Category: All Things Lyme Hangout
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Can Lyme disease be mistaken for herpes?
In their article “Disseminated Lyme disease with a herpetiform center,” Zhang et al.¹ described a patient who presented with a Lyme disease rash that could have been mistaken for herpes. The woman in her 30’s developed a herpetiform rash, which resembles herpes lesions. Initially, the patient developed a “small red bump and surrounding swelling on…
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Could Lyme disease have led to a spinal cord lesion?
In their article “Case report: Dueling etiologies: Longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion mimicking spinal cord infarct with simultaneous positive Lyme serology and amphiphysin antibody,”¹ Kalaszi and colleagues discuss the case of a patient who presented with a Bull’s-eye rash 6 months prior to his illness and whose testing was suggestive of Lyme disease as a…