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Lyme Disease

NIAID’s Role in Lyme Disease Research

The NIAID has had a long-standing commitment to conduct research on Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease. The major goals of the NIAID Lyme Disease Research Program are to develop better means of diagnosing, treating, and preventing this disease. To accomplish these objectives, the NIAID Lyme disease research portfolio includes a broad range of activities designed to increase our understanding of this disease. Learn more about NIAID's Lyme disease research.

Understanding Lyme Disease

Introduction: What causes Lyme disease, how it is transmitted, and symptoms of the disease

Lyme Disease: The Facts, The Challenges (PDF)

Chronic Lyme Disease 

Lyme Disease Research at NIAID

Transmission
Diagnostic Procedures
Co-Infection
Antibiotic Therapy

Autoimmune Reactivity
Vaccine Production
Institutes and Centers
Publications


News Releases

NIAID Media availablity: Antibodies Protect Mice from Developing Respiratory Tularemia—June 27, 2007

Scientists Reveal How Disease Bacterium Survives Inside Immune System Cell—May 5, 2005

All Lyme Disease News Releases


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