It is established that chronic spirochetal infection can cause slowly progressive dementia,
brain atrophy and amyloid deposition in late neurosyphilis. Recently it has been suggested …

Lyme disease has a worldwide distribution and is the most common vector-borne disease in
the United States. Incidence, clinical manifestations, and presentations vary by geography …

Lyme disease is a systemic bacterial infection caused by a spirochete called Borrelia
burgdorferi. This spirochete infects small hard body ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. Lyme …

The Lyme disease causing bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi has an affinity for the central
nervous system (CNS) and has been isolated from human cerebral spinal fluid by 18 days …

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infectious disease in the United States. Post-
treatment Lyme disease (PTLD) is a condition affecting 10–20% of patients in which …

Lyme disease is a multisystem infectious disease caused by the tick-borne spirochete,
Borrelia burgdorferi. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement typically causes local …

There are no positron emission tomography (PET) studies reported in the literature with
regards to brain metabolism and function in patients with Lyme disease. These patients …

FIGURE 1. Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infection. The causative organism
is the spirochete Borrelia (left). This darkfield photomicrograph (400x) is courtesy of the …

Aim The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal changes in brain perfusion in
patients with Lyme disease treated with human embryonic stem cells. Material and methods …

This book serves as a casebook for clinical nuclear medicine neuroimaging. Clinical
interpretation of nuclear medicine neuroimaging studies is often challenging, mainly due to …