I'm on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site looking at the IDSA guidelines. The 2006 guidelines were last reviewed in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases. They say that the guidelines “were re-evaluated and upheld by an independent scientific review panel whose members were certified to be free from any conflicts of interest by an independent ombudsman”, and that the CDC supports the IDSA Lyme disease guidelines as continuing to provide “comprehensive, accurate information that patients can use in their health care decisions.”
Dr. Njoo, there's a conflicting source here for guidelines. There's clearly a very heavily scientifically weighted opinion through the CDC, but there's an online group that the doctor has referred to. Can you talk to me about how PHAC discerns among guidelines so that as you're going out in the framework you are issuing the best scientific evidence-reviewed guidelines?