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"Disclosure: RBS serves without compensation on the medical advisory panel for QMedRx Inc. He has no financial ties to the company. LJ has no potential conflicts of interest to declare."

"The authors thank Drs Stephen Barthold, Robert Bransfield, Joseph Burrascano, Daniel Cameron, Allison DeLong, Brian Fallon, Chris Green, Nick Harris, Steven Harris, Robert Lane, Kenneth Liegner, Benjamin Luft, Alan Mac-Donald, Betty Maloney, David Martz, Carsten Nicolaus, Steven Phillips, Eva Sapi, Ginger Savely, Armin Schwarzbach, David Volkman, Edward Winger, and Ying Zhang for helpful discussion. We also thank Pam Weintraub and Kris Newby for their insight, and we are grateful to Pat Smith of the Lyme Disease Association, Diane Blanchard and Deb Siciliano of Time for Lyme, Staci Grodin of Turn the Corner Foundation, and Barb Barsocchini, Dorothy Leland, and Phyllis Mervine of the California Lyme Disease Association for continuing support. There was no funding source for this article. Ethical approval was not required for this article."