Lime Disease
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Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme di ....
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.... to 24 hours before dividing into two
cells. B. burgdorferi is approximately 20 to um long and 0.2 to 0.25 um wide, with 7 to
11 flagella. More than 30 proteins are contained within B. burgdorferi1. This bacteria
uses white-footed mice, mosquitoes, and deer as their hosts.
This disease does not discriminate between sex and age; male and female, as
well as old and young are affected. It is widely distributed around the world in the
temperate zones3. A person is infected when a blac ....
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