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: Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; United States; bacteria; bacterial zoonoses; biobank; diagnosis; pediatrics; tick-borne infections; vector-borne infections; zoonoses.