How often does it occur in Lyme disease patients?
Abstracts on prevalence of Lyme disease rash in Lyme disease patients Note: The abstracts in this section were gleaned from articles found by the following MEDLINE “search” link: MEDLINE – occur*, etc. AND rash, etc. AND Lyme disease – 685 citations found on 29 Nov 00 TITLE: Lyme disease [In Process Citation] AUTHORS: Shapiro ED; Gerber MA AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Children’s Clinical Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8064, USA. Eugene.Shapiro@Yale.edu. LANGUAGES: Eng ABSTRACT: Lyme disease, which is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted in the United States primarily by Ixodes scapularis (the deer tick), is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Its most frequent manifestation, a characteristic, expanding annular rash (erythema migrans), sometimes accompanied by myalgia, arthralgia, and malaise, occurs in nearly 90% of persons with symptomatic infection.
