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Lyme disease : why it's spreading, how it makes you sick, and what to do about it  Cover Image Book Book

Lyme disease : why it's spreading, how it makes you sick, and what to do about it / Alan G. Barbour.

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  • ISBN: 9781421417219 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: ix, 315 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publisher: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
First edition published as: Lyme Disease: The Cause, the Cure, the Controversy, 1996.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Three case histories and a parable -- Early infection and the immune response -- Late infection and its complications -- The pathogen, its vector, and its reservoirs -- The ecology of lyme disease -- Approach to diagnosis -- Laboratory tests : the basics -- Putting laboratory testing in its place -- Antibiotics and lyme disease : the basics -- Putting the antibiotics to use -- After antibiotic therapy ends -- Deer ticks transmit other diseases -- Preventing lyme disease : community-wide measures -- Preventing lyme disease : personal and household protection.
Subject: Lyme disease.

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Lakeshore Branch 616.9246 Bar 2015 31681010345270 NONFICPBK Available -


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