Lyme Disease

Types of Arthritis: Spondyloarthropathies, Lyme Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The spondyloarthropathies are a collection of disorders that tend to affect the spine and include: Reiter's syndrome, psoriatic arthritis, intestinal arthropathy, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthropathy, and the most common type, ankylosing

Lyme Disease : Biology of the Bug, Diagnosing Lyme Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Transmission of the spirochete that causes Lyme disease is a biological back-and-forth between ticks in different stages of their life cycle and hosts, which are usually mice and deer. The tick feeds only once during each of its three stages - larva

Lyme Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Most Lyme disease patients can be successfully treated with standard antibiotics. FDA approved Ceftin (cefuroxime axetil) Dec. 19, 1996, for the treatment of early Lyme disease. Recommended regimens of oral antibiotics can speed the healing of the rash

Lyme Disease : Treatment, Vaccines
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A vaccine is usually made from a killed microbe, or part of it, that signals the immune system to mount an attack. A Lyme disease vaccine containing a protein from the surface of the spirochete, called Osp A, is being evaluated in humans.

Lyme Disease
by CDC
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans.

Getting Lyme Disease to Take a Hike
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Before you heard for the wilds this summer, you may want to find out how to prevent a disease spread by tick bite whose symptoms are similar to arthrit. Now that summer is here, many people are hitting the hiking trail.

Lyme Disease Facts
by National Institute of Health
Lyme disease is still mistaken for other ailments, and it continues to pose many other challenges, including the following: it can be difficult to diagnose, it can be troublesome to treat in its later phases, a number of different ticks can transmit

Lyme Disease: Risks, Symptoms and Treatment
by Health Canada
Lyme disease is a serious illness spread by the bite of certain species of ticks. Ticks are insect-like in appearance and feed on the blood of animals, including humans. For most Canadians, the risk of exposure to Lyme disease is fairly low.

Lyme Disease Vaccine
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A new vaccine and improved screening tests may curb the rising numbers of Lyme infections. But simple precautions are still necessary. The most common carrier of Lyme disease in the United States is the deer tick, or black-legged tick.