Reporting
Selected References on Lyme Disease
Materials for Your Patients
Continuing Medical Education Courses

Reporting

Like other reportable communicable diseases listed in COMAR 10.06.01.03, health care providers, hospitals and laboratory directors are required to report diagnosed or suspected cases of Lyme disease to the health officer or commissioner in the county where the provider cares for that person.   

Case Report Form ()
Case Report Form ()

Selected References on Lyme Disease

• Treatment of Lyme disease.  The Medical Letter 2005; 47(1209): 41-43.
• Two Controlled Trials of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Persistent Symptoms and A History of Lyme Disease.  Klempner et al. NEJM 2001; 345(2): 85-92.
• How Can We Prevent Lyme Disease?  Hayes and Piesman. NEJM 2003; 348(24): 2424-30. 
• The Presenting Manifestations of Lyme Disease and the Outcomes of Treatment.  Sikand VK.  NEJM 2003; 348(24): 2472-74.

Links to the NEJM articles above have been made available courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Materials for Your Patients

• Lyme Disease: A Public Information Guide (CDC)
• FDA Web site on Lyme Disease
• Lyme Disease information on the Internet

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Continuing Medical Education Courses

• American College of Physicians (includes links to Patients' Guide)
• American Academy of Family Practice ( for physicians; for patients)
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Johns Hopkins Medicine (does schedule courses for medical care providers on a wide variety of subjects, including tick-borne infections.)
• Cleveland Clinic
• University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Medscape  (requires registration for free CME).
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (check under MMWR and look for CME link.)

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