Lyme disease

Named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut, USA, where a number of cases were identified in 1975.

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• Homophone: lime disease

Lyme disease (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Infection by one of three or more subspecies of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by four species of tick in genus Ixodes. Symptoms include a rash followed by fever, joint pain, and headaches.

• Lyme neuroborreliosis

• chronic Lyme disease

• Ixodes ricinus (sheep tick, castor bean tick, of western Eurasia).
• Ixodes persulcatus (taiga tick, of China)
• Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick, deer tick, of eastern North America)
• Ixodes pacificus (western black-legged tick, of western North America)
• Peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse)

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