of serologic tests for Lyme disease.
Clin Infect Dis
2008;
47:
188–95.
- 5
Kalish RA,
McHugh G,
Granquist J,
Shea B,
Ruthazer R,
Steere AC.
Persistence of immunoglobulin M or immunoglobulin G antibody responses to Borrelia burgdorferi 10–20 years after active Lyme disease.
Clin Infect Dis
2001;
33:
780–5.
- 6
Kannian P,
Drouin EE,
Glickstein L,
Kwok WW,
Nepom GT,
Steere AC.
Decline in the frequencies of Borrelia burgdorferi OspA161 175-specific T cells after antibiotic therapy in HLA-DRB1*0401-positive patients with antibiotic-responsive or antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis.
J Immunol
2007;
179:
6336–42.
- 7
Steere AC,
Hutchinson GJ,
Rahn DW,
Sigal LH,
Craft JE,
DeSanna ET, et al.
Treatment of the early manifestations of Lyme disease.
Ann Intern Med
1983;
99:
22–6.
- 8
Steere AC,
Schoen RT,
Taylor E.
The clinical evolution of Lyme arthritis.
Ann Intern Med
1987;
107:
725–31.
- 9
Wormser GP,
Dattwyler RJ,
Shapiro ED,
Halperin JJ,
Steere AC,
Klempner MS, et al.
The clinical assessment, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and babesiosis: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Clin Infect Dis
2006;
43:
1089–134.
- 10
Steere AC,
Levin RE,
Molloy PJ,
Kalish RA,
Abraham JH III,
Liu NY, et al.
Treatment of Lyme arthritis.
Arthritis Rheum
1994;
37:
878–88.
- 11
Steere AC,
Angelis SM.
Therapy for Lyme arthritis: strategies for the treatment of antibiotic-refractory arthritis [review].
Arthritis Rheum
2006;
54:
3079–86.
