| Lyme disease vaccine |
A vaccine that uses as an antigen either the outer surface protein (OspA) of Borrelia burgdorferi (the spirochete that causes Lyme disease) or the decorin protein of the same microbe. Lyme vaccine is available in the
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| Lyme a. |
see under disease.
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| Lyme b. |
a general term encompassing a number of diseases that are caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and have similar manifestations, including Lyme disease, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, Bannwarth's syndrome, and erythema chronicum migrans.
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| Lyme c. |
cardiac involvement, generally transient, in Lyme disease; it usually manifests as some degree of atrioventricular block but ventricular tachycardia and left ventricular dysfunction may occur.
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| Lyme d. |
a recurrent, multisystemic disorder caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, having the ticks Ixodes scapularis and I. pacificus as vectors. It begins in most cases with erythema chronicum migrans (at least 5 cm in diameter), followed by a variety of highly variable manifestations, including myalgia, arthritis of the large joints, and involvement of the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
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