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Lyme disease

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Rheumatology, 1994
This chapter focuses on Lyme disease, a systemic illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, considered the most common tick-borne disease in the United States. Since the original discovery of Lyme arthritis in the mid 1970s, the clinical spectrum of Lyme disease has been expanded to include a wide variety of organ systems, primarily the ...
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Lyme Disease: Is It or Is It Not?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2005
This past summer, Lyme disease was the topic of a Focus section in the Globe and Mail (1). In this section, the reporter described her experience of having physicians unable and then unwilling to diagnose her symptoms of "skin on fire, dizziness and chest pains, twitching muscles, and trouble keeping balance" as Lyme disease following a tick bite ...
Johnston, BL, Conly, JM
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Lyme Disease [PDF]

open access: yesClinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2010
Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. The clinical presentation varies depending on the stage of the illness: early disease includes erthyma migrans, early disseminated disease includes multiple erythema migrans, meningitis, cranial nerve palsies, and carditis; late ...
Thomas S, Murray, Eugene D, Shapiro
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The impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on cases of Borreliosis infection in 2020

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2021
Borreliosis (Lyme borreliosis; Lyme disease) is a zoonotic disease caused by spirochetes from the genus Borrelia. In humans, the accidental host of ticks, the infection is transmitted by the bite of the tick - the spirochetes are present in the salivary
Karolina Rogulska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Common Neurologic Features of Lyme Disease That May Present to a Rheumatologist

open access: yesPathogens, 2023
Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) infection, has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and severity. Patients with possible Lyme disease may seek out or be referred to rheumatologists.
Swati Govil   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology and risk factors of Lyme disease in Taiwan from 2007 to 2020

open access: yesJournal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis is the most commonly transmitted tick-borne infection in the United States and among the most frequently diagnosed tick-borne infections worldwide. Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi.
Chi-Jeng Hsieh   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indirect Detection of Swine Influenza Activity in Porcine Blood Using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning

open access: yesJournal of Biophotonics, EarlyView.
Blood serum from healthy swine, unvaccinated or vaccinated against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, and vaccinated swine infected with H1N1 and H1N2 variants of swine influenza was analyzed using Raman spectroscopy. Partial least squares discriminant analysis and eXtreme gradient boosting discriminant analysis of the acquired spectra ...
Aidan Paul Holman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in resource utilization for new‐onset psychosis hospitalizations at children's hospitals

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Children with new‐onset psychosis often require hospitalization for medical evaluation. Objectives The goal of this study was to assess variations in the management of children with new‐onset psychosis and characterize trends in resource utilization.
Ankita Gupta   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modified two-tiered testing algorithm for Lyme disease serology: the Canadian context

open access: yesCanada Communicable Disease Report, 2020
Background: Lyme disease (LD) is emerging in many parts of central and eastern Canada. Serological testing is most commonly used to support laboratory diagnosis of LD.
Todd Hatchette   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015–2020

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In 2015, we founded Pedi Lyme Net, a pediatric Lyme disease research network comprising 8 emergency departments in the United States. Of 2,497 children evaluated at 1 of these sites for Lyme disease, 515 (20.6%) were infected.
Lise E. Nigrovic   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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