Clinical approach to known and emerging tick-borne infections other than Lyme disease

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-418

  Shah, Rita G ^a   Sood, Sunil K ^a,b,c  

^a Children's Medical Center   (United States)

^b Southside Hospital of North Shore LIJ Health System   (United States)

^c Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Babesia; Borrelia; Deer tick; Ehrlichia; Relapsing fever; Rickettsia; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; Southern tick associated rash illness; Tick borne infection; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; QUININE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; BABESIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI INFECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORADO TICK FEVER; DEER TICK VIRUS; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEARTLAND VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; LYME DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PIROPLASMOSIS; POWASSAN ENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SOUTHERN TICK ASSOCIATED RASH ILLNESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879919324     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e328360dc49     Document Type: Review

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