Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 BackgroundLyme disease is among the most reported tick-borne diseases worldwide, making it a major ongoing public health concern.
Elda Kokoe Elolo Laison +9 more
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Forecasting Disease Burden In Philippines: A Symbolic Regression Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Burden of disease measures the impact of living with illness and injury and dying prematurely and it is increasing worldwide leading cause of death both global and national. This paper aimed to propose an index of diseases and evaluate a mathematical model to describe the number of burden of disease by cause in the Philippines from 1990 - 2016. Through
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Adolescents, 2023 This qualitative case study explored the experiences of one Canadian adolescent with symptom-persistent Lyme disease. Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne illness in North America, and infection rates are rising across Canada.
Sarah Ciotti +2 more
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Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in historic tick samples and its relevance to the white-tailed deer population in New Hampshire [PDF]
, 2018 The cases of Lyme disease in New Hampshire have increased over time. There are speculations that increasing number of Lyme disease cases in New Hampshire are due to environmental factors, such as warmer climate, white-footed mouse population, white ...
Rakasiwi, Tasya
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Ticks, Deer, Mice, and a Touch of Sensitivity: A Recipe for Controlling Lyme Disease [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is a bacterial spirochete prevalent in the Northeastern United States that causes Lyme disease. Lyme disease is the most common arthropod-borne disease in the United States; affecting mice, deer, humans and other mammals.
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An update on the diagnosis and treatment of early Lyme Disease: Focusing on the bull\u27s eye, you may miss the mark [PDF]
, 2007 To confidently diagnose and treat Lyme disease, the clinician must first understand the natural history of this disease, especially its protean early manifestations.
Henry, C. Amber +2 more
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The Controversies, Challenges and Complexities of Lyme Disease: A Narrative Review
Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2018 Purpose: Lyme disease has become an increasingly important global public health concern. Method: A narrative review was conducted and designed to present a broad perspective on Lyme disease, and describe its history and development in terms of clinical ...
Marie Claire Van Hout
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Modeling the effects of variable feeding patterns of larval ticks on the transmission of Borrelia lusitaniae and Borrelia afzelii [PDF]
, 2017 Spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdoferi sensu lato (sl) group cause Lyme Borreliosis (LB), which is the most commonly reported vector-borne zoonosis in Europe. B. burgdorferi sl is maintained in nature in a complex cycle involving Ixodes ricinus ticks and several species of vertebrate hosts. The transmission dynamics of B.
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CheXseen: Unseen Disease Detection for Deep Learning Interpretation of Chest X-rays [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We systematically evaluate the performance of deep learning models in the presence of diseases not labeled for or present during training. First, we evaluate whether deep learning models trained on a subset of diseases (seen diseases) can detect the presence of any one of a larger set of diseases.
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Lyme Disease Education: Prevention and Response to Tick Bites [PDF]
, 2017 Lyme disease is a major public health concern in Vermont, and is only becoming more prevalent. There were nearly 800 probable cases of Lyme disease in 2016, compared to 100 cases in 2006.
LoSchiavo, Nicholas S
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