Lime Disease
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme disease was an illness that mainly
affects the skin, nervous system, heart, and joints. The borrelia species is part of the
eubacterial phylum of spirochetes. Containted within a protoplasmic cylinder is a cell
membrane, followed by wavy flagella, and then an outer membrane. The genes
encoded within the outer membrane are located on plasmids which allows the organism
to make antigenic changes ...
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uses white-footed mice, mosquitoes, and deer as their hosts.
This disease does not discriminate between sex and age; male and female, as
well as old and young are affected. It is widely distributed around the world in the
temperate zones3. A person is infected when a black-legged tick imbeds itself into
them while out in the open in wodded and forested areas. This usually occurs between
the months of May and July. Tick abundance is associated with humidity, temperature,
landscape slope, forested areas with sandy soils, and the extremity of residential
development?.
Generally, lyme disease occurs in stages, which are not always clear-cut; they
may overlap. The first stage involves the injection of B. burgdorferi by the tick. Shortly
thereafter (3 days to 4 months), it spreads throughout the skin, causing erythema
migrans (EM), which is basically a skin lesion. This lesion can vary in size, body site,
color, duration, intensity, and recurrence. Erythema ...
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