Patient's Pretreatment Expectations About Post-Lyme Symptoms

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators will focus on pretreatment expectations of patients with early Lyme disease manifested as erythema migrans with the aim of assessing the association between pretreatment expectations quantified with a questionnaire and treatment outcome quantified with the presence of post-Lyme symptoms. Furthermore, the investigators will compare the prevalence of nonspecific symptoms among patients and among age-matched controls without a history of Lyme borreliosis.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Medical Centre Ljubljana
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Doxycycline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• erythema migrans

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy or lactation

• immunocompromised

• taking antibiotic with antiborrelial activity within 10 days