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Browsing by Subject "Lyme disease"

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    All About Lyme Disease
    (2009-09-16) MacAfee, Lauren
    Lyme disease and tick bites are very common in Minnesota. This patient brochure discusses common features of Lyme disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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    All About Lyme Disease
    (2010-07-29) MacAfee, Lauren
    Lyme disease and tick bites are very common in Minnesota. This patient brochure discusses common features of Lyme disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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    Antibiotic treatment of post-Lyme syndrome is ineffective
    (2008-11-24) Batdorf, Bjorn
    Post-Lyme syndrome happens in patients who received standard treatment of 2-4 weeks of antibiotics, but still have chronic symptoms. These symptoms include muscle or joint pain, fatigue, memory or thinking difficulty, irritability, difficulty sleeping, depression, headache, or limb weakness. These symptoms occur without lab evidence for them such as markers of inflammation. Some clinicians suggest treatment with months of antibiotics. However, in three large clinical trials, long term treatment with antibiotics was the same as placebo in the treatment of these symptoms. While there currently is no treatment to cure post-Lyme syndrome, it is important for the patient to work closely with their physician to manage the symptoms.
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    Concerned about a Tick Bite?
    (2008-12-01) Saylor, Meredith
    Lyme disease is endemic in Minnesota with most cases occurring in the summer and fall. A single 200 mg dose of doxycycline given within 72 hours after a deer tick bite can prevent the development of Lyme disease.
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    Doxycycline Prophylaxis for Preventing Lyme Disease after a Deer Tick Bite
    (2009-09-18) Kramer, Christina
    After a deer tick bite, one dose of the antibiotic, doxycycline, is effective in preventing Lyme disease. Doxycycline should be given if you have had a deer tick attached for 72 hours or more. If the tick has been attached for less time then doxycycline is not needed because it is very unlikely that the Lyme disease bacteria would have been transmitted to you. Doxycycline should only be given if it was a deer tick that bit you. For doxycycline to be effective, it should be given within 72 hours of removing the tick.
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    Investigating Penicillin Binding Proteins in Borrelia Burgdorferi: Searching for Answers in the Treatment of Lyme Disease
    (2015) Ettestad, Brianna; Lipinski, Nathan; Clarke, Benjamin; Prunuske, Amy
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    Lyme Disease Prevention
    (2008-09-02) Bantle, Anne
    Patients in Minnesota are often bitten by ticks, and may be worried about their risk of Lyme disease. This brochure provides information on how to avoid tick bites, how to recognize Lyme disease, and when antibiotics are needed.
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    Novel methods for surveying reservoir hosts and vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi in Northern Minnesota
    (2015-10) Seifert, Veronica
    Lyme disease is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in North America and presents challenges to clinicians, researchers and the public in diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a zoonotic pathogen obligate upon hematophagous arthropod vectors and propagates in small mammal reservoir hosts. Identifying factors governing zoonotic diseases within regions of high-risk provides local health and agricultural agencies with necessary information to formulate public policy and implement treatment protocols to abate the rise and expansion of infectious disease outbreaks. In the United States, the documented primary reservoir host of Lyme disease is the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, and the arthropod vector is the deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Reducing the impact of Lyme disease will need novel methods for identifying both the reservoir host and the tick vector. The reservoir host, Peromyscus leucopus is difficult to distinguish from the virtually identical Peromyscus maniculatus that also is present in Northern Minnesota, a region where Lyme disease is endemic. Collection of the Ixodes tick, the Lyme disease vector, is difficult as this is season dependent and differs from year to year. This study develops new strategies to assess the extent of Borrelia burgdorferi in the local environment of Northern Minnesota. A selective and precise method to identify Peromyscus species was developed. This assay provides a reliable and definitive method to identify the reservoir host, Peromyscus leucopus from a physically identical and sympatric Peromyscus species, Peromyscus maniculatus. A new strategy to collect ticks for measuring the disbursement of Borrelia was employed. Students from local high schools were recruited to collect ticks. This strategy increased the available manpower to cover greater terrain, provided students with valuable experience in research methodology, and highlighted the prospect of increasing community engagement in university-based research projects.