Lyme Disease | CDC About Lyme disease information on symptoms, prevention, tick removal, testing, and what CDC is doing
Lyme disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic 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 and mid-Atlantic states It's also common in Europe and in south central and southeastern Canada
Lyme disease - Wikipedia 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] It is the most common disease spread by ticks in the Northern Hemisphere [11][8] Infections are most common in the spring and early summer [4]
Lyme Disease - Infectious Disease - Merck Manual Professional Edition Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia species Early symptoms include an erythema migrans rash, which may be followed weeks to months later by neurologic, cardiac, or joint abnormalities Diagnosis is primarily clinical in early-stage disease, but serologic testing can help diagnose cardiac, neurologic, and rheumatologic complications that occur later
Lyme Disease Fact Sheet - California Department of Public Health Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium known as a spirochete People get Lyme disease when a tick infected with the Lyme disease bacterium attaches and feeds on them Lyme disease was first recognized in the northeastern United States in the 1970s