Arthropods Flashcards
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What are Xenotransplants?
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Transplantation, implantation of infusion into a human recipient
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What causes Lyme disease?
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Borrelia is a genus of bacteria of Spirochaete phylum
Lyme borreliosis causes Lyme disease
Other species cause relapsin fever
Lyme disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi which is divided into the pathogenic genospecies…
- B. burgdorferi (USA and Europe)
- B. afzelii (Asia and Europe)
- B. garinii (Asia and Europe)
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How are humans infected with lyme disease?
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Through bites of immature ticks called nymphs
Ticks must attach for 36-48 hours before lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted
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What is chronic lyme disease?
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Broad array of illnesses or symptom complexes for which there is no reproducable or convincing scientific evidnece of any relationship to B.burgdorfeli infection
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Limitations to lyme disease
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- IgM and IgG appear weeks after onset
- Antibiotics suppress antibody development
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