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  2. Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash , known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards ...

  3. Erythema migrans - Wikipedia

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    This rash was known as erythema chronicum migrans, the skin rash found in early-stage Lyme disease. [18] In the 1920s, French physicians Garin and Bujadoux described a patient with meningoencephalitis, painful sensory radiculitis, and erythema migrans following a tick bite, and they postulated the symptoms were due to a spirochetal infection.

  4. 4 lesser-known Lyme disease symptoms to be aware of - AOL

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    About 30,000 cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by state and local health departments each year. However, the CDC says that many more ...

  5. Borrelia burgdorferi - Wikipedia

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    B. burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease and is why this bacteria is so important and being studied. It is most commonly transmitted from ticks to humans. Humans act as the tick's host for this bacteria. Lyme disease is a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by the Ixodes tick (also the vector for Babesia and Anaplasma).

  6. Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans - Wikipedia

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    Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) is a skin rash indicative of the third or late stage of European Lyme borreliosis.. ACA is a dermatological condition that takes a chronically progressive course and finally leads to a widespread atrophy of the skin.

  7. Bella Hadid’s Lyme Disease Battle in Her Own Words - AOL

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    The model was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012 at age 16. Bella, however, wasn’t the only one in her family who has been publicly battling the illness. ... “My skin changes color, I break ...

  8. Borrelia miyamotoi - Wikipedia

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    Borrelia miyamotoi is a bacterium of the spirochete phylum in the genus Borrelia.A zoonotic organism, B. miyamotoi can infect humans through the bite of several species of hard-shell Ixodes ticks, the same kind of ticks that spread B. burgdorferi, the causative bacterium of Lyme disease.

  9. Borrelia - Wikipedia

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    Eight are known to cause Lyme disease or Borreliosis. [6] The major Borrelia species causing Lyme disease are Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia garinii. [23] All species that cause Lyme disease are referred to collectively as B. burgdorferi sensu lato, [10] while B. burgdorferi itself is specified as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto.