John Nathaniel Aucott

Assistant Professor
Medicine - Rheumatology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Doctor Orthopaedics
Biography

Dr. John Aucott is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. An internist and Lyme disease expert in the Division of Rheumatology, he is the director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center. With more than 15 years of research experience on the crippling effects of Lyme disease, he has published studies focusing on characteristics of early Lyme disease differences in males and females with an emphasis on prospects for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Aucott received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is fellowship-trained in infectious disease and geographic medicine. Dr. Aucott and his colleagues were recognized by Johns Hopkins with a Discovery Fund Synergy Award in 2014.

Research Intrest

Diagnostic Challenges of Early Lyme Disease, Characterization of Adult Lyme Disease

List of Publications
Aucott JN, Rebman AW, Crowder LA, Kortte KB. Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome symptomatology and the impact on life functioning: is there something here? Qual Life Res (2012)
Aucott J, Morrison C, Munoz B, Rowe PC, Schwarzwalder A, West SK. (2009) Diagnostic challenges of early Lyme disease: Lessons from a community case series. BMC Infectious Diseases 9:79.
Auwaerter, P.G, Aucott, J., & Dumler J.S. (2005). Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease): molecular and cellular pathobiology and prospects for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, 6(2), 1-22.
Coulter P, Lema C, Flayhart D, Linhardt AS, Aucott JN, Auwaerter PG, Dumler JS. Two-year Evaluation of Borrelia burgdorferi culture and supplemental tests for definitive diagnosis of Lyme Disease. J Clin Micro 2005 v43, No 10: 5080-5084.
Alghaferi MY, Anderson JM, Park J, Auwaerter PG, Aucott JN, Norris DE, Dumler JS. Borrelia burgdorferi Heterogeneity among human and murine isolates from a defined region of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania: Lack of correlation with invasive and noninvasive genotypes. J Clin Micro 2005 v43, No 4: 1879-1884.