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Lyme disease in Canada: Focus on children

Canadian Paediatric SocietyPediatrics2020Official publication

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2020) on “Lyme disease in Canada: Focus on children”. Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne infection in Canada and much of the United States, is caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. Peak incidence for Lyme disease is among children five to nine years of age and older adults (55 to 59 years of age). The bacteria are transmitted through the bite of infected black-legged ticks of the Ixodes species. The primary hosts of black-legged ticks are mice and other rod.

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