Lyme Disease Spotlight Lyme borreliosis is caused by various species of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected Ixodes ticks. McCormick et al. Marques et al. Horowitz et al. Schwartz et al. Price et al. Kugeler et al. Nigrovic et al. Head et al. VanAcker et al.
Wormser et al. Kulkarni et al. Hickling et al. Frost et al. Hall et al. Nelson et al. Forrester et al. Hatchette et al. Clayton et al. Mead et al. Brummitt et al. Jory Brinkerhoff et al. Krause et al. Salkeld et al. Ticks are tiny parasites that feed on the blood of their hosts humans and animals in order to survive and advance to the next life cycle stage. Most ticks have four stages: egg, larva, nymph and adult. The larva and nymph need a blood meal to move to the next stage.
Ticks are extremely small, with the nymph the size of a pinhead. Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH, is a nationally recognized leader for his expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. For more than 34 years, he has been treating adolescents and adults suffering from Lyme disease. View All Interviews.
Kisco, NY Tel: Fax: However, the manufacturer withdrew the vaccine from the market in In , the vaccine efficacy study ended, and Lyme disease was removed from the list of laboratory reportable findings; however, it remained a physician reportable disease. Initially, with little known about Lyme disease, studies and surveys were conducted to determine the occurrence of the disease in Connecticut and factors that favor acquiring the disease.
The current focus of the Program is on prevention. The emergence of Lyme disease in Connecticut is attributed in large part to changes in land use. That is, land at one time used for farming has become reforested and increasingly developed for suburban residential use.
These changes favor expansion of habitat that supports ticks and wildlife and therefore transmission of tick-borne diseases from animals to people in residential areas and among those who work or recreate outdoors. With no vaccine currently available, prevention is based on avoidance of tick bites through a combination of personal protection and environmental measure.
To help meet the program's mission, The Epidemiology and Emerging Infections Program will continue to maintain surveillance for Lyme disease. Public health surveillance is one of the tools that infectious disease epidemiologists use to monitor the occurrence of diseases of public health importance and assess the effectiveness of control measures.
In the United States, the system for reportable diseases works best for diseases that are either rare in occurrence, involve hospitalized patients, or for which there are definitive diagnostic laboratory tests.
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