erythema migrans

The rash described by Afzelius was later named erythema migrans.

An expanding, circular red rash (erythema migrans) is the most common sign of early Lyme disease.

Two other names for geographic tongue are benign migratory glossitis and erythema migrans.

This erythema is also sometimes called erythema migrans or EM.

A bulls-eye rash, also known as Erythema migrans.

Erythema migrans is often accompanied by symptoms such as fever, headache, stiff neck, body aches, and fatigue.

The 20% without the erythema migrans and the nontarget lesions can often cause mis-identification of Lyme disease.

He named the lesion erythema migrans.

The spreading rash is why doctors originally called Lyme disease erythema migrans for the wandering redness.

A quarter of the people Steere interviewed remembered getting a strange, spreading skin rash (erythema migrans) before experiencing any other symptoms.

Migratory stomatitis (also called Oral erythema migrans) is a benign condition on the oral soft tissue.

Early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash called erythema migrans (EM).

Lyme disease may produce the typical palsy, and may be easily diagnosed by looking for Lyme-specific antibodies in the blood or erythema migrans.

A dozen years after he read the report, he became the first doctor to document in a medical journal an American case of the rash, called erythema migrans.

Symptoms: Fever, arthritis, neuroborreliosis, erythema migrans, cranial nerve palsy, carditis, fatigue, and influenza-like illness.

This rash is the early stage of Borreliosis, now known as Erythema migrans, an early indication of Lyme disease.

Neuroborreliosis is often preceded by the typical symptoms of Lyme disease, which include erythema migrans and flu-like symptoms such as fever and muscle aches.

Lyme disease, which is transmitted by ticks and is characterized by debilatating polyarthritis, neurologic symptoms, and erythema migrans.

"Erythema migrans is the only manifestation of Lyme disease in the United States that is sufficiently distinctive to allow clinical diagnosis in the absence of laboratory confirmation."

The recognition that the patients in the United States had erythema migrans led to the recognition that "Lyme arthritis" was one manifestation of the same tick-borne disease known in Europe.

Research in Europe had found that erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, another rash caused by tics in Europe, responded to penicillin, suggesting that the cause was bacterial, not viral.

The erythema migrans rash associated with early infection is found in approximately 80% of patients and can have a range of appearances including the classic target bull's-eye lesion and nontarget appearing lesions.

Lyme disease is diagnosed clinically based on symptoms, objective physical findings (such as erythema migrans, facial palsy or arthritis) or a history of possible exposure to infected ticks, as well as serological blood tests.

Erythema migrans is the telltale rash which occurs in about 70% to 80% of cases and starts as a small red spot that expands over a period of days or weeks, forming a circular, triangular, or oval-shaped rash.

In the 1920s, French physicians Garin and Bujadoux described a patient with meningoencephalitis, painful sensory radiculitis, and erythema migrans following a tick bite, and they postulated the symptoms were due to a spirochetal infection.