TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Lyme Disease A1 - Gomella, Tricia Lacy A1 - Eyal, Fabien G. A1 - Bany-Mohammed, Fayez PY - 2020 T2 - Gomella's Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs, 8e AB - Lyme disease is a zoonotic infection and was first reported in 1977, following an unusual cluster of adults and children with oligoarticular arthritis in a certain neighborhood of Lyme, Connecticut. Subsequently, a multisystem disease was described and attributed to the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme disease manifests as a spectrum of skin, musculoskeletal, cardiac, and neurologic findings. It is a vector-borne disease that follows the bite of an Ixodes tick, usually the black-legged Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as the deer tick. Lyme disease has a worldwide distribution and is known to be endemic in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Prenatal exposure to B burgdorferi and the development of gestational borreliosis can result in maternal Lyme disease with placentitis and possible transplacental infection of the fetus and newborn. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1168358802 ER -