John Tulloch
o Dr John Tulloch is a Research Fellow with the NIHR HPRU EZI (National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections http://www.hpruezi.nihr.ac.uk/). He works conjointly at Public Health England and the University of Liverpool. In his PhD he analysed health datasets for their potential as Lyme disease surveillance tools. His current focus is translating these data into useable surveillance systems for Public Health England. Other research interests include zoonotic infections and human-animal interactions.
Characteristics of patients attending English and Welsh Hospitals with Lyme disease
What are the characteristics of patients with Lyme disease in England and Wales? In this blog post, the author of a new study recently published in BMC Public Health describes the sociodemographics of the population affected by Lyme disease and how patients with Lyme disease are managed within hospitals and the NHS.
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Lyme disease is transmitted through the bite of specific ticks and has a variety of clinical presentations, most notably a bull’s eye rash (erythema migrans) and an associated flu-like illness. Its distribution through Europe is heterogenous with a large variation in incidence between countries and within them.
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