Lyme disease : an evidence-based approach /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Other Authors: Halperin, John J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, [2011]
Series:Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 20.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ticks : the vectors of Lyme disease
  • Borrelia : biology of the organism
  • Borrelia : interactions with the host immune system
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection after antibiotic treatment : what can we learn from animal models?
  • Global epidemiology of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections
  • Antibiotic therapy for infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Borreliosis : the UK perspective
  • Borreliosis : the European perspective
  • Erythema migrans
  • Cardiac involvement
  • Rheumatologic involvement
  • Nervous system involvement
  • Lyme disease in children
  • The psychology of "post Lyme disease syndrome" and "not Lyme"
  • The entity referred to as "chronic Lyme disease"
  • Lyme disease : the great controversy