Lyme Aware

Study: Evidence Of Lyme Disease-Autism Link Lacking

The proposed link between the bacterial tick borne disease, Lyme disease and autism is lacking in evidence, according to researchers at Columbia University. Despite a prevalence of Lyme disease as high as 20 percent (or even higher) reported in some children with autism, the new research found no cases of Lyme disease in children when CDC recommended testing was done. Results of the study appear in the May 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the study, Columbia University Medical Center researcher Mary Ajamian, and colleagues performed Lyme disease serological testing of serum samples from 120 children aged 2–18 years, including 70 with autism (from the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange and the Weill Cornell Autism Research Program) and 50 siblings and unrelated healthy controls without autism. Read more.

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