ALLMedicine™ Tick-borne Illnesses Center

Jun 24th, 2022 - Lyme disease is a multisystem illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and it is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States. Tick-borne disease cases reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have ...

Jun 20th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a disorder of the central nervous system which has been associated with preceding infection as well as vaccinations. We present a case of a 61-year-old woman with ADEM after receiving her i...

Nov 26th, 2021 - Ticks are haematophagous arthropods that parasitise a wide range of vertebrate hosts. In Australia, there are currently 74 tick species described; 22 tick species have been reported parasitising humans. The stump-tailed lizard tick, Amblyomma albo...

Apr 18th, 2021 - A 70-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fevers, ankle edema and nausea following a presumed insect bite on his ankle 1 month prior. On examination, he was febrile and had left leg pain with passive range of motion. Laboratory ...

Apr 5th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, is a multisystem illness usually caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (see the image below) and the body's immune response to the ...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Lyme disease is a multisystem illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and it is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States. Tick-borne disease cases reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have ...

Jul 22nd, 2020 - CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A bill that establishes a commission to study the limitations of current testing for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses and available treatment has been signed into law by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. The commissi...

Oct 8th, 2019 - Case Reports Patient 1 A 65-year-old woman presented to the dermatology clinic in July with a pruritic rash of 2 days’ duration that started on the back and spread diffusely. The patient gardened regularly.

Nov 14th, 2018 - Tick-borne diseases are once again on the rise in the United States, and the reasons aren't clear, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a news release today. In 2017, state and local health departments reported a record num...

Aug 6th, 2018 - The incidence of tick-borne disease in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate, officials from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases say. They call on public health and biomedical researchers to double down on effor...

May 9th, 2017 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...