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Dog tick (Rhipecephalus) causing Lyme disease in an adult human

Lyme disease is a tick-borne multisystem disorder transmitted by the family of Ixodes and caused by a spirochete, Borrelia. An early manifestation of the disease presents with skin lesions typically called Erythema chronicum migrans (ECM). Doxycycline should be the antibiotic of choice used for its...

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Autores principales: Grover, Ashok Kumar, Singh, Purneetha, Puri, Saurabh, Jindal, Saurabh, Choudhary, Pankaj Nand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36352974
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_33_22