Lyme Disease in Urban Areas, Chicago
| Autor: | Stephen Martin, Dean A. Jobe, Jeffrey A. Nelson, Michael D. Adam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Veterinary medicine Urban Population Epidemiology Population letter lcsh:Medicine Tick lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Lyme disease Borrelia parasitic diseases Animals Humans Medicine lcsh:RC109-216 Significant risk Borrelia burgdorferi Letters to the Editor education Chicago education.field_of_study Ixodes biology business.industry lcsh:R bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification United States Infectious Diseases Ixodes scapularis Illinois business |
| Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 11, Pp 1799-1800 (2007) Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: | 1080-6059 1080-6040 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid1311.070801 |
| Popis: | To the Editor: Lyme disease is a multisystem illness caused by infection with the tickborne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Most infections in the United States occur in the Northeast and upper Midwest, and the midwestern focus now includes Illinois (1,2). Previously, the greatest risk of contracting Lyme disease in the Midwest was confined to the northernmost states (Wisconsin and Minnesota) and did not encroach into heavily populated areas around the city of Chicago. However, we showed recently that B. burgdorferi–infected Ixodes scapularis ticks were recovered from sites in Cook and DuPage counties (3), but the percentages of infected ticks were low ( |
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