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
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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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author Grover, Ashok Kumar
Singh, Purneetha
Puri, Saurabh
Jindal, Saurabh
Choudhary, Pankaj Nand
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description 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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spelling pubmed-96386322022-11-08 Dog tick (Rhipecephalus) causing Lyme disease in an adult human Grover, Ashok Kumar Singh, Purneetha Puri, Saurabh Jindal, Saurabh Choudhary, Pankaj Nand J Family Med Prim Care Case Report 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. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-08 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9638632/ /pubmed/36352974 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_33_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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