Tickborne Infectious Diseases: Diagnosis and ManagementThis book is the first to deal exclusively with tickborne infectious diseases in a single source, including comprehensive coverage of babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Colorado tick fever, with a special emphasis on Lyme disease. Explains how to obtain reliable and objective laboratory confirmation of |
Contents
A Human Health Perspective | 1 |
Chapter 2 Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnosis of Tickborne Diseases | 15 |
Chapter 3 Lyme Neuroborreliosis | 55 |
Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Manifestations of Lyme Disease | 73 |
Chapter 5 Lyme Arthritis | 81 |
Chapter 6 Lyme Vaccine | 93 |
Chapter 7 Tick Paralysis | 103 |
Chapter 8 Babesiosis | 111 |
Chapter 11 Tickborne Relapsing Fever | 169 |
Chapter 12 Colorado Tick Fever | 185 |
Chapter 13 Tickborne Encephalitides | 193 |
Chapter 14 Tickborne Hemorrhagic Fever | 215 |
Chapter 15 New TickTransmitted Rickettsial Diseases | 233 |
Chapter 16 Tularemia | 251 |
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Back Cover | 282 |
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