The tick was identified as Ixodes daminii (deer tick), but no parasites where found in its mouth. Lyme disease (LD), the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, is a systemic infection ...
Histopathologic finding of a dermal hypersensitivity reaction, along with the characteristic clinical appearance, confirmed the diagnosis of erythema migrans (EM). Introduced in 1909, EM was described ...
THURSDAY, July 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Only 34 percent of patients with erythema migrans >5 cm are positive for Lyme disease by a standard two-tier testing (STTT) algorithm, and of patients ...