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Lyme disease

Under a high magnification, this digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph depicts three gram-negative, anaerobic, Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which had been derived from a pure culture

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Erythema migrans

From the personal collection of Dr Cristian Speil; used with permission

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Erythema migrans

From the personal collection of Dr Cristian Speil; used with permission

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This Lyme disease patient presented with the signs and symptoms indicative of arthritic changes to his right knee due to a Borrelia burgdorferi bacterial infection

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Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

​Nguyen AL et al. Case Reports 2016; 2016: bcr2016216033; used with permission

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Lateral aspect of the left thigh of a patient who’d presented with what was diagnosed as Lyme disease showing the characteristic red, expanding rash (erythema migrans)

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Borrelial lymphocytoma

Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons; used with permission

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Posterior right shoulder region of a patient with Lyme disease showing erythema migrans

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Deer tick (or blacklegged tick), Ixodes scapularis, as it was questing on a blade of grass

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