Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, November 2017 / Vol. 66 / No. SS-22

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• Alternative Title:
  Surveillance for Lyme Disease -- United States, 2008–2015
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Schwartz, Amy M. ; Hinckley, Alison F. ; Mead, Paul S. ; Hook, Sarah A. ; Kugeler, Kiersten J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
• Description:
  Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector borne disease in the United States but is geographically focal. The majority of Lyme disease cases occur in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper Midwest regions. Lyme disease can cause varied clinical manifestations, including erythema migrants, arthritis, facial palsy, and carditis. Lyme disease occurs most commonly among children and older adults, with a slight predominance among males.
  
  Lyme disease has been a nationally notifiable condition in the United States since 1991. Possible Lyme disease cases are reported to local and state health departments by clinicians and laboratories. Health department staff conduct case investigations to classify cases according to the national surveillance case definition. Those that qualify as confirmed or probable cases of Lyme disease are reported to CDC through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. States with an average annual incidence during this reporting period of ≥10 confirmed Lyme disease cases per 100,000 population were classified as high incidence. States that share a border with those states or that are located between areas of high incidence were classified as neighboring states. All other states were classified as low incidence.
  
  Suggested citation for this article: Schwartz AM, Hinckley AF, Mead PS, Hook SA, Kugeler KJ. Surveillance for Lyme Disease — United States, 2008–2015. MMWR Surveill Summ 2017;66(No. SS-22):1–12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6622a1.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Lyme Disease / Epidemiology Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2017; v. 66, no. 22
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6622a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  29120995
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5829628
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Funding:
  NIOSH CDC grant #U07/CCU706145 (round 1) ; NIOSH CDC grant #U50OH07548 (rounds 2 and 3)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  22
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49674/cdc_49674_DS1.pdf
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