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puukborrelioos

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 19.06.2025

Meanings

puukide levitatav närvisüsteemi, liigeseid ja südant kahjustav nakkushaigus

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ID 736532 Last modified 29.08.2016
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Domain Medicine - Pathology - Surgery
puukborrelioos
Lyme disease
borreliosis
  • puukide vahendusel leviv haigus, mida põhjustab spiroheetide perekonda kuuluv bakter ning mille esmaseks tunnuseks on ringikujuline nahalööve puugihammustuse piirkonnas
  • an epidemic inflammatory disease that often begins with a characteristic skin lesion called erythema chronicum migrans accompanied by headache, stiff neck, fever, and malaise and that weeks or months later manifests itself as migratory polyarthritis, intermittent oligoarthritis, chronic arthritis of the knees, chronic meningoencephalitis, cranial or peripheral neuropathy, migratory musculoskeletal pain, or cardiac abnormalities
  • a disease caused by bacteria that are spread by the bite of an insect called a tick
Good to know
  • First identified in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1975, the disease has subsequently been found to occur in at least fourteen states of the United States and in Europe and Australia.
  • Initially the symptoms of Lyme's disease are like those of flu.
puukborrelioos
Usage examples
  • Tervishoiutöötajad ja tervisekaitseametnikud teavitavad elanikke puukborrelioosi looduskollete asukohtadest.
Lyme’i tõbi
Usage examples
  • Tõrjeüritused nakkuspuhangu korral. Lyme’i tõve puhanguid ei esine, kuid looduskolletes esineb kõrgenenud haigestumine.
Lyme disease
Usage examples
  • Borreliosis (Lyme disease) should be included as cause of deferral. In terms of epidemiology the Lyme disease is an important entity because the number of cases is steadily growing. Although there is no direct evidence of Borrelia transmission with blood in humans (the available studies on borreliosis transmission are however old and date back to the 1990 ies) transmission with blood was proved on animal models and Borrelia survives in the temperature of blood storage.
borreliosis
Lyme borreliosis
Usage examples
  • Changes in tick distribution have also been observed. The limit of tick distribution in the EU is shifting northwards and also to higher altitudes; the shift towards milder winters may lead to an expansion of the tick population and, consequently, to an increase of human exposure to Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis.

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ID 608276 Last modified 04.07.2023
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Domain environmental medicine
borrelioos
puukborrelioos
borreliosis
  • puukide levitatav, spiroheedi Borrelia burgdorferi tekitatud haigus, mille sümptomid on nahal puugi hammustuskohas vähehaaval laienev punetus, peavalu, oksendamine ning näo- ja silmalihaste halvatused, kroonilises staadiumis ka nahanähud, liigesepõletikud, südamekomplikatsioonid ja närvisüsteemi haigusnähud
borrelioos
puukborrelioos
borreliosis

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Inflection Type 22e

puukborrelioos puukborrelioosid
puukborrelioosi puukborreliooside
puukborrelioosi puukborrelioose ~ puukborrelioosisid

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