منابع مشابه
Laboratory evaluation in the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
PURPOSE To provide a qualitative evaluation of the predictive value of the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease and to use the resultant data to formulate guidelines for clinical diagnosis. DATA SOURCES A MEDLINE search of English-language articles or articles with English-language abstracts published from 1982 to 1996. DATA EXTRACTION Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios were ca...
متن کاملDiagnosis and management of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. Transmission occurs primarily through the bite of an infected deer tick (Ixodes scapularis). Identification of an erythema migrans rash following a tick bite is the only clinical manifestation sufficient to make the diagnosis of Lyme disease in the absence of laboratory confir...
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while an important infectious disease in the united states and eurasia, lyme disease is rare in iran. we present a 9-year old boy admitted in children’s medical center in december 2001 with final diagnosis of lyme disease. on admission he showed arthritis and a history of previous skin lesions. serologic examination including enzyme–linked immunosorbent assay and western blot was positive for l...
متن کاملDiagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the United States. This review details the risk factors, clinical presentation, treatment, and prophylaxis for the disease. Information was obtained from a search of the PubMed and MEDLINE databases (keyword: Lyme disease) for articles published from August 31, 1997, through September 1, 2007. Approximately 20,000 cases of Lyme disease are r...
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This paper describes the development of a Bayesian model for diagnosis of patients suspected of Lyme disease, and the integration of such a model into a medical information system. A Bayesian network incorporating the clinical history and laboratory results has been constructed. Because many of the symptoms are not exclusive to Lyme disease and they develop over time, the clinical history is im...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0891-5520
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2015.02.005