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Lyme disease is a multisystem disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, a group of spirochetes transmitted by Ixodes ticks. It is characterized by skin, musculoskeletal, neurologic, ocular, and cardiac manifestations.

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  • 20 April 2021

    The book was inadvertently published with incorrect author names in Chapter 27 as Koushik Tripathy, Aniruddha Agarwal whereas it should be Koushik Tripathy, Aniruddha Agarwal, Miriam Barshak.

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  1. Department of Vitreoretina and Uvea, ASG Eye Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Koushik Tripathy

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

  3. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Miriam Baron Barshak

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  1. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

    C. Stephen Foster

  2. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

    Stephen D. Anesi

  3. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

    Peter Y. Chang

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Tripathy, K., Agarwal, A., Barshak, M.B. (2021). Lyme Disease. In: Foster, C.S., Anesi, S.D., Chang, P.Y. (eds) Uveitis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52974-1_27

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