Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America : epidemiology and clinical practice /

• Other Authors: Sood, Sunil K. (Sunil Kumar)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]
• Subjects: Lyme disease > Europe.; Lyme disease > North America.; Lyme Disease > diagnosis.; Lyme Disease > epidemiology.; Lyme Disease > therapy.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.; MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.; MEDICAL > Diseases.; MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.; MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.; Lyme disease.; Europe.; North America.; Electronic resource.; Electronic books.

The discovery of Lyme disease, biologically better termed Lyme borreliosis, has provided scientists with a tremendous opportunity to elucidate pathophysiologic mechanisms in borrelial infections. Large, carefully designed, and mostly prospective clinico-epidemiologic studies are the basis for the ev...

Table of Contents:

• The Emergence and Epidemiology of Lyme Borreliosis in Europe and North America / Sunil K Sood, Susan O'Connell, Klaus Weber
• The Spirochetes and Vector Ticks of Lyme Borreliosis in Nature / Joseph Piesman, Pierre-Fraṅois Humair
• Early Lyme Borreliosis / Vijay K Sikand, Robert R Mullegger
• Lyme Carditis / Fadi A Haddad, Sunil K Sood
• Nervous System Lyme Borreliosis / John J Halperin, Leif Dotevall
• Lyme Arthritis / Frank Dressler, Patricia I Irigoyen, Norman T Ilowite, Hans-Iko Huppertz
• Borrelial Lymphocytoma and Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans / Mark B Salzman, Robert R Mullegger
• Lyme Borreliosis Coinfections with Anaplasma And Babesia / Paul M Lantos, Peter J Krause
• The Role of Culture and Nucleic Acid Amplification in Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis / Gary P Wormser, Guiqing Wang
• Serodiagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis / Barbara J B Johnson, Maria E Aguero-Rosenfeld, Bettina Wilske
• Prognosis of Persons with Lyme Borreliosis / Eugene D Shapiro, Sunil K Sood
• Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis / Sunil K Sood.