Tickborne Infectious Diseases: Diagnosis and Management

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This volume deals exclusively with tickborne infectious diseases. It includes comprehensive coverage of babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Colorado tick fever, with a special emphasis on Lyme disease. 1. The Natural History of Ticks: A Human Health Perspective / Andrew Spielman, J. Christina Hodgson 1 -- 2. Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnosis of Tickborne Diseases / J. Stephen Dumler, Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld 15 -- 3. Lyme Neuroborreliosis / John J. Halperin 55 -- 4. Cardiovascular Manifestations of Lyme Disease / Jason M. Lazar 73 -- 5. Lyme Arthritis / Prachi Anand, Steven E. Carsons 81 -- 6. Lyme Vaccine / Saray Stancic, John Nowakowski, Gary P. Wormser 93 -- 7. Tick Paralysis / Jose M. Torres, David Schlossberg 103 -- 8. Babesiosis / Kanu P. Sharan, Peter J. Krause 111 -- 9. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Theodore E. Woodward, Burke A. Cunha 121 -- 10. Ehrlichiosis / Johan S. Bakken, J. Stephen Dumler 139 -- 11. Tickborne Relapsing Fever / Kerstin E. Calia, Frank M. Calia 169 -- 12. Colorado Tick Fever / Deborah K. Riley, Spotswood L. Spruance 185 -- 13. Tickborne Encephalitides / Sam R. Telford III, Ivo M. Foppa 193 -- 14. Tickborne Hemorrhagic Fever / Douglas L. Mayers 215 -- 15. New Tick-Transmitted Rickettsial Diseases / Philippe Parola, Didier Raoult 233 -- 16. Tularemia / Burke A. Cunha 251.