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Abstract
A condition caused by long-lasting and ongoing infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi resulting in progressive inflammatory neurologic, neuromuscular, and dermatologic manifestations including ENCEPHALITIS; MYELITIS; acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans; and ARTHRITIS.
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- Chronic Lyme Disease
- Post Lyme Disease Syndrome
- Lyme Disease, Chronic
- Post-Lyme Disease Syndromes
- Syndrome, Post-Lyme Disease
- Syndromes, Post-Lyme Disease
- Post-Treatment Lyme Disease
- Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
- Lyme Disease, Post-Treatment
- Post Treatment Lyme Disease
- Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
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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, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
2019
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- Lyme Disease (1989-2018)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000077342. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000077342
- Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96693925