Lyme disease: an evidence-based approach

✍ Scribed by Halperin, John J

Publisher: CABI
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 301
Edition: 2nd edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This new, full colour edition provides up-to-date research covering rapid advances in our understanding of the pathogen and disease. It explores the causative organism, its ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions, diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations, therapeutic options, host immunity and pathogenesis, and prognosis.

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Ticks : the vectors of lyme disease / Robert P. Smith --
Biology of the lyme disease agents a selective survey of clinical and epidemiologic relevance / Alan G. Barbour --
Borreliella : interactions with the host immune system / Kirk Sperber and Raymond J. Dattwyler --
Diagnostic testing for lyme disease / Paul G. Auwaerter --
Global epidemiology of Borreliella burgdorferi infections / Paul S. Mead --
Antibiotic therapy for infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato / Gary P. Wormser --
Lyme borreliosis : the European perspective / Franc Strle, Gerold Stanek, and Klemen Strle --
Neuroborreliosis : a European persective / Rick Dersch --
Medically unexplained symptoms & lyme neuroborreliosis : not the same / Erlend Roaldsnes, Randi Eikeland and Dag Berild --
Erythema migrans / Robert B. Nadelman and Linden Hu --
Cardiac involvement / Jonathan R. Salik and David M. Dudzinski --
The musculoskeletal manifestations of lyme disease / Leonard H Sigal --
Nervous system involvement / John J. Halperin --
Lyme disease in children / Eugene D. Shapiro --
The psychology of "post-lyme disease syndrome" and "not lyme" / Afton L. Hassett and Leonard H. Sigal --
Chronic lyme disease / Adriana Marques --
Lyme disease : the great controversy / John J. Halperin, Phillip Baker and Gary P. Wormser.

✦ Subjects

Aetiology.;Antibacterial agents.;Antibiotics.;Bacterial diseases.;Chronic course.;Chronic infections.;Clinical aspects.;Complications.;Diagnosis.;Diagnostic techniques.;Disease course.;Disease vectors.;Drug therapy.;Epidemiology.;Human diseases.;Immune response.;Immunity.;Lyme disease.;Microbial ecology.;Molecular biology.;Molecular genetics.;Neuroborreliosis.;Pathogenesis.;Prognosis.;Symptoms.;Tickborne diseases.;Vectors.;Lyme Disease.

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