Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease: Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines for Lyme and other Tick Borne Illnesses (aka the Burrascano Guidelines) - These guidelines are considered by many to be the Gold Standard for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease. If you have Lyme Disease in Canada, chances are you will neither be diagnosed nor treated by these guidelines. Read them anyway. There is a lot of valuable information in here, including a section on nutritional deficiencies and rehabilitation that will save you a lot of needless suffering. You can download these guidelines here.
The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America - Controversial, embattled, and grudgingly under review, these are the guidelines that have the biggest influence on the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease in Canada. The subject of countless lawsuits, vitriolic critism, and even an antitrust investigation, you can read these guidelines for yourself by clicking here.
The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: Guidelines from the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network - These are the guidelines that directly impact the laboratory testing of Lyme in Canada. So if you haven't fallen asleep reading the other guidelines on this list, here is what the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network has to say about Lyme disease and its diagnosis.
