News tagged with lyme borreliosis

Tiny details in three dimensions

They are borne by ticks and can cause acute and chronic symptoms in joints, muscles and the nervous system - the bacteria that cause Lyme borreliosis, which 80,000 people in Germany contract every year. Heidelberg ...

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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First aid after tick bites

(Medical Xpress) -- They come out in the spring, and each year they spread further – the ticks. Thirty percent of them transmit borrelia pathogens, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis that can damage joints and ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When ticks transmit dangerous pathogens

Lyme disease is a dangerous disease which is transmitted by ticks. Blood-sucking ticks ingest the agents that cause the disease – bacteria of the species Borrelia burgdorferi and its relatives – during a blood meal, ...

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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