What should one do in case of a tick bite?

Current Problems in Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 155-166

  Aberer, Elisabeth ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; INSECT REPELLENT; PERMETHRIN; PHTHALIC ACID DIMETHYL ESTER; PLACEBO; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMACENTOR; DRUG EFFICACY; EHRLICHIOSIS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; EUROPE; FORCEPS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION RISK; INSECT CONTROL; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PRURITUS; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN EXAMINATION; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TRANSPORT HOST; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TULAREMIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INSECT BITE; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARACHNID VECTORS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE;

EID: 67649519427     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000213073     Document Type: Review

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