Thanks! I have the abstract below but not the whole sha-bang. I don't "belong" to the high dollar places where you have to pay for articles... and don't have time to register and play games.

Thanks for looking!

J Infect Dis. 1996 May;173(5):1260-2.

The public health impact of Lyme disease in Maryland.

Coyle BS, Strickland GT, Liang YY, Pena C, McCarter R, Israel E.

Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.

The purpose of this study was to estimate the health burden imposed by Lyme disease (LD) in Maryland during 1992 and 1993. A cross-sectional 1-in-15 survey of physicians (total, 1200) in Maryland was conducted to estimate the incidence of diagnosed LD, presumptive cases of LD, patients with tick bites, and diagnostic tests ordered for LD. Results show that LD is underreported by 10- to 12-fold in Maryland, that 80% of cases are managed by primary care physicians, and that there is discordance between the actual clinical treatment of patients and the recommended approach. In addition, the much greater numbers of patients treated for presumptive LD, seen and given prophylaxis for tick bites, and having diagnostic tests indicate that real and perceived LD is a far greater public health problem and uses more medical resources than official surveillance data suggest.

PMID: 8627082 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Darn you...

That wasn't the ones I needed.

BUT.. hehehe

I was able to find SEVERAL very good quotes and other info from them!

So darn you for making me more work! HA!

No..

Actually... thank you!!! I was needing some of it anyway and you saved me steps.. and as I said.. there was new stuff I am using in there.. so I DO appreciate it!!!

Cheryl.. bless her heart too... also sent me good articles.

So I am up to date on that topic.. and I thank you both!

Happy Saturday night!

The Journal of Infectious Diseases is located here:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/home.html

The have all issues available online since journal 175(4):
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/home.html

You can search for an article, or pick your journal number here:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/available.html

You'll notice that the article you want isn't available in electronic format. It's too old. If you use the link out option at PubMed, you can find the places where it is available in print. Pick one close to you:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Re trieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8627082&dopt=ExternalLink&ExternalLink=libs

Click the all at the end of the alphabet to show all of the libraries, under the library section. If that link doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll walk you through how to get there, if you don't already know.

Sorry for making more work for you, but I checked with ProQuest and they only show the same info. as MedLine. They don't have the full article online either.