Lyme disease is an illness caused by borrelia bacteria. Humans usually get Lyme disease from the bite of a tick carrying the bacteria. Ticks that can carry borrelia bacteria live throughout most of the United States. But Lyme disease is most common in the upper Midwest and the northeastern an...
Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America, and both the annual incidence and geographic range are increasing. The emergence ... T Levi,AM Kilpatrick,M Mangel,... - 《Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 5 Common Mechanisms of Bacterial Metal Homeostasis James A. Imlay Abstract Transition metals are required for the function of nearly half the enzymatic machinery of organisms. This is particularly challenging for bacteria, which ...
Treatment of nervous system Lyme disease depends on the severity and site of involvement. Although some data indicate that uncomplicated Lyme meningitis ca... JJ Halperin - 《Current Treatment Options in Neurology》 被引量: 264发表: 1999年 Nervous System Lyme Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment The ...
Laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease is difficult and presently dependent on detecting Borrelia burgdorferi-specific antibodies in patient serum with the d
Signaling through CD14 Attenuates the Inflammatory Response to Borrelia burgdorferi, the Agent of Lyme Disease Lyme disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder caused by the spirochetal bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. In vitro evidence suggests that binding of spiro... REI Benhnia,D Wroblewski,MN Akht...
With approximately one-third of their genomes consisting of linear and circular plasmids, the Lyme disease agent cluster of species has the most complex genomes among known bacteria. We report here a comparative analysis of plasmids in eleven Borreliella
Clinical Immunology NewsletterLim LCL, Fiordalisi MN, Schmitz JL, Folds JD. Evaluation of three commercial Lyme disease assay kits for detection of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi. Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists Annual meeting. July 1996....
Of 1770 children undergoing emergency department evaluation for Lyme disease, 362 (20.5%) children had Lyme disease. Of those with an available tick bite history, only a minority of those with Lyme disease had a recognized tick bite (60/325; 18.5%, 95% confidence interval 14.6-23.0%). Lack...
Lyme diseaseoptic disc oedemapapillitismeningitisneuroborreliosisA 57-year-old man was referred for a painful acute inferior visual field defect in his right eye. Fundus examination of the right eye revealed diffuse optic disc oedema compatible with a papillitis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings ...