Lyme Disease

 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

Lyme disease with drying central vesicles.

 

 

 

 

Lyme disease is an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by the tick, Ixodes dammini.  A rash appears two to thirty days following infection.  The lesion expands forming an annular erythematous lesion, known as erythema migrans.  The center is usually clear, but may become darker, vesicular, hemorrhagic, or necrotic.

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