ACR Meeting Abstracts
ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 0062 • ACR Convergence 2020
Akash Gupta1, Gunjan Arora1, Connor Rosen2, Yongguo Cao1, Jiri Cerny3, Carmen Booth4, Noah Palm2, Aaron Ring2 and Erol Fikrig1, 1Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 3Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 4Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Background/Purpose: Lyme Disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb). The infection often begins in the skin, following a tick bite, and spreads to…