The Manifestations of Lyme Disease

By Olga Gnatovych, RDH, BA, Victoria Benvenuto, RDH, EdM

Lyme disease—which is spread via tick bite—is the most common vector-borne disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi in the United States.^1,2 In 2017, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 42,743 confirmed cases of Lyme disease—an increase of 17% from 2016.² While tick-borne infections are most common in the summer, due to increasingly warmer temperatures, ticks may still be active in the fall.^3–7 The total number of Lyme disease cases is unknown because of the high prevalence of misdiagnoses.

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