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A time for Lyme

Diagnosis of Lyme disease often can be elusive

State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (3-22-08): 763

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold: 7,630

* Iowa Known Fatalities: 7

* In the United States, requirements for reporting diseases are mandated by state laws or regulations, and the list of reportable diseases in each state differs.

* At least a dozen species of ticks occur in Iowa.

 

Other Vector and Tickborne diseases found in Iowa: 

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)
     
  • Ehrlichia chaffeensis- Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis (HME)
     
  • Morgellons
     
  • Query Fever
     
  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
     
  • Tularemia
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen: 

  • Amblyomma americanum- Lone Star tick
           Ehrlichia chaffeensis- Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis (HME)
       Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tularemia
     
  • Argasidae Carios kelleyi (formerly Ornithodoros kelleyi)- Bat tick
           Borrelia (unidentified species)
     
  • Ixodes scapularis (formerly Ixodes dammini)- Black-legged tick or Deer tick
       Borrelia     burgdorferi- Lyme disease
     
  • Ixodes Dermacentor variabilis- American Dog tick, Eastern Wood tick or Wood tick
           Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tularemia


Sources:

http://lyme.org/resources/1980-cumulative.htm

 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047449.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5353a1.htm

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/htm/bc/tzns01.htm

http://www.lymeinfo.net/coinfections.html
 

Novel relapsing fever spirochete in bat tick.
Gill JS, Ullmann AJ, Loftis AD, Schwan TG, Raffel SJ, Schrumpf ME, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis 2008 Mar.

 

 

                                
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