Journal of Geography  & Natural Disasters
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Tick-borne diseases: Challenge in diagnostics and therapies of chronic multiple infections

Armin Schwarzbach

Lyme-Borreliosis and coinfections are the chameleon of symptoms, laboratory test results and therapy options. Many patients can be infected by tick-bites with several bacteria (multiple infections). Symptoms of tick-borne diseases are not highlyspecific for Lyme-Borreliosis or other coinfections (overlapping symptoms).