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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 genus Ixodes. [4][9][10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]
“These ticks become infected with the Lyme bacterium by biting an infected rodent, bird or other animal.” Symptoms can show up within three to 30 days after a tick bite. Most people develop a ...
In the 1970s, an epidemic of mysterious arthritis-like symptoms began spreading among children in the lushly wooded area around Lyme, Connecticut. Scientists traced the cause to tick bites and ...
Lyme disease is caused by the borrelia bacteria spread by infected blacklegged ticks, according to the CDC. The most common symptom found in 70 to 80% of cases is an expanding rash that may be ...
Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, [1] which has 52 known species. Three species (Borrelia garinii, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia burgdorferi s.s.) are the main causative agents of the disease in humans, [2] while a number of others have been implicated as possibly pathogenic. [3][4 ...
Lyme disease is spread to humans through the bite of infected ticks.The tick population is affected by weather and climate.Many factors determine tick population densities as well as diseased population densities of ticks so that no single factor can determine likelihood of exposure to tick-borne disease. [1]
“Ticks, like many of us, become more active during warmer weather," said Dr. Chitra Punjabi, the Health Department director of TB & Communicable Disease Control. "Ticks that carry Lyme disease ...
For an individual to acquire infection, the feeding tick must also be infected. Not all ticks are infected. In most places in the US, 30-50% of deer ticks will be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (the agent of Lyme disease). Other pathogens are much more rare. Ticks can be tested for infection using a highly specific and sensitive qPCR procedure.