Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the...
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Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is the name used by some people with non-specific symptoms, such as fatigue, muscle pain, and cognitive dysfunction to refer...
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Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, which has 52 known species. Three species (Borrelia garinii, Borrelia...
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Lyme disease". American Family Physician. 85 (11): 1086–1093. PMID 22962880. "Lyme Disease Data and surveillance". Lyme Disease. Centers for Disease Control...
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brain tumor, stroke, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, myasthenia gravis, and Lyme disease. The condition normally gets better by itself, with most achieving normal...
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antibodies are detectable in most cases upon hospitalization. Patients with Lyme disease who are treated with appropriate antibiotics usually recover rapidly...
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It is used to treat bacterial pneumonia, acne, chlamydia infections, Lyme disease, cholera, typhus, and syphilis. It is also used to prevent malaria. Doxycycline...
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Borrelia burgdorferi (category Lyme disease)
the causative agents of Lyme disease in humans. Along with a few similar genospecies, some of which also cause Lyme disease, it makes up the species...
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Planning Region. The population was 2,352 at the 2020 census. Lyme is the eponym of Lyme disease. In February 1665, the portion of the territory of the Saybrook...
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with suspected Lyme-like disease should be treated with an appropriate course of antibiotics because early treatment of Lyme disease invariably results...
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Morgellons (redirect from Moregellons Lyme hypothesis)
notion that it is an infectious disease, disputes that it is psychological, and proposes an association with Lyme disease. Controversy has resulted; publications...
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her children also have chronic Lyme. Hadid's memoir Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease was published in 2017. Halberg...
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Borrelia (category Lyme disease)
spirochete phylum. Several species cause Lyme disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks. Other species of...
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Babesiosis (redirect from Red water disease)
babesiosis, so it often presents with other tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. After trypanosomes, Babesia is thought to be the second-most common...
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Look up lyme in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lyme or LYME may refer to: Lyme disease, an infectious disease carried by ticks caused by bacteria of...
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for about 25% of cases of facial palsy in areas where Lyme disease is common. In the U.S., Lyme is most common in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states...
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Erythema migrans (category Lyme disease)
chronicum migrans is an expanding rash often seen in the early stage of Lyme disease, and can also (but less commonly) be caused by southern tick-associated...
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Western fence lizard (section Lyme disease)
Studies have shown that cases of Lyme disease are rarer in areas where the lizards are found. When ticks carrying Lyme disease feed on these lizards' blood...
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Babesia (redirect from Texas Fever (disease))
causative agent of Lyme disease. For reasons that remain unclear, in areas endemic to both Lyme disease and babesiosis, Lyme disease transmission prevails...
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Transverse myelitis (category Autoimmune diseases)
pneumoniae, Bartonella henselae, and the types of Borrelia that cause Lyme disease. Lyme disease gives rise to neuroborreliosis which is seen in a small percentage...
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ISBN 9781550093780. Retrieved 2014-04-24. "Lyme disease rashes and look-alikes". Lyme Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Archived from the...
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Ixodes scapularis (section As disease vector)
is a vector for several diseases of animals, including humans (Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan virus disease, etc.) and is known as the...
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specimens show that Lyme disease was endemic well before the establishment of Plum Island laboratory. Additionally, Lyme disease was never a topic of...
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Witch's mark (section Lyme disease theory)
witch's mark also factors into the theory proposed by M. M. Drymon that Lyme disease is a diagnosis for both witches and witch affliction, finding that many...
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Rickets Roseola Rubella Sever's disease Tetanus Tuberculosis Volvulus Whooping cough Hepatitis A Scarlet fever (Scarletina) Lyme disease Xerophthalmia...
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Neuroborreliosis (redirect from Neurologic lyme disease)
manifestation of Lyme disease, neuroborreliosis is caused by a systemic infection of spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. Symptoms of the disease include erythema...
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Lyme Disease Awareness Month is observed every May internationally, especially in countries where Lyme disease is common. Lyme disease is caused by a tick-borne...
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Tick (section Tick-borne disease)
the Heartland virus. In the United States, Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the country. Some species, notably the Australian...
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Post-exposure prophylaxis (section Lyme disease)
for prevention against Lyme disease following tick bite: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis". BMC Infectious Diseases. 21 (1): 1141. doi:10...
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the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Groups of patients and physicians who support the concept of chronic Lyme disease have organized to lobby for...
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