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Press Releases - 2005
http://www.nymc.edu/depthome/pr/NR2005/05-03-05.asp
Contact: Donna E. Moriarty
(914) 594-4536

COLLEGE SCIENTIST PUBLISHES NEW FINDINGS ON HOW LYME DISEASE IS SPREAD

VALHALLA, N.Y., May 3, 2005 ? The results of a five-year study, published
this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers at New York
Medical College, reveal intriguing new data on the spread of the Lyme
disease bacteria through the blood stream. The ability to find the Lyme
spirochete - the tick-borne agent responsible?in the blood is itself an
achievement because existing methods of culturing blood were not sensitive
enough to detect its presence until College researchers developed a new
technique, which they used in the study.

Leading the study was Gary P. Wormser, M.D., professor of medicine, director
of the Division of Infectious Diseases and vice chairman of the Department
of Medicine. "If Lyme disease stayed in the skin it would be a completely
different and rather inconsequential infection?but it doesn't," Dr. Wormser
explained. "The causative agent of Lyme disease can spread from its entry
point at the tick bite site through the blood to distant sites such as the
brain, heart, and joints. This study answers questions that have never been
answered before and raises others that will likely stimulate future studies
on Lyme disease."

The study followed 213 initially untreated adults with erythema migrans, the
tell-tale bull's eye rash that is the most common clinical feature of Lyme
disease, to determine when does blood stream invasion occur, how many
patients experienced blood stream invasion and who is most vulnerable. Blood
stream invasion occurred in 93 (43.7 percent) of patients in the study, who
also were more often symptomatic (89.2 percent vs. 74.2 percent) and more
likely to have multiple erythema migrans lesions (41.9 percent vs. 15.0
percent) than the 120 patients without blood stream invasion. However, some
patients had no tell-tale symptoms at all, making the presence or absence of
blood stream invasion impossible to predict with certainty based on clinical
features alone. Younger patients and those with a prior history of Lyme
disease were somewhat protected.

Dr. Wormser and his colleagues concluded that, "The high rate, early onset,
and prolonged duration of risk for blood stream invasion probably explain
why untreated patients with erythema migrans often develop complications
distant from the tick bite location. Older patients without a past episode
of Lyme disease are at particular risk."

http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/142/9/751
More on this at Annals of Internal Medicine