Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015–2020

Abstract

In 2015, we founded Pedi Lyme Net, a pediatric Lyme disease research network comprising 8 emergency departments in the United States. Of 2,497 children evaluated at 1 of these sites for Lyme disease, 515 (20.6%) were infected. This network is a unique resource for evaluating new approaches for diagnosing Lyme disease in children.

Keywords

• Lyme disease
• biobank
• diagnosis
• pediatrics
• vector-borne infections
• tick-borne infections