Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes: Workshop Report

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by  Institute of Medicine, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The State of the Science

Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding
Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of
Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The
Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes

Workshop Report

Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases:
The State of the Science

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes: Workshop Report
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON LYME DISEASE AND OTHER
TICK-BORNE DISEASES: THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE
LONNIE J. KING, D.V.M., (Chair) Dean, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
NAOMI L. GERBER, M.D., Director, Center for the Study of Chronic Illness & Disability,
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
STEPHEN M. OSTROFF, M.D., Director, Bureau of Epidemiology, Pennsylvania Department
of Health, Harrisburg, VA
GUY H. PALMER, D.V.M., Ph.D., Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases;
The Creighton Chair and Director of the School for Global Animal Health, Washington
State University, Pullman, WA
GORDON E. SCHUTZE, M.D., Professor and Vice-Chairman for Educational Affairs,
Department of Pediatrics, Vice President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative,
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
DAVID H. WALKER, M.D., The Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair
in Tropical Diseases, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, Executive Director,
Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease, University of Texas Medical
Branch-Galveston, Galveston, TX

Study Staff

CHRISTINE M COUSSENS, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer and Study Director, Board on
Population Health and Public Health Practice
CAROL MASON SPICER, Ph.D., Associate Program Officer, Board on Population Health and
Public Health Practice (from December 2010)
RITA DENG, M.H.S., Associate Program Officer, Board on Population Health and Public
Health Practice (until October 2010)
TREVONNE WALFORD, B.S., Research Assistant, Board on Population Health and Public
Health Practice
PAM LIGHTER, B.S., Senior Program Assistant, Board on Population Health and Public
Health Practice (until April 2010)
HOPE HARE, M.A., Adminstrative Assistant, Board on Population Health and Public Health
Practice
ANDREA BANKOSKI. B.S., Consultant
SANDRA HACKMAN, B.A. Consultant

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Sc.D., Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health
Practice
PATRICK KELLEY, M.D., Director, Board on Global Health

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REVIEWERS
This report has been reviewed in draft form by persons chosen for their diverse perspectives and
technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s
(NRC’s) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid
and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as
possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and
responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain
confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individual’s
for their review of this report:

Abdu F. Azad, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Maryland
Stephen W. Barthold, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Director of the Center of
Comparative Medicine, University of California at Davis
Linda Lobes, Director, Michigan Lyme Disease Association
Robert Smith, M.D., M.P.H., Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Ellen Stromdahl, Ph.D., Entomologist, US Army Public Health Command

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions
they did not see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was
overseen by Linda McCauley, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., R.N., Dean, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School
of Nursing, Emory University. Appointed by the National Research Council, she was
responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in
accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully
considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring
committee and the institution.
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acronyms xiii

OVERVIEW O-1

1 INTRODUCTION 1-1
2 AN OVERVIEW OF TICK-BORNE DISEASES 2-1
3 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND HUMAN FACE
OF TICK-BORNE DISEASE 3-1
4 EMERGING INFECTIONS, TICK BIOLOGY, AND HOST–VECTOR
INTERACTIONS 4-1
5 SURVEILLANCE, SPECTRUM, AND BURDEN OF TICK-BORNE
DISEASE, AND AT-RISK POPULATIONS 5-1
6 PATHOGENESIS 6-1
7 DIAGNOSTICS AND DIAGNOSIS 7-1
8 PREVENTION 8-1
9 CLOSING PANELS 9-1

REFERENCES R-1

APPENDIXES
A Commissioned Papers A-1
B Federal Funding of Tick-Borne Disease B-1
C Summary of Public Comment on Agenda C-1
D Workshop Agenda D-1
E Public Comment Summary E-1
F Speaker Biosketches F-1

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