Paul Lantos,MD, a Duke Medicine hospitalist, clinician-educator, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending, is well known for his research and knowledge about Lyme disease. In the past several months he has several published papers and a noteworthy presence in the meetings of the IDSA as well as an international conference on lyme borreliosis.
Conference Participation
September 2015 - International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis, Vienna, Austria [Link]
Lantos presented five posters, the first three as lead author:
- Unorthodox alternative therapies marketed to patients with Lyme disease
- Poor positive predictive value of Lyme disease serodiagnostic testing in an area of low disease incidence
- Geographic expansion of Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, 2000-2014
- The positive predictive value of Lyme ELISA for the diagnosis of Lyme disease in children
- Lyme Disease Consultations at a Mid-Atlantic Referral Center, 2000-2013
October 2015 - Infectious Diseases Society of America Meeting, San Diego, CA
Lantos was an invited moderator for the symposium “Tick-borne diseases” and gave an invited lecture: “Lyme Disease and Spatial Uncertainty."
Leadership in Guidelines Development
Lantos further serves as co-chair of guidelines development for lyme disease, the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, a collaborative effort with the IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America), the AAN (American Academy of Neurology) and the ACR (American College of Rheumatology). In contrast to the previous IDSA guideline in 2006 this guideline is being authored by three core societies and has official representation from numerous other societies, including ACP where Lantos is actually the ACP representative in addition to his role as IDSA Co-Chair.
Remarkably he also co-chairs the IDSA guidelines group for Babesiosis management.
Recent Publications
Lipsett SC, Pollock NR, Branda JA, Gordon CD, Gordon CR, Lantos PM, Nigrovic LE. The positive predictive value of Lyme ELISA for the diagnosis of Lyme disease in children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2015 Jul 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26222064. [Link]
Lantos PM, Nigrovic LE, Auwaerter PG, Fowler VG, Ruffin F, Brinkerhoff RJ, Reber J, Williams C, Broyhill J, Pan WK, Gaines DN. Geographic expansion of Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, 2000-2014. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2015, Sept 27 [E-pub]. [Link]
Lantos, PM, Branda, JA, Boggan, JC, Chudgar, SM, Wilson, EA, Ruffin, F, Fowler, V, Auwaerter, PG, and Nigrovic, LE. "Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence." Clinical infectious diseases: an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 61, no. 9 (November 2015): 1374-1380. PMID 26195017 [Link]
Our GIM Blog includes more highlights about Dr. Lantos, for example, this "Spotlight." For more news search the GIM Blog site for "Lantos."