Prophylaxis with single-dose doxycycline for the prevention of lyme disease after an Ixodes scapularis tick bite

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 79-84

  Nadelman, Robert B ^a,b   Nowakowski, John ^a,b   Fish, Durland ^c   Falco, Richard C ^a,d   Freeman, Katherine ^e   McKenna, Donna ^a,b   Welch, Peter ^f   Marcus, Robert ^f   Agüero Rosenfeld, Maria E ^a   Dennis, David T ^g   Wormser, Gary P ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Northern Westchester Hospital   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEROCONVERSION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TICK BITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BITES AND STINGS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYMPH;

EID: 0035849937     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200107123450201     Document Type: Article

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