Research: The Association between Tick-Borne Infections, Lyme Borreliosis and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Authored by Bransfield, RC, Wulfman JS, Harvey WT, and Asman AI in Medical Hypotheses, Volume 70, Issue 5, p. 967-974, (2008).

Article summary (posted May 23, 2008):

Antibiotics that treat Lyme disease may help some people with autism.

This article was written to describe the possibility that autism is made worse by Lyme disease. Many doctors and parents have noticed that mothers who had Lyme disease were more likely to give birth to children with autism. Also many adults who get Lyme disease have symptoms that are like autism. The authors believe that 20-30% of autism may be caused by the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. They believe that another infectious agent (Mycoplasma) may be a factor in 58% of cases of autism.

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adults with autism, antibiotics, autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), bacteria, doctor, mother, mycoplasma, parent
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