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.
    

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Lyme Disease

Catalogue

The widening circle : a Lyme disease pioneer tells her story / Polly Murray.

Lyme disease in Israel / Karl Holubar.

Doctors, patients and diagnosis : who says I have a disease? / James Blandford.

Beware the ticking lyme bomb : lessons learned from lyme disease survivors / Craig Sowers.

Die Lyme-Borreliose als "Culture-bound Syndrome" bei den Azande Zentralafrikas : Beispiel einer ethnozentrischen Fehlinterpretation / Armin Prinz.