Borrelia Burgdorferi Lyme Disease

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Borrelia Burgdorferi(Lyme Disease)

• Joenay M. Latoya B.
• Diamante C.
• 8-5-06
• Elmhurst College Math Science Academy

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What is Borrelia Burgdorferi?

• Borrelia Burgdorferi is a inflammatory disease
  that is caused a spirochete that is transferred
  from the body of a tick to the human through a
  bite.

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How is Lyme Disease transmitted?

• Lyme disease is transmitted through ticks
• Types of ticks that spread the disease Deer
  Ticks and Western Black-Legged Ticks.
• Location of Ticks
• Deer Tick is in the northeastern and north
  central part of the united states.
• Western Black-Legged tick is in the pacific coast
  by the south eastern states.

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Symptoms of Lyme Disease

• The human symptoms of Lyme Disease occurs in
  three stages.
• First stage Red Rash
• Stage two the spirochetes spread all over to
  different body tissues.
• Stage three experience pain

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Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

• Lyme disease is diagnosed by
• Symptoms
• Physical findings
• History of the area of infected ticks

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Treatment of Lyme Disease

• Antibiotics are active in the treatment for Lyme
  disease.
• The name of the antibiotic drug that is used
  today to treat people with Lyme disease is
  doxycycline which is a semisynthetic derivative
  of tetracycline.

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Prevention of Lyme disease

• When you have lots of tall grass and bushes
  around your house it is more likely for ticks to
  be around so if you cut them then that will
  reduce the number of ticks which will reduce your
  risk of Lyme disease.
• You could also wear light colored clothes so that
  ticks can be spotted out easily

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Vaccines of Lyme disease

• LYMErixtm is a vaccine licensed to people with
  Lyme disease.
• Three doses of this vaccine is prescribed by
  intramuscular injection.
• Then a month later you take the second dose
• The third dose will be taken twelve months after
  the first.

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The History of Lyme Disease

• In the year of 1883 a German physician reported
  the first finding of Lyme borreliosis.
• A Swedish dermatologist, Arvid Afzelius,
  described a red rash that was found to be a tick
  bite.
• In 1913, an Austrian physician described the
  exact same lesion.
• In 1969, the first recorded case of ECM (erythema
  chronicum migrans) in the United States occurred
  in Wisconsin.
• And many physicians and dermatologists began to
  see and document their findings.

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Bibliography

• Division of Vector-Bourne Infectious Diseases
  (2006). Learn about Lyme Disease. Retrieved
  August 1, 2006, from http//www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvb
  id/lyme/ld_humandisease_diagnosis.htm
• Kiple, K. (2003). The Cambridge Historical
  Dictionary of Disease. Cambridge Cambridge
  University Press.
• Etkin, S., Lenker, D., Mills, E.(editors).
  (2005). Lyme Disease, Professional Guide to
  Diseases. Lippincott Williams Wilkins,
  Philadelphia.
• Bacteria Borrelia Burgdorferi (2006). Wadsworth
  Center, NYS Department of Health.
  http//www.wadsworth.org/databank/borreli.htm