Quotes from the American Lyme Disease Foundation
"Lyme disease, whatever the stage, is almost always cured by a single course ... of conventional antibiotic treatment."
"Further discussion on long-term antibiotic therapy can be found here: Quackwatch."
"Once their mode of action is understood, it is anticipated that other drugs -- without antimicrobial activity -- might be used instead of antibiotics to elicit some of the beneficial effects observed."
"There is currently no scientific evidence that any other treatment approaches, such as repeated or prolonged courses of therapy, increasing the dosage or combining or alternating antibiotics are any more effective in curing the disease than the standard regimen of shorter duration."
"Although the Western blot is not foolproof and should not be used to diagnose Lyme disease without accompanying symptomologic evidence, the ELISA/Western blot combination is considered the most reliable testing method currently available."
"Categories (in alphabetical order):
How many Lyme disease patients get erythema migrans?
Is long-term antibiotic therapy safe?
Do antibiotics have other properties besides killing bacteria?
Is there a vaccine for Lyme disease?"
"Studies have shown that an infected tick normally cannot begin transmitting the spirochete until it has been attached to its host about 36-48 hours..."
http://www.aldf.com/lyme.shtml
"Generally, if you discover a deer tick attached to your skin that has not yet become engorged, it has not been there long enough to transmit the LD spirochete."
http://www.aldf.com/lyme.shtml
"The first symptom is usually an expanding rash (called erythema migrans, or EM, in medical terms) which is thought to occur in 80% to 90% of all LD cases."
http://www.aldf.com/lyme.shtml