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Recent Progress in Lyme Disease and Remaining Challenges
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States with an estimated 476,000 cases per year. While historically, the long-term impact of Lyme disease on patients has been controversial, mounting ...
Jason R. Bobe +30 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 We evaluated MarketScan, a large commercial insurance claims database, for its potential use as a stable and consistent source of information on Lyme disease diagnoses in the United States.
Amy M Schwartz +4 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women worldwide. Recent studies have demonstrated that inflammation due to infections with microorganisms could play a role in breast cancer development.
Ananya Debbarma +4 more
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Effect of Invasion of Borrelia burgdorferi in Normal and Neoplastic Mammary Epithelial Cells
Antibiotics, 2021 Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme Disease, is known to be able to disseminate and colonize various organs and tissues of its hosts, which is very crucial for its pathogenicity and survival.
Gauri Gaur +6 more
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PLoS Biology, 2021 Lyme disease is common in the northeastern United States, but rare in the southeast, even though the tick vector is found in both regions. Infection prevalence of Lyme spirochetes in host-seeking ticks, an important component to the risk of Lyme disease,
H. Ginsberg +15 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundLyme carditis, defined as direct infection of cardiac tissue by Borrelia bacteria, affects up to 10% of patients with Lyme disease. The most frequently reported clinical manifestation of Lyme carditis is cardiac conduction system disease.
Uwajachukwumma A Uzomah +9 more
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Lyme Disease in the Era of COVID-19: A Delayed Diagnosis and Risk for Complications
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2021 We describe a patient with fever and myalgia who did not have COVID-19 but instead had Lyme disease. We propose that the co-occurrence of COVID-19 and Lyme disease during the spring of 2020 resulted in a delayed diagnosis of Lyme disease due to COVID-19 ...
Cheryl B. Novak +2 more
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The Platelet Fraction Is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood
Biology, 2020 Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct detection methods, such as bacterial culture or molecular analysis, due to their inadequate sensitivity.
Victoria P. Sanderson +4 more
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000 Lyme disease, which is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted in the United States primarily by Ixodes scapularis (the deer tick), is the most common vector borne disease in the United States. Its most frequent manifestation, a characteristic, expanding annular rash (erythema migrans), sometimes accompanied by myalgia, arthralgia, and malaise ...
E D, Shapiro, M A, Gerber
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 This evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease was developed by a multidisciplinary panel representing the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
Paul M. Lantos +32 more
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