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Lyme Disease

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Definition: 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.  coord IM with specific Borrelia (IM)   
Examples Erythema Chronicum Migrans; Lyme Neuroborreliosis 		Other names Disease, Lyme; Borreliosis, Lyme; Arthritis, Lyme; Lyme Arthritis; Lyme Borreliosis
 
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSource
bba64 protein, Borrelia burgdorferi  0   *Antigens, Bacterial Lyme Disease. PLoS One. 2011;6(5):e19536
BapA protein, Borrelia burgdorferi  0   *Bacterial Proteins Lyme Disease. Microbiology 2003 May;149(Pt 5);1113-25
p37 antigen, Borrelia  0   *Bacterial Proteins Antigens, Bacterial Lyme Disease Borrelia burgdorferi Group. Immunity 1997 May:6(5):531-9
p35 antigen, Borrelia  0   *Bacterial Proteins Antigens, Bacterial Lyme Disease Borrelia burgdorferi Group. Immunity 1997 May;6(5):531-9
lipoprotein lp6.6, Borrelia burgdorferi  0   *Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins *Lipoproteins Lyme Disease. Infect Immun 1997 Feb;65(2):412-21
OspE protein, Borrelia burgdorferi  0   *Antigens, Bacterial *Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins *Lipoproteins Lyme Disease. Infect Immun 1994 Jan;62(1):290-8
OspB protein, Borrelia burgdorferi  149719-59-5   *Antigens, Bacterial *Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins Lyme Disease. Gene 1992 Oct 12;120(1):127-8
OspA protein  0   *Antigens, Surface *Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins *Bacterial Vaccines *Lipoproteins Lyme Disease Borrelia burgdorferi Group. J Immunol 1992;148(1):218

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