Lyme

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Lyme can refer to:

In biology:

• Lyme disease, an infectious disease carried by ticks caused by bacteria of genus Borrelia

In geography:

• United States of America
  • Lyme, Connecticut, a town in southeastern Connecticut, the namesake of Lyme disease
  • Lyme, New Hampshire, a town in western New Hampshire
  • Lyme, New York, a town in New York along the Lake Ontario Shoreline

• United Kingdom
  • Lyme, Macclesfield, a civil parish near Disley in Cheshire
  • Lyme Bay, an embayment of the English Channel
  • Lyme Park, an estate in County Cheshire
  • Lyme Regis, a town in West Dorset
  • Forest of Lyme, a historic area of forest in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
• South Africa
  • Lyme Park, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg

[edit] See also

• Lime