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Seasonality of Acute Lyme Disease in Children
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 Due to the life cycle of its vector, Lyme disease has known seasonal variation. However, investigations focused on children have been limited. Our objective was to evaluate the seasonality of pediatric Lyme disease in three endemic regions in the United ...
Kathryn M. Sundheim +8 more
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Tissue‐damaging marking methods do not affect tick burdens on field captured Peromyscus spp.
Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 46, Issue 5, December 2022., 2022 Small mammals are important hosts for Ixodes scapularis, particularly white‐footed mice and deer mice from the genus Peromyscus. We evaluate three tissue‐damaging marking methods to determine if any method affects the tick burden on captured mice. There were no significant differences in tick burden on captured mice among the tissue‐damaging marking ...
Chloe E. Roberts +7 more
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Current 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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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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Exploring convolutional neural networks with transfer learning for diagnosing Lyme disease from skin lesion images [PDF]
, 2021 Lyme disease which is one of the most common infectious vector-borne diseases manifests itself in most cases with erythema migrans (EM) skin lesions. Recent studies show that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well to identify skin lesions from images.
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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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A rare cause of peripheral facial paralysis in childhood in our country: lyme disease [PDF]
, 2017 Lyme disease is a zoonosis caused by Spirochetes called Borrelia burgdorferi, involving several areas, such as the skin, heart and central nervous system.
Gürses, Dolunay, Özdemir, Emine
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Lyme Disease: Is It or Is It Not?
Canadian 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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A Case Series on NeuroborreliosisAn Emerging Infection in India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021 Lyme disease is a zoonotic disease spread by the bite of Ixodes ticks. These ticks are known to be found in wooded or grassy areas. The disease manifestations can be divided into early Lyme disease and late Lyme disease. The manifestations of late Lyme
Rachna Sehgal, Meenakshi Bhatt
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The Emerging Role of Microbial Biofilm in Lyme Neuroborreliosis [PDF]
, 2018 Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in North America and Borrelia afzelii or Borrelia garinii in Europe and Asia, respectively.
Bordignon, Valentina +10 more
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