 Lyme Disease
"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.
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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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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lyme Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Witmer FDW, Nawrocki TW, Hahn M. Modeling Geographic Uncertainty in Current and Future Habitat for Potential Populations of Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Alaska. J Med Entomol. 2022 05 11; 59(3):976-986.
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Pereira MJ, Wager B, Garrigues RJ, Gerlach E, Quinn JD, Dowdell AS, Osburne MS, Z?ckert WR, Kraiczy P, Garcia BL, Leong JM. Lipoproteome screening of the Lyme disease agent identifies inhibitors of antibody-mediated complement killing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 03 29; 119(13):e2117770119.
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Ho BM, Davis HE, Forrester JD, Sheele JM, Haston T, Sanders L, Lee MC, Lareau S, Caudell M, Davis CB. Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Tick-Borne Illness in the United States. Wilderness Environ Med. 2021 Dec; 32(4):474-494.
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Mosel MR, Rebman AW, Carolan HE, Montenegro T, Lovari R, Schutzer SE, Ecker DJ, Yang T, Ramadoss NS, Robinson WH, Soloski MJ, Eshoo MW, Aucott JN. Molecular Microbiological and Immune Characterization of a Cohort of Patients Diagnosed with Early Lyme Disease. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 12 17; 59(1).
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Samuels DS, Lybecker MC, Yang XF, Ouyang Z, Bourret TJ, Boyle WK, Stevenson B, Drecktrah D, Caimano MJ. Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics. Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2021; 42:223-266.
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Medina-P?rez DN, Wager B, Troy E, Gao L, Norris SJ, Lin T, Hu L, Hyde JA, Lybecker M, Skare JT. The intergenic small non-coding RNA ittA is required for optimal infectivity and tissue tropism in Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS Pathog. 2020 05; 16(5):e1008423.
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Mosel MR, Carolan HE, Rebman AW, Castro S, Massire C, Ecker DJ, Soloski MJ, Aucott JN, Eshoo MW. Molecular Testing of Serial Blood Specimens from Patients with Early Lyme Disease during Treatment Reveals Changing Coinfection with Mixtures of Borrelia burgdorferi Genotypes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 07; 63(7).
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Carriveau A, Poole H, Thomas A. Lyme Disease. Nurs Clin North Am. 2019 06; 54(2):261-275.
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Kini V, Ho PM. Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence: A Review. JAMA. 2018 12 18; 320(23):2461-2473.
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Springer YP, Johnson PTJ. Large-scale health disparities associated with Lyme disease and human monocytic ehrlichiosis in the United States, 2007-2013. PLoS One. 2018; 13(9):e0204609.
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