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This is a case study on a 56 year old patient who contracted Lyme disease as a teen but never had it treated, and eventually developed a 6-year set of persistent symptoms: diffuse arthralgia (=joint pain in various joints), migratory neuropathies (=neurological symptoms that migrate all over...

This study by Sen Li et al, was conducted in Scotland, but global warming is well, global, so here we go: Temperature can change the risk for Lyme disease*, because heat has an altering effect on the questing behaviour of the ticks as well as their development. These in their turn change the...

As @limegreen accurately said that there are strong cases of recurrent infections even in the South, one study seems to shed some light as to why: In this study by Janice Van Zee et al, researchers studied the migration patterns of tick subspecies and discovered that the northern tick (which...

This if from a study by Bijaya Sharmaa et al, who studied the resistance patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi (a bacterium that causes Lyme disease), after having noticed that chronic Lyme patients tend to have a recurence of the infection with the next wave of bacteria being antibiotic resistant...

A study by Isis M. Arsnoe et al, examined populations of tick nymphs (Ixodes scapularis), then known carrier of Borrelia bacteria that cause Lyme disease. What they found is that tick nymphs from the North States tend to be more likely to come in contact with humans who rummage through foliage...

A case report came out presenting a 43 year old patient who had profound cerebrovascular infarcts and was found to have neuroborreliosis, which is the type of Lyme disease that has spread to infect the brain. The infection was causing the patient to develop meningitis which proceeded to create...