Lyme Borreliosis in Europe and North America: Epidemiology and Clinical PracticeISBN: 978-0-470-64752-3
Hardcover
274 pages
June 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgment ix
Contributors xi
1 THE EMERGENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF LYME BORRELIOSIS IN EUROPE
AND NORTH AMERICA 1
Sunil K. Sood, Susan O'Connell, and Klaus Weber
2 THE SPIROCHETES AND VECTOR TICKS OF LYME BORRELIOSIS IN NATURE
37
Joseph Piesman and Pierre-Francois Humair
3 EARLY LYME BORRELIOSIS 53
Vijay K. Sikand and Robert R. Mu¨llegger
4 LYME CARDITIS 81
Fadi A. Haddad and Sunil K. Sood
5 NERVOUS SYSTEM LYME BORRELIOSIS 93
John J. Halperin and Leif Dotevall
6 LYME ARTHRITIS 115
Frank Dressler, Patricia I. Irigoyen, Norman T. Ilowite, and
Hans-Iko Huppertz
7 BORRELIAL LYMPHOCYTOMA AND ACRODERMATITIS CHRONICA ATROPHICANS
135
Mark B. Salzman and Robert R. Mullegger
8 LYME BORRELIOSIS COINFECTIONS WITH ANAPLASMA AND BABESIA
149
Paul M. Lantos and Peter J. Krause
9 THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION IN
DIAGNOSIS OF LYME BORRELIOSIS 159
Gary P. Wormser and Guiqing Wang
10 SERODIAGNOSIS OF LYME BORRELIOSIS 185
Barbara J. B. Johnson, Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld, and Bettina
Wilske
11 PROGNOSIS OF PERSONS WITH LYME BORRELIOSIS 213
Eugene D. Shapiro and Sunil K. Sood
12 PREVENTION OF LYME BORRELIOSIS 225
Sunil K. Sood
Index 245