When Are Antibiotics For Lyme Disease Medically Necessary?

As good weather brings people outdoors and into the woods, it also exposes them to tick bites that can result in Lyme disease, one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. A microscopic bacterial organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, carried by the Ixodes tick causes the Lyme infection.

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on June 10th, 2008