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Lyme Disease : Why It's Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What to Do about It /
An expert on tick-borne diseases, Alan G. Barbour explains the course of illness that results from infection, diagnosis and treatment options, and steps that can be taken to avoid a tick bite in the first place. The ticks that transmit Lyme disease may also transmit other disease-causing pathogens,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Early infection and the immune response
- Late infection and its complications
- The pathogen, its vector, and its reservoirs
- The ecology of lyme disease
- Approach to diagnosis
- Laboratory tests: the basics
- Putting laboratory testing in its place
- Antibiotics and lyme disease: the basics
- Putting the antibiotics to use
- After antibiotic therapy ends
- Deer ticks transmit other diseases
- Preventing lyme disease: community-wide measures
- Preventing lyme disease: personal and household protection.