RT Journal
A1 Tabas JA
T1 Recognition of lyme in time: Comment on “infecting the electrocardiogram”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD November 26
VO 172
IS 21
SP 1627
OP 1627
DO 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.685
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.685
AB 
The article by Fredrickson et al and accompanying Invited Commentary by Edlow in this issue of the Archives highlight a disease entity that can be difficult to diagnose but easily treated if diagnosed early. Recently, I seem to have had increasingly frequent discussions with colleagues and patients about Lyme disease. In addition to submissions for this series highlighting the cardiac sequelae that are rare, discussions have included whether to treat a rash without a known tick bite from a high-prevalence area and whether a rash that developed within a few hours of a tick bite was due to infection or a hypersensitivity reaction.