Estimation of cumulative number of post-treatment Lyme disease cases in the US, 2016 and 2020
Abstract Background Lyme disease (LD) is an infectious multi-system illness caused by the bacterial genus Borrelia and spread by bites of infected ticks. Although most patients are successfully treated by timely antibiotic therapy, it is broadly accepted that a sizeable number of patients experience...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Public Health |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6681-9 |