Posts Tagged ‘Fish’

Borrelia miyamotoi Infection in Nature and in Humans

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2015. An overview of Borrelia miyamotoi infection in humans, where it can be found and how it is transmitted, including through the bite of a larval tick. Includes chart, images, map, table.

http://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(15)00294-3/fulltext 

MLST of Housekeeping Genes Captures Geographic Population Structure and Suggests a European Origin of Borrelia Burgdorferi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A study of the Lyme genome indicates that the American strain is evolved from earlier European strains. Includes charts.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/105/25/8730

Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease

Infectious Diseases Society of America. The original treatment guidelines published by the IDSA, revised in 2006, and under review due to possible ethical irregularities in 2008. Includes tables.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/314053

The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and coinfections. Includes tables and images.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/508667