Persistent Lyme infection in brain, possible correlation between infection and Lewy body dementia: Tulane study

By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews Tulane University researchers found the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in the brain tissue of a woman who had long suffered neurocognitive impairment after her diagnosis and treatment for the tick-borne disease. The presence of the corkscrew-shaped Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in the former Lyme disease patient's brain and spinal cord were evidence of [...]

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