Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. A spirochete is a type of bacterium. Lyme disease is transmitted to dogs through the bite of a tick. Once in the blood stream, the Lyme disease organism is carried to many parts of the body and is likely to localize in joints.
encephalopathy is a general term describing a disease that affects the function or structure of your brain there are many types of encephalopathy and brain disease some types are permanent and some are temporary
The diagnosis and documentation of encephalopathy can be confusing and controversial. Clinicians struggle with, for example, the distinction between delirium and encephalopathy, and with recognizing encephalopathy when a patient with dementia seems to have an acute alteration in baseline mental status.A specific, authoritative definition of encephalopathy is hard to come by.his is why the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), classifies acute toxic and metabolic encephalopathic states as delirium and does not use encephalopathy in its definitions.