Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria,  Borrelia burgdorferi, which you can get if an infected deer tick
(also called black-legged tick) bites you. Ordinary "wood ticks" and "dog ticks" don’t carry the
infection.
The first recognition of Lyme disease, also called borreliosis, began in 1975 when many children
received a diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in Lyme, Connecticut, and two neighboring
towns. Researchers found that bites from infected deer ticks were responsible for the outbreak of
arthritis.
 

TESTS

• LYME DISEASE ANTIBODY, SERUM
• LYME AB, IgM
• Lyme disease ab reflex IgM to WB G/M
• Lyme blot, IgG W/Bands
• Lyme blot, W/bands