Lyme disease: a growing threat to urban populations.

Lyme Disease—a Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?

1982 • 2,831 citations

The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme Disease

1983 • 1,590 citations

An epidemic of oligoarticular arthritis in children and adults in three connecticut communities

1977 • 1,217 citations

Lyme Disease

1989 • 1,169 citations

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

1984 • 1,031 citations

Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Borrelia garinii sp. nov., and Group VS461 Associated with Lyme Borreliosis

1992 • 882 citations

Spirochetes Isolated from the Blood of Two Patients with Lyme Disease

1983 • 810 citations

The Clinical Evolution of Lyme Arthritis

1987 • 773 citations

Western Blotting in the Serodiagnosis of Lyme Disease

1993 • 693 citations

Erythema Chronicum Migrans and Lyme Arthritis

1977 • 689 citations

The Early Clinical Manifestations of Lyme Disease

1983 • 668 citations

The Biological and Social Phenomenon of Lyme Disease

1993 • 624 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Synovial Fluid from Patients with Lyme Arthritis

1994 • 591 citations

Lyme Carditis: Cardiac Abnormalities of Lyme Disease

1980 • 581 citations

The triad of neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease

1985 • 579 citations

Chronic Neurologic Manifestations of Lyme Disease

1990 • 535 citations

Protection of Mice Against the Lyme Disease Agent by Immunizing with Recombinant OspA

1990 • 480 citations

Monoclonal Antibodies for Identification of Borrelia afzelii sp. nov. Associated with Late Cutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis

1993 • 426 citations

The Overdiagnosis of Lyme Disease

1993 • 336 citations

ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS AND LYME ARTHRITIS: EPIDEMIOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR A TICK VECTOR1

1978 • 317 citations

Cases of Lyme Disease in the United States: Locations Correlated with Distribution of Ixodes dammini

1979 • 301 citations

Mice as Reservoirs of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

1985 • 298 citations

Neurologic Abnormalities of Lyme Disease: Successful Treatment with High-Dose Intravenous Penicillin

1983 • 279 citations

The Western Black-Legged Tick, Ixodes Pacificus: A Vector of Borrelia Burgdorferi

1985 • 262 citations

Lyme neuroborreliosis

1989 • 257 citations

Elimination of Borrelia burgdorferi from vector ticks feeding on OspA-immunized mice.

1992 • 243 citations

Lyme Disease in California: a Novel Enzootic Transmission Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi

1992 • 236 citations

Lyme Disease: Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment

1991 • 231 citations

Longitudinal Assessment of the Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Lyme Disease in a Defined Population

1986 • 227 citations

Early and Late Cutaneous Manifestations in Ixodes‐borne Borreliosis (Erythema Migrans Borreliosis, Lyme Borreliosis)^a

1988 • 222 citations

A Controlled Trial of Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Lyme Disease after Deer-Tick Bites

1992 • 208 citations

Reduced Abundance of Immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) Following Elimination of Deer

1988 • 207 citations

Cultivation of Borrelia burgdorferi from erythema migrans lesions and perilesional skin

1992 • 205 citations

Lyme Disease Associated with Fibromyalgia

1992 • 203 citations

Evaluation of the Intrathecal Antibody Response to Borrelia burgdorferi as a Diagnostic Test for Lyme Neuroborreliosis

1990 • 201 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in Museum Specimens of Ixodes dammini Ticks

1990 • 195 citations

Amoxycillin plus probenecid versus doxycycline for treatment of erythema migrans borreliosis

1990 • 171 citations

Lyme disease

1987 • 170 citations

Treatment of early lyme disease

1992 • 170 citations

Chronic Neurologic Manifestations of Erythema Migrans Borreliosis

1988 • 162 citations

PCR detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of Lyme neuroborreliosis patients

1992 • 161 citations

Rapid Emergence of a Focal Epidemic of Lyme Disease in Coastal Massachusetts

1989 • 146 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in urine samples and cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with early and late Lyme neuroborreliosis by polymerase chain reaction

1992 • 144 citations

Randomized Comparison of Ceftriaxone and Cefotaxime in Lyme Neuroborreliosis

1991 • 142 citations

Clinical and electrophysiologic findings in chronic neuropathy of Lyme disease

1992 • 135 citations

Molecular detection of persistent Borrelia burgdorferi in the urine of patients with active Lyme disease

1991 • 134 citations

Antibody Testing in Lyme Disease A Comparison of Results in Four Laboratories

1989 • 128 citations

Performance of 45 Laboratories Participating in a Proficiency Testing Program for Lyme Disease Serology

1992 • 122 citations

Incidence and Cumulative Frequency of Endemic Lyme Disease in a Community

1984 • 122 citations

The Geographic Spread and Temporal Increase of the Lyme Disease Epidemic

1991 • 114 citations

Spirochäten-Ätiologie der Erythema-chronicum-migrans-Krankheit

2008 • 111 citations

Memory impairment and depression in patients with Lyme encephalopathy

1992 • 102 citations

Pressurized Sprays of Permethrin or Deet on Military Clothing for Personal Protection Against Ixodes Dammini (Acari: Ixodidae)12

1986 • 100 citations

Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans—A Spirochetosis Clinical and Histopathological Picture Based on 32 Patients; Course and Relationship to Erythema Chronicum Migrans Afzelius

1986 • 100 citations

Prevalence of the Lyme disease spirochete in populations of white-tailed deer and white-footed mice.

1984 • 96 citations

Lyme Disease and Babesiosis: Acaricide Focused on Potentially Infected Ticks

1987 • 94 citations

European Lyme Borreliosis

1988 • 91 citations

The polymerase chain reaction for the detection of borrelia burgdorferi in human body fluids

1993 • 89 citations

Lyme arthritis in the Hunter Valley

1982 • 85 citations

The emergence of Lyme disease in a changing environment in North America and Central Europe

1986 • 73 citations

An Unexpected Result from Burning Vegetation to Reduce Lyme Disease Transmission Risks

1993 • 60 citations

Species-specific identification of and distinction between Borrelia burgdorferi genomic groups by using 16S rRNA-directed oligonucleotide probes

1992 • 60 citations

Lyme Borreliosis in the Soviet Union: A Cooperative US-USSR Report

1988 • 53 citations

Primary and Secondary Erythema Migrans in Central Wisconsin

1993 • 51 citations

Effectiveness of Host-Targeted Permethrin in the Control of Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae)

1991 • 42 citations

Epidemiological and Aetiological Evidence for Transmission of Lyme Disease by Adult Ixodes persulcatus in an Endemic Area in China

1990 • 30 citations

Lyme disease in New Jersey outdoor workers: a statewide survey of seroprevalence and tick exposure.

1990 • 29 citations

Effectiveness of an Aerial Application of Carbaryl in Controlling Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) Adults in a High-Use Recreational Area in New Jersey

1992 • 29 citations

In vivo isolation and maintenance of some wild strains of European hard tick spirochetes in mammalian and arthropod hosts

1986 • 19 citations