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The Open Dermatology Journal, 2016 Borrelia burgdorferi is highly susceptible to antibiotic treatment and the majority of patients profit from this treatment. Antibiotic selection, dose and route of administration, and duration of therapy for Lyme disease depend on the patient\u2019s ...
di Meo, Nicola +5 more
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Workplace Health & Safety, 2015 When asked to think of headlining diseases, many would choose bubonic plague, smallpox, Ebola, or leprosy. However, Lyme disease makes up for more confirmed diagnostic cases in the United States than all the aforementioned diseases combined.
Beal, Marin Olson
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New England Journal of Medicine, 1989 Within the last decade, Lyme borreliosis has emerged as a complex new infection whose distribution is worldwide. The disorder is caused by a recently recognized spirochete, B. burgdorferi, transmitted by ticks of the I. ricinus complex. Certain species of mice are critical in the life cycle of the spirochete, and deer appear to be crucial to the tick ...
N, Hamlet, D, Nathwani
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Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2002 Lyme disease is due to infection with a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Risk for infection is confined to regions that contain the Ixodid tick vector. Characteristic skin, musculoskeletal, cardiac, ocular, and neurologic disorders are associated with the local, early dissemination and late stages of infection. Neurologic involvement can be
Gern, Lise, Falco, R.C
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Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1990 We now have more than 30 years of solid, scientific research about Lyme disease, a relatively common, vector-borne illness in parts of the United States and of Europe. Although there is still widespread misunderstanding of and misinformation about the disease among the lay public, its clinical manifestations as well as how to diagnose and to treat it ...
Dale R, Hamilton, John W, Bachman
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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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Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) [PDF]
FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, 1997 Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) has become the most common tick-borne disease in the northern hemisphere. Lyme disease was first described in 1977 by Steere et al. [1]. The town, Old Lyme, CT, USA, was the initial focus of an unusual cluster of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Toshiyuki Masuzawa, Yasutake Yanagihara
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Antimicrobial Activity of Bee Venom and Melittin against Borrelia burgdorferi
Antibiotics, 2017 Lyme disease is a tick-borne, multi-systemic disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. Though antibiotics are used as a primary treatment, relapse often occurs after the discontinuation of antimicrobial agents. The reason for relapse remains
Kayla M. Socarras +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Lyme disease cases reported in seven Canadian provinces from 2009 to 2019 through the Lyme Disease Enhanced Surveillance System are described herein by demographic, geography, time and season. The proportion of males was greater than females.
Kiera Murison +7 more
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Serious Bacterial Infections Acquired During Treatment of Patients Given a Diagnosis of Chronic Lyme Disease - United States. [PDF]
, 2017 The term "chronic Lyme disease" is used by some health care providers as a diagnosis for various constitutional, musculoskeletal, and neuropsychiatric symptoms (1,2).
Blackburn, Brian G +9 more
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