DOES LYME-DISEASE OCCUR IN THE SOUTH - A SURVEY OF EMERGING TICK-BORNE INFECTIONS IN THE REGION

Authors
BARBOUR AG
Citation
Ag. Barbour, DOES LYME-DISEASE OCCUR IN THE SOUTH - A SURVEY OF EMERGING TICK-BORNE INFECTIONS IN THE REGION, The American journal of the medical sciences, 311(1), 1996, pp. 34-40
Citations number
66
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
The American journal of the medical sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029629
Volume
311
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
34 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9629(1996)311:1<34:DLOITS>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
Lyme disease is the most common arthropod-borne infection in the Unite d States. However, the risk of infection varies widely by geographic r egion. In the South, Borrelia burgdorferi has been identified in ticks and small mammals, but transmission of the agent to humans has not be en documented. The Lyme disease-like disorder reported from the region may have another etiology.