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MeSH Heading: Lyme Disease
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.400.536; C01.150.252.400.794.352.250; C01.920.930.513
Unique ID: D008193
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008193
Annotation: coord IM with specific Borrelia (IM)
Scope Note: 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.
Entry Version: LYME DIS
Entry Term(s): B. burgdorferi Infection; Borrelia burgdorferi Infection; Lyme Arthritis; Lyme Borreliosis
NLM Classification #: WC 406
Previous Indexing: Arthritis, Infectious (1979-1984); Spirochaetales Infections (1982-1984)
Public MeSH Note: 85; was LYME ARTHRITIS see ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS 1979-84
Online Note: search ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS 1979-84
History Note: 85; was LYME ARTHRITIS see ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS l979-84
Date Established: 1985/01/01
Date of Entry: 1984/04/06
Revision Date: 2019/06/13

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

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congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

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immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0012774
Scope Note: 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.
Terms: Lyme Disease Preferred Term
Term UI T024416
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag EPO
ThesaurusID NLM (1985); Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
Term UI T000908576
Date10/03/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); B. burgdorferi Infection
Term UI T000908577
Date10/03/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Lyme Borreliosis
Term UI T024417
Date01/09/1991
LexicalTag EPO
ThesaurusID NLM (1992)

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