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Article: Lyme disease prevention and treatment.(THE EFFECTIVE PHYSICIAN)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Background
The Infectious Diseases Society of America recently updated its guidelines on identification and management of Lyme disease and other zoonoses associated with bites from Ixodes ticks.
Conclusions
Ixodes scapularis ticks can carry and transmit the organisms responsible for causing Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), and babesiosis.
Lyme disease is caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi; it is the most common tick-associated infection in North America and is endemic in the Northeast, the upper Midwest, and Northern California. There have been no proven locally acquired cases of Lyme ...