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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Case Report
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
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Sumario: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 treatment. However, we present the case of Lyme’s disease in an adult male with dog tick, Rhipecephalus as a vector.

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