Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
About 63,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2022, according to a report released last month. That’s a nearly 70% jump in the number of ...
What is Lyme disease? The CDC says Lyme is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S., caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi or, less commonly, Borrelia mayonii. Humans get it through ...
Though you may not know you were a tick's target right away, these signs and symptoms of Lyme disease can help you determine when to seek medical treatment. Lyme disease is caused by infected ...
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. [1]
Erythema migrans or erythema chronicum migrans is an expanding rash often seen in the early stage of Lyme disease, and can also (but less commonly) be caused by southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI). [1] [2] It can appear anywhere from one day to one month after a tick bite.
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.
Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has shown that the disease costs the U.S. health care system up to $1.3 billion a year
Diversity and availability of hosts and predators can be affected by deforestation and habitat fragmentation. [8] Because individual ticks can harbor more than one disease-causing agent, patients can be infected with more than one pathogen at the same time, compounding the difficulty in diagnosis and treatment. [2]