In January 2016, the NGC removed the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines on Lyme disease for these reasons. In a scathing report on the standard of clinical guidelines in North America, the Institute of Medicine specifically referenced the IDSA guidelines on Lyme disease as a prime example of what not to do. Now, the only evidence-based, peer-reviewed guidelines on Lyme disease that conform to (and exceed) the Institute of Medicine’s clinical guideline standards and are available on the NGC website, are the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society guidelines for Lyme disease (ILADS). ILADS guidelines recognize persistent Lyme and have cured thousands of patients.
Meanwhile, the CDC is still promoting the ISDA guidelines that deny the evidence of persistent Lyme Disease. The CDC claims that these 2006 guidelines represent the "best science" and "the best synthesis of the available evidence". They do not provide the reference or criteria to substantiate this claim. And they are ignoring over 700 peer-reviewed articles that support the persistent Lyme theory.[1]
[1]https://www.ilads.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/CLDList-ILA...
