People presenting with erythema migrans are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease based on clinical assessment, without laboratory testing. Proportion of people diagnosed with Lyme disease based on ...

A 68 year old female presented to an urgent care center complaining of three weeks of intermittent low grade temperature accompanied by chills, diffuse myalgias, arthralgias and rash. The patient and ...

A 47-year-old man presented with a two-week history of an enlarging red patch on his left thigh, associated with low-grade fever. Although he had recently spent time outdoors while at his cabin in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Erythema migrans rashes in the United States most often do not appear as bullseyes, rather, only about a third ...

Lyme disease is increasing in both incidence and geographic distribution. Given that the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is difficult to culture in routine clinical laboratories, there has been ...

The tick was identified as Ixodes daminii (deer tick), but no parasites where found in its mouth. Lyme disease (LD), the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, is a systemic infection ...

A new study out of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Lyme Disease Research Center has revealed disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease between Black and White patients with the condition.

Artificial intelligence can be used to evaluate smartphone photos of suspicious rashes and detect Lyme disease earlier, according to a new study. Lyme disease affects roughly 300,000 people in the US ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 13-year-old boy without significant past medical history presented to the outpatient dermatology clinic for ...

Carson City Health and Human Services has confirmed a case of Lyme disease in the area. The person, who had not traveled outside Northern Nevada in the four weeks prior to symptom onset, may have been ...