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==Description==

==Description==

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[[File:Borreliose.png|thumb|Map of the areas where ''Borrelia burgdorferi'' is endemic<br><small>Copyright Percherie 2006 Wikimedia Commons]]</small>

Lyme disease descibes the clinical syndrome caused by infection with ''[[Borrelia burgdorferi]]'' in humans, dogs, horses, cattle and sheep.  The disease is named after the town of Lyme[http://townlyme.org/] in Connecticut, USA where clinical cases were first described in humans in 1975.

Lyme disease descibes the clinical syndrome caused by infection with ''[[Borrelia burgdorferi]]'' in humans, dogs, horses, cattle and sheep.  The disease is named after the town of Lyme[http://townlyme.org/] in Connecticut, USA where clinical cases were first described in humans in 1975.