Ticks and Lyme Disease in the United States

Editorials1 July 1983Ticks and Lyme Disease in the United StatesWILLY BURGDORFER, PH.D., JAMES E. KEIRANS, PH.D.WILLY BURGDORFER, PH.D.Search for more papers by this author, JAMES E. KEIRANS, PH.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-99-1-121 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1909, the Swedish physician Arvid Afzelius described for the first time a migrating annular lesion, erythema chronicum migrans, on a patient bitten by the ixodid tick, Ixodes ricinus. Subsequently, numerous cases of erythema chronicum migrans have been reported in northern and middle Europe and have been associated with the bites of this tick or possibly other hematophagous arthropods. The cause of this and related disorders (meningoradiculitis or Bannwarth's syndrome) remained unknown although tick-transmitted toxins, viruses, rickettsiae, and even spirochetes had been considered.In the United States, the first case of erythema chronicum migrans was reported in 1970 from Wisconsin...References1. SCRIMENTI R. Erythema chronicum migrans. Arch Dermatol. 1970;102:104-5. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. STEERE A, MALAWISTA S, HARDIN J, RUDDY S, ASKENASE P, and ANDIMAN W. Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: the enlarging clinical spectrum. Ann Intern Med. 1977;86:685-98. LinkGoogle Scholar3. BURGDORFER W, BARBOUR A, HAYES S, BENACH J, GRUNWALDT E, and DAVIS J. Lyme disease—a tickborne spirochetosis. Science. 1982;216:1317-9. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. STEERE A, GRODZICKI R, and KORNBLATT A. The spirochetal etiology of Lyme disease. N Engl J Med. 1983;308:733-40. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. BENACH J, BOSLER E, and HANRAHAN J. 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