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Lyme disease
Lyme disease (lym) n. a disease caused by a spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted by certain ticks of the genus Ixodes. Following a 3–32-day incubation period, a slowly extending red rash develops in approximately 75% of cases; intermittent symptoms include fever, malaise, headache and neck stiffness, and muscle and joint pains. Later, 60% of patients suffer intermittent attacks of arthritis, especially of the knees, each attack lasting months and recurring over several years. Treatment is with tetracycline or penicillin.
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Chronic Lyme disease research center established at Columbia University.(Special Report)(Brian Fallon)(Columbia University Lyme Disease Research Center)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...opening the Columbia University Lyme Disease Research Center, a state...of people suffering from Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases. The center will fast...shaped bacteria) that cause Lyme disease. The New Jersey-based...
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Lyme Disease Association & authors with Lyme promote Columbia University center on chronic Lyme.(Townsend's New York Observer)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Introduction to the LDA's Lyme Disease Update: Science, Policy...with a startling fact: Lyme disease has become the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the US. "Of the total number of vector-borne diseases now reported to the CDC, 95% are new Lyme cases." The media were ...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Lyme disease cases level off, officials report ; Maine's highest total for Lyme was in 2002, but some say the reporting doesn't count all cases.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Centers for Disease Control FOR MORE INFORMATION THE CENTERS for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/submenus/sub_lyme.htm) has information about Lyme disease nationally, including prevention advice, Lyme disease and animals...
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 "The Informed Constituent (Albany, NY)")
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Lyme disease: a hidden epidemic 'under our skin'.
Newspaper article from: The Informed Constituent (Albany, NY); 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of Clinical Infectious Diseases. In Dr. Virginia Sherr's 2005 article 'Lyme is a Brain Disease', she states "Losses...diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease with the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) on one...
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Lyme disease: this tick-borne illness can fool even experts. Don't let it ruin your summer fun!(disease+disorders)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...See map "At risk for Lyme disease?") Mimics Other Diseases Lyme disease, particularly in its early...because it mimics common diseases such as the flu. Doctors unfamiliar with Lyme disease may make an incorrect diagnosis...
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Lyme disease in Vermont.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Newspaper article from: Vermont Nurse Connection; 8/1/2007; 700+ words
; WHAT IS LYME DISEASE? Lyme disease is an infection caused by spirochetes...Third Stage The third stage of Lyme disease is called late disseminated Lyme disease...late Lyme disease may get: * Chronic Lyme arthritis--brief bouts of pain and...
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LYME DISEASE STARTS TO APPEAR IN AREA DOGS
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 12/29/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...positive for exposure to Lyme disease. The number is very small...borne disease. Cases of Lyme disease in animals that...director of the Vector Borne Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory...state when it comes to Lyme. "As we move wild animal...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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LYME DISEASE DILEMMA.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...doctor who diagnosed Lyme disease and prescribed megadoses...have chronic Lyme disease,'' Sellati said...s just not due to Lyme disease,'' said...view is that Lyme disease is too often overlooked...he and other ``Lyme-literate'' doctors...
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Lyme disease prevention and treatment.(THE EFFECTIVE PHYSICIAN)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Background The Infectious Diseases Society of America recently...identification and management of Lyme disease and other zoonoses associated...organisms responsible for causing Lyme disease, human granulocytic...HGA), and babesiosis. Lyme disease is caused by infection...
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Lyme disease.(Clinical Guidelines For Family Physicians)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 12/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA...treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, as well as on human...Here is a look at the Lyme disease recommendations...regimen used for early Lyme disease. Early Disseminated Disease...
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Lyme Disease
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Lyme disease Definition Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease transmitted through the bite...stage—the nymph—that causes most cases of Lyme disease. Nymphs are very active from spring through early summer, at the...
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Lyme disease
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis, a nonfatal bacterial infection that causes symptoms ranging...headache to a painful swelling of the joints. The first American case of Lyme's characteristic rash was documented in 1970 and the disease was first...
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lyme disease
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
lyme disease Condition caused by a spirochete (spiral-shaped bacterium) transmitted...fever, headache, and pain in the muscles and joints. Untreated, the disease can lead to chronic arthritis, and there may also be involvement of the...
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Vector-Borne Diseases
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...conditions suitable for outbreaks of diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever...patterns of vector-borne disease occurrence. Parasitic and bacterial diseases, such as malaria and Lyme disease, tend to produce a high disease...
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Contagious Diseases
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...thirty new contagious diseases emerged and the pathogens...of the newly emergent diseases are deadly –...Ebola, and Marburg disease and several other viral...legionnaires disease and Lyme disease. Children are the main...of many of these new diseases. The development ...
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