Cases of Lyme Disease in the United States: Locations Correlated with Distribution of Ixodes dammini

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Abstract
Lyme disease, defined by erythema chronicum migrans and sometimes followed by neurologic, cardiac or joint involvement, affects 512 patients in the USA. The disease apparently occurs in 3 distinct foci, along the northeastern coast, in Wisconsin, and in California and Oregon; this distribution correlates closely with that of I. dammini in the 1st 2 areas and with I. pacificus in the last. The implicated tick, saved by 6 patients in the Northeast, was identified as nymphal I. dammini. Residence in or travel to endemic areas and history of tick bite may be important clues to diagnosis.

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