Lime Disease
Title: Lime Disease
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 918 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lime Disease
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 918 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lime Disease
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme disease was an illness that mainly
affects the skin, nervous system, heart, and joints. The borrelia species is part of the
eubacterial phylum of spirochetes. Containted within a protoplasmic
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Children between the ages of 5 and 15 who have been treated with lyme disease
will be studied. These children will be randomly chosen for endemic areas such as
Delaware. Serologic testing (ie. enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa; ELISA) will be
used to determine the presence of B. burgdorferi antibodies.
The following hypotheses will be tested:
Ho: No cognitive differences between lyme disease children and control group
HA: Cognitive differences between lyme disease children and control group are
present.