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Article: Research conducted at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated our knowledge about lyme disease.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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Current study results from the report, 'Transmission dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi s.s. during the key third day of feeding by nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae),' have been published. "Nymphal Ixodes scapularis Say are the principal vectors of Lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto) in the eastern United States," scientists in the United States report (see also Lyme Disease).
"Physicians frequently face the decision of whether or not to administer prophylactic antibiotics to human tick bite victims in Lyme disease endemic regions, based on the overall probability that such bites will result in infection with B. burgdorferi s.s. ...