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Obstacles to diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease in the USA: a qualitative study

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  • Annemarie G Hirsch Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rachel J Herman Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alison Rebman Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Katherine A Moon Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John Aucott Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christopher Heaney Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brian S Schwartz Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Annemarie G Hirsch; aghirsch{at}geisinger.edu
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Hirsch AG, Herman RJ, Rebman A, et al
Obstacles to diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease in the USA: a qualitative study
BMJ Open 2018;8:e021367. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021367

Publication history

  • Received January 8, 2018
  • Revised May 4, 2018
  • Accepted May 18, 2018
  • First published June 11, 2018.
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December 08, 2023
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