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Terme préférentiel

Lyme Disease  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Définition

  • 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.

Synonyme(s)

  • B. burgdorferi Infection
  • Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
  • Lyme Borreliosis

Traductions

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-GMZGP6H8-T

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RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Date de création 06/04/1984, dernière modification le 13/06/2019