Lyme disease: case report of persistent Lyme disease from Pulaski County, Virginia

A 50-year-old woman from Pulaski, Virginia, presented to a local clinic with headaches, fever, generalized joint pain, excessive thirst and fluid intake, and a progressing rash on her back. On physical examination, she had a large circular red rash on her back with a bull’s-eye appearance, 16 × 18 c...

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Autores principales: Palmieri, James R, King, Scott, Case, Matthew, Santo, Arben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3862396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353444
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S51240
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description A 50-year-old woman from Pulaski, Virginia, presented to a local clinic with headaches, fever, generalized joint pain, excessive thirst and fluid intake, and a progressing rash on her back. On physical examination, she had a large circular red rash on her back with a bull’s-eye appearance, 16 × 18 cm in diameter. Serologic tests confirmed a diagnosis of Lyme disease. The patient could recall a walk through the woods 3 weeks prior, although she never noticed a tick on her body. Following a prolonged course of antibiotics, this case report presents a patient with ongoing symptoms consistent with post-treatment Lyme disease.
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spelling pubmed-38623962013-12-18 Lyme disease: case report of persistent Lyme disease from Pulaski County, Virginia Palmieri, James R King, Scott Case, Matthew Santo, Arben Int Med Case Rep J Case Report A 50-year-old woman from Pulaski, Virginia, presented to a local clinic with headaches, fever, generalized joint pain, excessive thirst and fluid intake, and a progressing rash on her back. On physical examination, she had a large circular red rash on her back with a bull’s-eye appearance, 16 × 18 cm in diameter. Serologic tests confirmed a diagnosis of Lyme disease. The patient could recall a walk through the woods 3 weeks prior, although she never noticed a tick on her body. Following a prolonged course of antibiotics, this case report presents a patient with ongoing symptoms consistent with post-treatment Lyme disease. Dove Medical Press 2013-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3862396/ /pubmed/24353444 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S51240 Text en © 2013 Palmieri et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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