In this review on key issues in Lyme disease, studies typically or completely omitted pretreatment to kill Bartonella and Babesia in actual human patients. These studies rarely or never ran tests for these two common infections using multiple advanced research labs that have invested millions in research to achieve the best technology. Therefore, Bartonella and the single-celled parasite Babesia could cause some of these symptoms. This is critical because Bartonella is vastly more common than Lyme disease and we expect most doctors to know that in 20 to 25 years.
Source: Rebman AW and Aucott JN (2020) Post-treatment Lyme Disease as a Model for Persistent Symptoms in Lyme Disease. Front. Med. 7:57. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00057
Participants with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and controls were asked about presence and severity of 36 signs/symptoms over the past 2 weeks. Displayed are the 25 signs/symptoms with a statistically significant difference in severity by group (p < 0.05), ordered by frequency within the PTLDS group. The nine signs/symptoms with a statistically significant difference at the p < 0.001 level are indicated with an asterisk.