TY - JOUR AU - Nigrovic, Lise AU - Neville, Desire AU - Balamuth, Fran AU - Levas, Michael AU - Bennett, Jonathan AU - Kharbanda, Anupam AU - Thompson, Amy AU - Branda, John AU - Garro, Aris T1 - Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015–2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 12 SP - 3099 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Lyme disease KW - biobank KW - diagnosis KW - pediatrics KW - vector-borne infections KW - tick-borne infections KW - zoonoses KW - bacterial zoonoses KW - bacteria KW - United States KW - Borrelia burgdorferi DO - 10.3201/eid2612.200920 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/20-0920_article ER - End of Reference