I'd like to see someone perform a study on treating a group of chronic Lyme disease patients displaying ME/CFS symptoms with rituximab; if these patients had the same clinical response as regular ME/CFS patients get from rituximab, it would suggest that Lyme ME/CFS is the same as or very similar to regular ME/CFS.
however, there are those who think that all autoimmune disease is caused by intracellular bacteria ....