"Lyme Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An infectious disease caused by a spirochete, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, which is transmitted chiefly by Ixodes dammini (see IXODES) and pacificus ticks in the United States and Ixodes ricinis (see IXODES) in Europe. It is a disease with early and late cutaneous manifestations plus involvement of the nervous system, heart, eye, and joints in variable combinations. The disease was formerly known as Lyme arthritis and first discovered at Old Lyme, Connecticut.
| Descriptor ID |
D008193
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.155.569 C01.252.400.825.480 C01.252.847.193.569
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| Concept/Terms |
Lyme Disease- Lyme Disease
- Disease, Lyme
- B. burgdorferi Infection
- B. burgdorferi Infections
- Lyme Borreliosis
- Borreliosis, Lyme
- Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
- Borrelia burgdorferi Infections
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lyme Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Milovic A, Bassam K, Shao H, Chatzistamou I, Tufts DM, Diuk-Wasser M, Barbour AG. Lactobacilli and other gastrointestinal microbiota of Peromyscus leucopus, reservoir host for agents of Lyme disease and other zoonoses in North America. PLoS One. 2020; 15(8):e0231801.
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Federizon J, Frye A, Huang WC, Hart TM, He X, Beltran C, Marcinkiewicz AL, Mainprize IL, Wills MKB, Lin YP, Lovell JF. Immunogenicity of the Lyme disease antigen OspA, particleized by cobalt porphyrin-phospholipid liposomes. Vaccine. 2020 01 22; 38(4):942-950.
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Liu Y, Nordone SK, Yabsley MJ, Lund RB, McMahan CS, Gettings JR. Quantifying the relationship between human Lyme disease and Borrelia burgdorferi exposure in domestic dogs. Geospat Health. 2019 05 14; 14(1).
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Wilson KD, Elston DM. What's eating you? Ixodes tick and related diseases, part 3: coinfection and tick-bite prevention. Cutis. 2018 May; 101(5):328-330.
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Wilson KD, Elston DM. What's eating you? Ixodes tick and related diseases, part 1: life cycle, local reactions, and lyme disease. Cutis. 2018 Mar; 101(3):187-190.
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Wills MKB, Kirby AM, Lloyd VK. Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR. J Vis Exp. 2018 02 04; (132).
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Watson SC, Liu Y, Lund RB, Gettings JR, Nordone SK, McMahan CS, Yabsley MJ. A Bayesian spatio-temporal model for forecasting the prevalence of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi, causative agent of Lyme disease, in domestic dogs within the contiguous United States. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0174428.
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Cotton CH, Castelo-Soccio L. Pink-violaceous patches on the lower back, buttocks, and thighs of a 13-year-old girl. JAMA Pediatr. 2014 Jun; 168(6):575-6.
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Shockman S, Elston DM, Erickson Q. What's eating you? Turkey mite and Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum). Cutis. 2014 Feb; 93(2):64-6.
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Costello JM, Alexander ME, Greco KM, Perez-Atayde AR, Laussen PC. Lyme carditis in children: presentation, predictive factors, and clinical course. Pediatrics. 2009 May; 123(5):e835-41.