Borreliosis, or Lyme disease
AUTHORS : Romanov K.S. | Vasilyeva G.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : “Eliseeva Medical Center”, Moscow, Russia
YEAR : 2016
Borreliosis, or Lyme disease, is the most common infectious, predominantly vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks in the Northern Hemisphere. At least
three species of bacteria of the genus Borrelia of the spirochete type are known. A disease that affects the nervous, immune and musculoskeletal systems and is not
always diagnosed in a laboratory. With the saliva of the tick, the causative agent of
systemic tick-borne borreliosis enters the human body. When the pathogen enters
various organs and tissues