Lyme Carditis Identified by a Novel Syndromic Surveillance Definition, New York State, 2017-2021

Key Points

• Detection of Lyme carditis is improved through a novel syndromic surveillance definition—highlighting changes over time.
• The defined tool can track Lyme disease patterns over a study period from 2017 to 2021.
• Syndromic surveillance offers a new method for identifying infections that may go unnoticed through standard reporting.
• Using this surveillance definition may lead to better public health responses to Lyme disease outbreaks.