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Practice Guidelines:

CDC 1996 Case Definition for Lyme Disease

CDC 2000 Case Definition for Ehrlichiosis

CDC 1996 Case Definition for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

CDC 1999 Case Definition for Q Fever

CDC 1999 Case Definition for Tularemia

Guidelines for the Infectious Diseases Society of America – Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease (2000)

American Academy of Pediatrics Policy on the Prevention of Lyme Disease

American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameters on the Diagnosis of Patients with Nervous System Lyme Borreliosis

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