Sentences with phrase «with erythema migrans»

The guidelines cover three common issues faced by clinicians: management of a known tick bite, antibiotic treatment of patients with erythema migrans rash, and management of patients who remain ill following antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease.

Use of a novel technique of cutaneous lavage for diagnosis of Lyme disease associated with erythema migrans

It is also possible that most of the systemic symptoms that are reported by persons with erythema migrans are caused by the local skin infection per se and that these symptoms may occur irrespective of B. burgdorferi subtype.

All subjects were adults with erythema migrans enrolled in a prospective study at the Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center of the Westchester Medical Center between 1991 and 1997.

In one natural history study of 55 untreated US patients with early Lyme disease associated with erythema migrans, 34 (62 %) developed objective signs of arthritis, 10 (18 %) developed arthralgias without arthritis, but 11 (20 %) remained completely well over a mean follow - up of 6 years [2].

This study suggests that a major determinant of the risk for hematogenous dissemination of B. burgdorferi in Lyme disease patients with erythema migrans is the genetic subtype of the infecting strain in the skin.

Xenodiagnosis was positive for B. burgdorferi DNA in the person with erythema migrans who underwent xenodiagnosis early during therapy and in a volunteer with PTLDS.

Participants included 10 people with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS); 10 who had high levels of an antibody against B. burgdorferi after antibiotic treatment; five who had erythema migrans (a bull's - eye rash) and had received antibiotic treatment in the past; one person with erythema migrans who began antibiotic therapy at the time of tick placement; and 10 healthy volunteers.

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So - called erythema migrans is a sure sign of infection with tick - borne Lyme disease.

Azithromycin compared with amoxicillin in the treatment of erythema migrans.

In 1995, a 63 - year - old man with no history of neurological dysfunction presented with the classic Lyme - associated «bulls eye» (erythema migrans) rash, tremors, joint pain and swelling.