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What is the first thing you think of when you hear Lyme disease? I asked my brother, just for fun, to see what his response would be, and his response was too good not to share. He said “Yeah, Lyme disease is when limes turn gross.” I can’t make this up! Sorry, Landon, not quite. Lyme disease is a rather increasing epidemic, not only in Iowa but also in great numbers on the east coast states. Throughout this paper, I will be discussing what Lyme disease is, the microbiology of Lyme disease

Lyme’s disease, is a disease that is transmitted to humans by blacklegged ticks. The first case of Lyme’s disease was first reported in Old Lyme, CT, hence the name. A tick picks up the virus from biting deer and mice infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. White footed mice are the most common carriers of the disease. The virus is then transferred from tick to human through the bite from an infected tick. Generally the tick must remain attached to the human for 36-48 hours for the bacterium

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorfer, this bacterium is transmitted to humans through ticks. Borrelia burgdorferi is a gram negative bacterium that belongs to the spirochetes class, its usually 1um wide but can be up to 10-25um long. Some of the structures that Borrelia burgdorferi have are the flagellum, which allows the bacterium to migrate through viscous fluids (i.e. blood) and burrow through tissues, the bacterium also has outer surface proteins that are OspA and OspC which

provide recommendations for antimicrobial prophylactic treatment of Lyme disease once a patient encounters a tick bite. Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by Ixodes dammini, otherwise known as the deer tick3. B. burgdorferi lives in the midgut of the deer tick, and becomes active after a tick’s gut is filled with warm blood from a host. Ticks are only able to transmit B. burgdorferi after they have been attached and taken a “blood meal” from the host

Annotated Bibliography Dworkin MS, Schwan TG, Anderson DE, Borchardt SM. Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever. Infectious disease clinics of North America. 2008;22(3):449-viii. doi:10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.006. Systematic Review This journal article gives a broad overview of tick borne relapsing fever. It explains the causative agents and here they are respectively found and as well as the vectors and their environments. The article also shows an epidemiological spot map of the U.S. and TBRF cases. Christensen

This same climate also creates the wet, green environment that increases the prevalence of ticks. Possible explanations for the pattern of this disease An environmental explanation for regional Lyme disease variability, such as weather is proposed because similar annual patterns of tick infection rates have been observed in forests dominated by species other than oaks

Lyme disease is a vector transmitted disease that is carried by two different types of ticks. The two types of ticks are the ixodes scapularis which is found predominantly in the eastern United States, and ixodes pacificus which is found along the west coast of the United States (Ogden, Lindsay, Morshed, Sockett, & Artsob, 2009). Taken the fact that

Lyme disease is vector borne disease that is caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. It is transmitted to humans by the nymphal stage of scapularis ticks (Levi et al, 2012). It is widespread in North America, and is often times discussed about in relation to deer population. While ticks use deer often as a reproductive host, this article discusses that deer are not the only factor that affect the prevalence of Lyme disease. Small mammals and predation play a major role in the emergence of this

disease has become an important public health problem in the Midwest and Northeastern United States with incidence rates steadily increasing. Borrelia burgodoferi is transmitted to humans and mammals by the Ixodes scapularis known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick and the Ixodes pacificus known as the

the disease was established in 1977, although the complications of the causative agent lasted an additional five years, after which medical scientists identified the deer tick midgut Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete as the supposed causative agent (Lyme Research Alliance, n.d.). In the US, the illness is the most prevalent of all tick-borne infections. The disease has been termed in New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Maryland