Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Florida's Lyme Disease Variant

Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is an emerging zoonotic disease causing an annular rash with central clearing that is almost identical to erythema migrans seen in Lyme disease. It is spread by Amblyomma americanum tick bite. Although it is still debatable, this zoonotic disease is thou...

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Autores principales: Abdelmaseih, Ramy, Ashraf, Bilal, Abdelmasih, Randa, Dunn, Sandi, Nasser, Hesham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221760
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15306
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author Abdelmaseih, Ramy
Ashraf, Bilal
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Nasser, Hesham
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description Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is an emerging zoonotic disease causing an annular rash with central clearing that is almost identical to erythema migrans seen in Lyme disease. It is spread by Amblyomma americanum tick bite. Although it is still debatable, this zoonotic disease is thought to be caused by Borrelia lonestari spirochete. At this time, there is no approved diagnostic modality nor approved treatment for such an illness. Here we describe a rare case of STARI in a 63-year-old female and shed light on the differences between STARI and Lyme disease.
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spelling pubmed-82379212021-07-01 Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Florida's Lyme Disease Variant Abdelmaseih, Ramy Ashraf, Bilal Abdelmasih, Randa Dunn, Sandi Nasser, Hesham Cureus Internal Medicine Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is an emerging zoonotic disease causing an annular rash with central clearing that is almost identical to erythema migrans seen in Lyme disease. It is spread by Amblyomma americanum tick bite. Although it is still debatable, this zoonotic disease is thought to be caused by Borrelia lonestari spirochete. At this time, there is no approved diagnostic modality nor approved treatment for such an illness. Here we describe a rare case of STARI in a 63-year-old female and shed light on the differences between STARI and Lyme disease. Cureus 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8237921/ /pubmed/34221760 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15306 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abdelmaseih et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Florida's Lyme Disease Variant
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237921/
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