Tick Bite Flashcards

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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Caused by Rickettsia rickettsi

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RMSF

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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Wood tick or dog tick

3-14 day incubation period

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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Rash begins on wrists
- pink, blanchable macules
- generalized in 6-18 hours
Fever
HA
Myalgia
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Tx

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Doxycycline

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Lyme Disease

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Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi

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Lyme Disease

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Ixodes sp. tick

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Lyme Disease

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Erythema (chronicum) migrans 
- "Bull's eye"
Weeks to months
- cardiac 
- neurological
- rheumatologic
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Lyme Disease Tx

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Serology not helpful

Doxycycline 100mg po bid for 21 days

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