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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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;...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / John J. Halperin
• Ticks : the vectors of Lyme disease / Robert P. Smith
• Borrelia : biology of the organism / Alvaro Toledo, Jorge L. Benach
• Borrelia : interactions with the host immune system / Raymond J. Dattwyler and Kirk Sperber
• Laboratory diagnostic testing for borrelia burgdorferi infection / Barbara J.B. Johnson
• Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection after antibiotic treatment : what can we learn from animal models? / Joppe W.R. Hovius and Gary P. Wormser
• Global epidemiology of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections / Paul S. Mead
• Antibiotic therapy for infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato / Gary P. Wormser
• Lyme borreliosis in the UK and Ireland / Susan O'Connell
• Lyme borreliosis : the European perspective / Gerold Stanek and Franc Strle
• Erythema migrans / Robert B. Nadelman
• Cardiac involvement / Joseph M. Harburger, Jonathan L. Halperin
• Rheumatologic involvement / 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 J. Baker and Gary P. Wormser.