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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Tick-Borne Diseases > Lyme Disease
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Spirochaetales Infections > Borrelia Infections > Lyme Disease

Preferred term

Lyme Disease  

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Entry terms

  • B. burgdorferi Infection
  • B. burgdorferi Infections
  • Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
  • Borrelia burgdorferi Infections
  • Borreliosis, Lyme
  • Lyme Borreliosis

Note

  • coord IM with specific Borrelia (IM)

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

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

In other languages

  • Lymen borrelioosi

    Finnish

  • Borrelia burgdorferi -spirokeetan aiheuttama borrelioosi
  • borreliosis Lyme
  • LB
  • Lyme
  • Lymen tauti
  • morbus Lyme
  • Lyme-borrelios

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008193

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