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Lyme Disease

NIAID’s Role in Lyme Disease Research

The NIAID has 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


    • Volunteer for Food Allergy Clinical Studies
    Volunteer for NIAID-funded clinical studies related to Lyme disease on ClinicalTrials.gov.

    Lyme Disease Research  at NIAID

  • Transmission
  • Diagnostic Procedures
  • Co-Infection
  • Antibiotic Therapy
  • Autoimmune Reactivity
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  • Vaccine Production
  • Research in NIAID Labs
  • NIH Institutes and Centers
  • Scientific Literature

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    News Releases about Tickborne Diseases

    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 Tickborne Diseases News Releases

    Research Feature

    Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D. inoculating ticks,

    In 1982, NIAID scientist Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D., identified the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Read about the groundbreaking discovery of Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Related Links

    View a list of links for more information about lyme disease.

    See Also

  • Vector Biology
  • Tickborne Diseases

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    Publications

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    Research Feature

    Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D. inoculating ticks,

    In 1982, NIAID scientist Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D., identified the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Read about the groundbreaking discovery of Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Related Links

    View a list of links for more information about lyme disease.

    See Also

  • Vector Biology
  • Tickborne Diseases

    •  

    Publications

    View a related publications including pamphlets, information sheets, and reports produced by NIAID for the general public on various health topics and research activities of NIAID.

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