LYME DISEASE PROGNOSIS |
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If aggressive antibiotic therapy is
given early, and the patient cooperates fully and sticks to the
medication schedule, recovery should be complete. Only a small
percentage of Lyme disease patients fail to respond or relapse (have
recurring episodes). Most long-term effects of the disease result
when diagnosis and treatment is delayed or missed. Co-infection with
other infectious organisms spread by ticks in the same areas as Bb
(babesiosis and ehrlichiosis, for instance) may be responsible for
treatment failures or more severe symptoms. Lyme disease has been
responsible for deaths, but that is rare. |
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