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    Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a vector-borne disease caused by Borrelia bacteria, which are spread by ticks in the genus Ixodes. The...
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  • Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is the name used by some people with non-specific symptoms, such as fatigue, muscle pain, and cognitive dysfunction to refer...
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    Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, which has 52 known species. Three main species (Borrelia garinii...
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    brain tumor, stroke, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, myasthenia gravis, and Lyme disease. The condition normally gets better by itself, with most achieving normal...
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    Lyme disease". American Family Physician. 85 (11): 1086–1093. PMID 22962880. "Lyme Disease Data and surveillance". Lyme Disease. Centers for Disease Control...
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    her children also have chronic Lyme. Hadid's memoir Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease was published in 2017. Halberg...
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  • notion that it is an infectious disease, disputes that it is psychological, and proposes an association with Lyme disease. Controversy has resulted; publications...
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    Planning Region. The population was 2,352 at the 2020 census. Lyme is the eponym of Lyme disease. In February 1665, the portion of the territory of the Saybrook...
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  • Look up lyme in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lyme or LYME may refer to: Lyme disease, an infectious disease carried by ticks caused by bacteria of...
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    Borrelia burgdorferi (category Lyme disease)
    the causative agents of Lyme disease in humans. Along with a few similar genospecies, some of which also cause Lyme disease, it makes up the species...
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  • Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease is a 2008 film advocating for the existence of "chronic Lyme disease", a controversial and unrecognized...
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    It is used to treat bacterial pneumonia, acne, chlamydia infections, Lyme disease, cholera, typhus, and syphilis. It is also used to prevent malaria. Doxycycline...
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    is a vector for several diseases of animals, including humans (Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan virus disease, etc.) and is known as the...
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    Babesiosis (redirect from Red water disease)
    babesiosis, so it often presents with other tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. After trypanosomes, Babesia is thought to be the second-most common...
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    with suspected Lyme-like disease should be treated with an appropriate course of antibiotics because early treatment of Lyme disease invariably results...
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    Borrelia (category Lyme disease)
    spirochete phylum. Several species cause Lyme disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks. Other species of...
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    Studies have shown that cases of Lyme disease are rarer in areas where the lizards are found. When ticks carrying Lyme disease feed on these lizards' blood...
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    Erythema migrans (category Lyme disease)
    chronicum migrans is an expanding rash often seen in the early stage of Lyme disease, and can also (but less commonly) be caused by southern tick-associated...
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  • invertebrate vectors. The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme Disease, is transmitted by ticks and members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia...
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    2014-04-24. "Lyme disease rashes and look-alikes". Lyme Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved April 18, 2019. "Lyme disease: erythema...
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    Lyme Disease Awareness Month is observed every May internationally, especially in countries where Lyme disease is common. Lyme disease is caused by a tick-borne...
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    witch's mark also factors into the theory proposed by M. M. Drymon that Lyme disease is a diagnosis for both witches and witch affliction, finding that many...
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    causing a resurgence in zoonotic disease across the world. Examples of vector-borne zoonotic diseases include: Lyme disease Plague West Nile virus Many factors...
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    causative agent of Lyme disease. For reasons that remain unclear, in areas endemic to both Lyme disease and babesiosis, Lyme disease transmission prevails...
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  • antibodies are detectable in most cases upon hospitalization. Patients with Lyme disease who are treated with appropriate antibiotics usually recover rapidly...
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    specimens show that Lyme disease was endemic well before the establishment of Plum Island laboratory. Additionally, Lyme disease was never a topic of...
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    "Touched by Time: (book review) Thalia "growing stronger" after Lyme". LymeDisease.org. 2 January 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014...
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  • unrecognized diagnosis "chronic Lyme disease". ILADS was formed by advocates for the recognition of "chronic Lyme disease" including physicians, patients...
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  • for prevention against Lyme disease following tick bite: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis". BMC Infectious Diseases. 21 (1): 1141. doi:10...
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    the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Groups of patients and physicians who support the concept of chronic Lyme disease have organized to lobby for...
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