Travel and tick-borne diseases: Lyme disease and beyond
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Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Many recall the phrase "To know syphilis is to know medicine." Now Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis), the new "great imitator,"1 is the ultimate challenge to the breadth and depth of our knowledge. In psychiatry, we generally treat mental symptoms or syndromes rather than the underlying cause of a disorder. A greater awareness of immune reactions to infections and other contributors to mental ill...
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عنوان ژورنال: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1477-8939
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.09.010