Naomi P. O’Grady MD-Internal Medicine Services, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892-1662, USA Last update December 2022 Lyme Disease and the Expanded Spectrum of Blacklegged Tick-Borne Infections Edited byRobert P. Smith MD, MPH-Division of Infectious Diseases, Mai...
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And quite apart from the risks of infectious disease, health has social as well as biological determinants. — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023 Lyme disease, which can be transmitted by deer ticks, is the second most common infectious disease reported in Maine. — Scistarter...
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The colonization and infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a health problem of major importance in hospitals and long-term care facilities. Active decolonization measures are performed in MRSA-colonized patients; infections caused by MRSA are treated with vancomycin and other...
LePage Says Maine Is Prepared to Respond to Ebola, Infectious Disease OutbreakAUGUSTA, Maine " Gov. Paul LePage said in a statement Thursdaythat Maine is prepared to respond...Farwell, Jackie
2. Capable of being transmitted by infection: an infectious disease. 3. Capable of transmitting a disease; contagious: Is the patient still infectious? 4. Spreading or tending to spread from one to another: an infectious laugh. in·fec′tious·ly adv. in·fec′tious·ness n. American Herita...
Introduction The declining trend of infectious disease mortality in the United States was previously reported at the national and state levels.1,2 This decline has been previously attributed to several factors, including better health care and preventive measures such as vaccines.3 However, infectious ...
Lyme disease was recognized in 1976 because of close clustering of cases in Lyme, Connecticut, and it is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States. It has been reported in 49 states, but > 90% of cases occur from Maine to Virginia and in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and...