Lyme disease : an evidence-based approach /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 20.
• Subjects: Lyme disease.; Lyme Disease.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Diagnosis of Human Disease, (New March 2000); Zoology of Wild Animals (Vertebrates and Invertebrates) (General), (New March 2000); Microbiology (General); Borrelia burgdorferi.; Man.; Metastigmata.; Antibiotics.; Biology.; Clinical aspects.; Disease vectors.; Drug therapy.; Epidemiology.; Human diseases.; Laboratory diagnosis.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 282 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, charts.; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book provides information on the advances in the application of molecular and cellular microbiology to Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. This book has 17 chapters and is divided into two parts. Part I covered the following topics: biology of ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, and of Borrelia; laboratory diagnosis of B. burgdorferi infection, antibiotic treatment and epidemiology. Part II focuses on the clinical aspects of Lyme disease.