Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease
What Is Lyme Disease? (Other Names: Lyme arthritis, Tick-borne Borreliosis)
Lyme disease, caused by the bite of a deer tick, is an illness that can affect many systems in the body.
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Lyme disease is most commonly characterized by a distinctive rash, flu-like symptoms and aching joints. Not all deer ticks in a high-risk area are infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
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Lyme disease, which is also called Lyme borreliosis, is a vector-borne disease. This term means that it is delivered from one host to another.
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Lyme Disease
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a nonfatal bacterial infection that causes symptoms ranging from fever and headache to a painful swelling of the joints.
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Lyme disease (LD) is a bacterial infection caused by infected ticks, usually by a deer tick bite. The disease is spread to humans from contact with the tick; it is not spread from one human to another.
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Lyme disease is a progressive, systemic illness that is caused by bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) and is usually transmitted by the bite of an infected deer tick. Infection may result in flu-like symptoms (e.g.
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LYME DISEASE ANTIBODY - A blood test which measures for the presence of Lyme disease antibodies. A nonreactive or serum titer of less than 1:256 is normal. A rising titer over time is more diagnostic.
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Lyme disease
Definition:
Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease characterized by a skin rash, joint inflammation, and flu-like symptoms, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by the bite of a deer tick. See also tick removal.
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Public awareness about Lyme disease has heightened in recent years and people in high-risk areas know to look for the telltale bull's-eye rash. But what do you really know about the disease and how do... More
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Lyme Disease
This is a relatively new infectious illness, first identified in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1975. The disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted by the bite of infected ticks.
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Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bite of an infected tick. The tick is so small that you may not notice the tick or its bite. Many ticks do not carry Lyme disease. Even if a tick is infected, it may not transfer the disease to you.
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Lyme Disease - Secondary
Alternate Names
: Early Disseminated Lyme Disease, Stage 2 Lyme Disease
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Lyme disease
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Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans by ticks that live on animals such as deer or sheep, mice, hedgehogs, pheasants, hamsters and squirrels.
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Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria that live in deer ticks and are transmitted through a tick bite into a person's bloodstream.
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[RASH CRITICAL TO CORRECT DIAGNOSIS OF LYME DISEASE WHICH IS SPREAD - NOT CAUSED - BY TICKS]
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LYME DISEASE
SYMPTOMS"Between 2 and 32 days after the bite, symptoms appear: fatigue, flu-like symptoms, stiff neck, backache, headache, nausea, and vomiting.
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Lyme disease
A disease spread by deer ticks characterized at first by a skin rash, headache and fever, and later by arthritis and heart damage.
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Lyme disease is contracted from the bite of an infected deer tick. A red, enlarging ring is the first sign of infection. This mark may be itchy, but usually causes no irritation.
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Antibiotics for Lyme disease
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Lung Ventilation Study (Pulmonary Ventilation Scan)
Luteinizing Hormone (LH)
Lyme Disease Serology (Lyme Disease Antibody)
Lyme Disease Antibody
Lymph Node Biopsy
Lymph Node Culture
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ImuLyme (Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface protein A [OspA]) - Development discontinued Vaccine to prevent or reduce the occurrence of Lyme disease.
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They include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, Colorado tick fever, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, tularemia, Q fever, and tick paralysis.
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Viral arthritis
Gonococcal arthritis
Other bacterial infections (non-gonococcal bacterial arthritis)
Tertiary Lyme disease (the late stage)
Tuberculous arthritis
Fungal infections such as blastomycosis ...
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Many patients have no underlying disorders while others who develop fibromyalgia may have conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, spinal arthritis or Lyme disease.
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