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Lyme disease - an easy to understand guide covering causes, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment and prevention plus additional in depth medical information.
in an area depends on the number of ticks present and how often the ticks are infected with the bacteria. In certain areas of New York, where Lyme disease is common, over half of the ticks are infected. Lyme disease has been reported most often in the northeastern United States, but it...
Central clearing usually occurs after a few days of illness. The lesion can be homogeneous (have no central clearing) in up to 59% of cases. Appears at the site of the tick bite Fever Myalgia Arthralgia Headache Anorexia Fatigue Lymphadenopathy Early disseminated disease[1,3,7,10,11...
Inflammation in your brain and spinal cord Shooting pains, numbness, or tingling in your hands or feet You could also form neurologic Lyme disease. That's when symptoms affect your peripheral or central nervous systems. This tends to happen most in early disseminated Lyme disease (more on the ...
Lyme disease (or borreliosis) is a tick-borne infection caused by certain species of the Borrelia genus (B. burgdorferi in the US; predominantly B. afzelii and B. garinii in Asia and Europe). There are three stages of Lyme disease. Stage I (early localized disease) is characterized by ery...
Lyme disease is a tick-borne multisystem illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The clinical manifestations of illness are divided into three stages. Stage 1 is predominantly characterized by erythema migrans (EM), a skin rash that classi
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In Europe, the disease is most common in central Europe but occurs endemically from southern Sweden to the northern Mediterranean and from Portugal to Russia. Although sporadic cases of Lyme disease have been reported in eastern Russia, China, Korea, and Japan, it appears to be much less ...