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Lyme disease : why it's spreading, how it makes you sick, and what to do about it / Alan G. Barbour, MD.

By: Series: A Johns Hopkins press health bookPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]Description: ix, 375 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421417202 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781421417219 (pbk.)
  • 1421417200 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1421417219 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.9/246 23
LOC classification:
  • RC155.5 .B38 2015
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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