Mesh term Lyme Disease
Browse to parent terms:Borrelia Infections
Tick-Borne Diseases
Description
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.Browse to child terms:
Erythema Chronicum Migrans
Lyme Neuroborreliosis
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