Expected Total Enrollment: 440 Study start: March 22, 1996
Lyme disease has emerged as the leading vector-borne disease in the United States . Despite how much has been learned about Lyme borreliosis in the past decade, there are still many remaining areas of uncertainty
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Lyme borreliosis and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) have emerged as two of the most commonly recognized tick-borne illnesses in the northeastern and upper Midwestern regions of the United States. Lyme borreliosis is the most highly reported vector-borne infectious disease in the United States,with an estimated nationwide incidence of 5 per 100,000 population {5}.
Since the initiation of national surveillance in 1992, >20,000 cases of Lyme disease have been diagnosed in the state of Pennsylvania, with the vast majority of cases reported from the five-county region {Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Bucks} surrounding the Philadelphia metropolitan area. In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention {CDC} reported 2,623 Lyme disease cases in Pennsylvania, second only to New York's 4,262 cases {5}.
