Lyme disease

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• Synonyms

  • Borellia burgdorferi
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Borelliosis

• Causes

  • Tic bite
  • Borrelia infection

• Effects

  • Erythema chronicum migrans
  • Polyarthralgia
  • Generalised lymphadenopathy
  • Infective conjunctivitis
  • Interstitial keratitis
  • Uveitis
  • Myocarditis
  • Pharyngitis
  • Orchitis
  • Myositis
  • Septic arthritis
  • Tendonopathy
  • Bannwarth syndrome
  • Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
  • Bell palsy
  • Mononeuritis multiplex
  • Giemsa stain positive
  • Borrelia lymphocytoma

• Parents

  • Borrelia infection
  • Tic-borne bacterial disease

• Treatments

  • Doxycycline
  • Azithromycin

• Description

  • " Spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia. Classified as a zoonosis
  • as it is transmitted to humans from a natural reservoir among rodents by ticks that feed on both sets of hosts."