Lyme disease: updated NICE guidance
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Lyme disease: updated NICE guidance

Erin Dean Health writer

Essential information

Erythema migrans is a skin rash associated with Lyme disease and is present in around two thirds of all cases. Often described as looking like a ‘bullseye’, it is a spreading red rash that usually appears one to four weeks following a bite by an infected tick.

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