Tickborne Infections: Beyond Just Lyme Disease

Members of the Borrelia genus are associated with two main clinical syndromes: Lyme borreliosis and relapsing fever. With a few exceptions, these spirochetes share many similarities, including transmission via blood feeding arthropods, environmental maintenance among rodent populations, and interruption of the lifecycle following human infection. As a result of the high annual incidence of Lyme disease in both the United States (approximately 300,000 cases) and Europe (approximately 85,000 cases from 18 countries), Lyme borreliosis and its causative agents (primarily Borrelia burgdorferi in the United States and Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii in Europe) often garner the most attention from both the medical community and public forums.
Source: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research