It is a multisystem infection transmitted to humans through the bite of the infected black legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) or deer ticks. Lyme disease is prevalent in southern parts of the United States and Europe, with a higher incidence in children aged 5-10 years than adults. The growing prevalence of the disease has resulted in raising public health concerns to prevent infection sequelae.
Clinical Diagnosis of Lyme Disease:
Timely accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of infection are the critical factors to minimize any disease progression. Apart from physical examination and history of tick bite exposure in current clinical practice, dual step serological testing is widely employed to optimize the specificity and sensitivity of laboratory testing. The two-step approach incorporates screening by enzymatic immunoassay (EIA), followed by a confirmatory western blot test to detect serum antibodies such as anti-borrelia IgG/ IgM, anti-borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato IgG/ IgM produced in response to borrelia infection. The accuracy of diagnostic tests depends upon the extent of illness progression and the production of antibodies in the blood.
However, Lyme disease diagnosis always remains challenging, and the quest for more reliable, fast, and accurate diagnostic tests widens up enormous scope for diagnostic scientists worldwide.
Lyme disease symptoms in humans:
Illness onset is with tick exposure and with the appearance of cutaneous manifestations like red macular or papular skin lesion on the site of tick bite and advances to large erythematous annular lesions in later stages. Lyme disease symptoms can be early localized disease, early disseminated disease, and late disease, depending upon the phases of infection.
The early localized disease manifested as erythema migrans appearing at the tick bite site in three to thirty days post tick exposure and is associated with flu-like symptoms like fever, fatigue, headache, myalgia, or arthralgia. In the early disseminated stage, infected patients exhibit multiple erythema migrans, meningitis, cranial nerve palsies, carditis, and meningitis requiring ambulatory or hospitalized care. The late disease is primary monoarticular or sometimes oligoarticular arthritis affecting larger joints like knee joints. In most patients, the infections resolve after initiating appropriate antimicrobial therapy 2-4 weeks or based on the clinical response of the patients.
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