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SUBMITTER: Oliver JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC208811 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliver J H JH Lin T T Gao L L Clark K L KL Banks C W CW Durden L A LA James A M AM Chandler F W FW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030919 20
Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease (LD), is a tick-borne zoonotic infection of biomedical significance, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) spirochetes and transmitted by Ixodes species ticks. It usually circulates among wildlife vertebrate reservoirs and vector ticks but may infect humans, causing multisystem problems. In far western and northern North America, the host reservoirs, tick vectors, and genospecies of Borrelia are well known but not so in the southern U.S., where there ...[more]