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Lyme Disease - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lyme Disease Epidemiology:
- Spirochete
- Reservoir: small mammals & birds
- Transmitted
Lyme Disease - Diagnosis ... Diagnosis: 1. ... Early: Doxycycline ... Disseminated: Doxycycline ... involvement - Oral doxycycline
Lyme Disease: Clinical diagnosis. Likely if recent hiking, travel to endemic area, erythema migrans (EM), an
Lyme Disease: Clinical ... diagnosis. ... Treatment is doxycycline ... for disease involving ... #Diagnosis #LymeDisease
Lyme Disease Pearls

Epidemiology: Ixodes scapularis carrying borrelia 
have spread and are now found in 
growing areas
Lyme Disease Pearls ... Treating with doxycycline ... old is fine #Diagnosis
Mycoplasma genitalium: microbiology, screening/diagnosis, clinical syndromes, treatment, and other notes

By Dr. Sara Dong @swinndong via Febrile
microbiology, screening/diagnosis ... ID #Infectious Diseases ... microbiology #STI #doxycycline
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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Tularemia - Diagnosis ... underlying conditions Diagnosis ... Treatment: • Severe Disease ... Streptomycin • Moderate Disease ... Levofloxacin 2) Doxycycline
Rickettsiae: Spotted Fever group

R. rickettsii 
R. parkeri 
R. philipii / Rickettsia 364D
R. africae 
R. australis 
R.
Treatment: - Doxycycline ... alternative for mild disease ... #Species #SFG #Diagnosis
Lyme Disease: Early and Late Stage Treatment
Stage 1. Localized
 • Doxycycline, amoxicillin, cefuroxime x 10-14d
Stage 2.
Lyme Disease: Early ... Localized • Doxycycline ... Isolated palsy: doxycycline ... 1st degree AVB: doxycycline ... WuidQ #Lyme #Disease
Outpatient Treatment of with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)
No comorbidities or risk factors for MRSA or Pseudomonas aeruginosa:
Amoxicillin or • doxycycline ... AND macrolide or doxycyclinex
ACE Trial: Randomized controlled trial of Ceftriaxone and doxycycline, with or without metronidazole, for the treatment
Ceftriaxone and doxycycline ... ID #Infectious Diseases ... #inflammatory #disease
By Marcela Santana @Marcelaaos via Febrile [febrilepodcast.com @febrilepodcast]
#ID  #Infectious Diseases  #Infections
#Microbiology #Micro
#Leptospirosis #Leptospira #management
ID #Infectious Diseases ... Leptospira #management #doxycycline