Coinfections exacerbate the expression of the disease and hinder the therapeutic success.

Coinfections exacerbate the expression of the disease and hinder the therapeutic success. The symptomatology of Lyme borreliosis and the so-called coinfections exhibit high degrees of overlap. A subtle diagnostic analysis is required to account for all of the infectious diseases, which could (possibly) be present. 


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565243