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Click Submit to complete this assessment Question 10 Could lyme disease be considered either an epidemic, pandemic, or endemic infection? Pandemic infection of Yersinia pestis virus Epideminfection of an encoccus bacteria Findemic infection of drug resistant bacterial in Endemic bacterial infection of relia burgdorfer Click Submit to complete this assessment

Answer 1

Lyme disease is an " Endemic bacterial infection of Borrelia burgdorferi".

Rationale: Endemic is an infection or organism that is restricted to particular region.As the disease has been found in many regions of the world there are many questions stating Lyme disease as Pandemic also.But this is actually restricted to certain regions such as Atlanta, Virginia , Maine etc.. So this is considered as Endemic.Also from the above given options all the other organisms mentioned are not responsible for Lyme disease except Borrelia.