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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HAYES, Stanley F.

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1982

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Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?

BURGDORFER, Willy (1925 – 2014)
BURGDORFER, Willy (1925 – 2014) BARBOUR, Alan G. HAYES, Stanley F.

Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…