Abstract
Notes from the Field: Four Cases of Lyme Disease at an Outdoor Wilderness Camp - North Carolina, 2017 and 2019.
Highlights
On June 13, a North Carolina interagency assessment team traveled to the wilderness day camp to conduct entomologic surveillance for Ixodes ticks
Six of the 35 ticks yielding DNA suitable for analysis tested positive for B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, the causative agent of Lyme disease
Results indicated that nymphal ticks collected at the camp site had a B. burgdorferi infection prevalence of 17% (95% confidence interval = 8.1–32.7)
Summary
On June 13, a North Carolina interagency assessment team traveled to the wilderness day camp to conduct entomologic surveillance for Ixodes ticks. Demographic information and clinical and laboratory evidence of Lyme disease in four attendees at a wilderness day camp — North Carolina, 2017 and 2019 Recurrent attacks of Positive Borrelia burgdorferi Attended wilderness Doxycycline Confirmed joint swelling Physician diagnosis of Lyme western blot disease
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