Lyme disease. Recognizing its many manifestations.
Lyme borreliosis is a relatively new disease, so much remains to be learned about it. In this article, typical manifestations at each stage are reviewed. However, as the authors emphasize, diagnosis is still a challenge because a given patient may have from a few to all of the features discussed, stages often overlap, and characteristics come and go and may mimic other illnesses.
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Infectious Disease Section, Park Nicollet Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55416.
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D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015787:Erythema Chronicum Migrans / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*