Marshfield Clinic Research Institute Looking for Patients in Early Stages of Lyme Disease
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 -- 8:00 AM
-As the only Midwest health care system in the national Lyme Disease Biobank, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is looking for patients suspected to be in the early stages of Lyme disease to aid in the research of this disease that frequently infects Wisconsin residents.There were 1,491 confirmed and 3,470 estimated cases of Lyme disease in Wisconsin in 2016, according to the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. There are six times more people diagnosed with Lyme disease than HIV in the U.S. Early Lyme disease symptoms include headaches, flu-like symptoms, joint pain, fatigue and sometimes one or more rashes. These rashes may be red and expanding, with a central clearing that may look like a bull’s-eye centered on the tick bite.
MCRI’s participation in the Lyme Disease Biobank, which started in 2016, continues to increase the number of quality samples to enable research efforts and accelerate medical breakthroughs. The Lyme Disease Biobank is the first and only program collecting blood and urine samples of people with early Lyme disease in multiple regions across the country, including the East Coast, Wisconsin and California.
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