"Lyme Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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An infectious disease caused by a spirochete, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, which is transmitted chiefly by Ixodes dammini (see IXODES) and pacificus ticks in the United States and Ixodes ricinis (see IXODES) in Europe. It is a disease with early and late cutaneous manifestations plus involvement of the nervous system, heart, eye, and joints in variable combinations. The disease was formerly known as Lyme arthritis and first discovered at Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Descriptor ID |
D008193
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MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.155.569 C01.252.400.825.480 C01.252.847.193.569
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Concept/Terms |
Lyme Disease- Lyme Disease
- Disease, Lyme
- B. burgdorferi Infection
- B. burgdorferi Infections
- Lyme Borreliosis
- Borreliosis, Lyme
- Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
- Borrelia burgdorferi Infections
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2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2017 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
2018 | 20 | 5 | 25 |
2019 | 14 | 3 | 17 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lyme Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Predicting Lyme Disease From Patients' Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Profiled With RNA-Sequencing. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:636289.
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Managing patients with COVID-19 infections: a first-hand experience from the Wuhan Mobile Cabin Hospital. Br J Gen Pract. 2020 05; 70(694):229-230.
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Response to Comment on "Self versus Nonself Discrimination by the Soluble Complement Regulators Factor H and FHL-1". J Immunol. 2019 10 15; 203(8):2029-2030.
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Human Seroprevalence of Tick-Borne Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Rickettsia Species in Northern California. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2019 12; 19(12):871-878.
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Overview on the treatment of Lyme disease in pregnancy. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2020 Apr; 155(2):220-222.
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The value of seroprevalence data as surveillance tool for Lyme borreliosis in the general population: the experience of Belgium. BMC Public Health. 2019 May 17; 19(1):597.
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[Epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis in France - both certainties and uncertainties]. Sante Publique. 2019 May 13; S1(HS):51-63.
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Symptom Resolution in Pediatric Patients With Lyme Disease. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2019 May 11; 8(2):170-173.
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Lipid Profiles in Lyme Borreliosis: A Potential Role for Apheresis? Horm Metab Res. 2019 May; 51(5):326-329.
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Comment on: Improving access to appropriate post-exposure doxycycline for Lyme disease prophylaxis: role for community pharmacies. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 05 01; 74(5):1464-1465.