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  • noun infection with Borrelia bacteria; Lyme disease

Etymologies

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Borrelia +‎ -osis

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Examples

  • The most common symptom of Lyme disease, which is also known as borreliosis, is a red rash, with fever, headache and fatigue also experienced by some victims.

    Daily Express 2009

  • Skipko, 49, thinks she was bitten about 10 years ago, when she began having the classic symptoms of Lyme borreliosis, a tickborne nervous-system disease: headaches and aching joints.

    Diseases Of The Mind 2007

  • Relapsing fever or borreliosis is a febrile illness caused by spirochaetes and transmitted to humans by lice or ticks.

    Chapter 12 1993

  • - Because of the multiplication of organisms resistant to cyclines, they should be kept for specific infections: brucellosis, cholera, borreliosis, typhus, gonorrhoea resistant to penicillin and certain chronic pneumopathies.

    Chapter 5 1993

  • Health notes: Give bites a good ticking off lead to a potentially chronic, life-limiting condition called Lyme disease, or borreliosis.

    WN.com - Articles related to Rabies toll up as dogs roam holiday haven 2010

  • Health notes: Give bites a good ticking off lead to a potentially chronic, life-limiting condition called Lyme disease, or borreliosis.

    WN.com - Articles related to Rabies toll up as dogs roam holiday haven 2010

  • [1] Weber K, Wilske B. "Mini erythema migrans -- a sign of early Lyme borreliosis".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Lahdenne P, Popova TG, Porcella SF, Akins DR, et al. (1998) Decorin-binding protein of Borrelia burgdorferi is encoded within a two-gene operon and is protective in the murine model of Lyme borreliosis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is a particularly nasty, and hard to treat bacteria that is carried by a variety of ticks that can now be found in just about every state in the nation, and increasingly, around the world.

    Avian Flu Diary 2008

  • Chronic central nervous system involvement in Lyme borreliosis

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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