Lyme disease
Subtitle: an evidence based approach
By: edited by John J. Halperin
Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- 20; Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- 20.
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781845938048
Subjects: Lyme disease; Lyme Disease
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ticks : the vectors of Lyme disease / Robert P. Smith; title: Borrelia : biology of the organism / A. Toledo, J. L. Benach; title: Borrelia : interactions with the host immune system / R. Dattwyler; title: Diagnostic testing / Barbara J. B. Johnson; title: Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection after antibiotic treatment : what can we learn from animal models? / J.W.R. Hovius and G.P. Wormser; title: Global epidemiology of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections / Paul S. Mead; title: Antibiotic therapy for infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi / Sensu Lato, Gary P. Wormser; title: Borreliosis : the UK perspective / Sue O'Connell; title: Borreliosis : the European perspective / Gerold Stanek; title: Erythema migrans / Robert B. Nadelman; title: Cardiac involvement / Joseph Harburger, Jonathan L. Halperin; title: Rheumatologic involvement / Leonard H Sigal; title: Nervous system involvement / John J. Halperin; title: Lyme disease in children / Eugene D. Shapiro; title: The psychology of "post Lyme disease syndrome" and "not Lyme" / Afton L. Hassett; title: The entity referred to as "chronic Lyme disease" / Adriana Marques; title: Lyme disease : the great controversy / John J. Halperin, Phillip Baker, Gary P. Wormser.