Diseases

Lyme Disease

An infectious disease caused by a spirochete, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, which is transmitted chiefly by Ixodes dammini (see IXODES) and pacificus ticks in the United States and Ixodes ricinis (see IXODES) in Europe. It is a disease with early and late cutaneous manifestations plus involvement of the nervous system, heart, eye, and joints in variable combinations. The disease was formerly known as Lyme arthritis and first discovered at Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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An infectious disease caused by a spirochete, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, which is transmitted chiefly by Ixodes dammini (see IXODES) and pacificus ticks in the United States and Ixodes ricinis (see IXODES) in Europe. It is a disease with early and late cutaneous manifestations plus involvement of the nervous system, heart, eye, and joints in variable combinations. The disease was formerly known as Lyme arthritis and first discovered at Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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9 entry terms
  • B. burgdorferi Infection
  • Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
  • Lyme Borreliosis
  • B. burgdorferi Infections
  • Borrelia burgdorferi Infections
  • Borreliosis, Lyme
  • Disease, Lyme
  • Lyme Arthritis
  • Arthritis, Lyme

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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coord IM with specific Borrelia (IM)

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History Note

85; was LYME ARTHRITIS see ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS l979-84

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  • Arthritis, Infectious (1979-1984)
  • Spirochaetales Infections (1982-1984)

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  2. C01w.150.252w.400w.794.352.250w
  3. C01w.920.930w.513w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Lyme Disease. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008193. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008193
  2. Lyme Disease. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
  3. Lyme Disease. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201989