Transcript Borellia Burgdofer -Lyme Disease

Borellia burgdofer -Lyme
Disease
Carlie Whiting
Lyme Disease
•What Is lyme Disease?
•Signs and Symptoms
•Stages
•Diagnosis
•Treatment
•Prevention
What is Lyme’s Disease?
• Lyme Disease is an inflammatory
disease caused by Borelli burgdorfer.
Borellia is a loosely coiled spirochete.
• It is contracted through tick bites and is
difficult to diagnose.
• It can take 2 days to 2 weeks to
diagnose.
What is Lyme Disease?
• It is the most common vector-borne
infection in the U.S.
• The vector is the Ixodid tick, which has
the ability to “hitchhike” on the host
(humans).
• The tick will attach and begin to fill with
blood, becoming more than 100x its
orginial size and infecting the human.
Deer Tick
Signs and Symptoms
• Rash at the site of the bite
• Flu Like Symptoms: fever, headache,
muscle pain and dizziness
• After a couple days or weeks, a rash will
spread like a bullseye. Clear center,
outer red bands are raised.
Rash
Stage 1-3
• Stage 1- rash (20% lack), migraines,
flu like symptoms
• Stage 2- Stage 1 symptoms begin to
get worse, rash gets bigger
• Stage 3-heart and nervous system
problems (memory loss, facial palsy,
joint inflammation)
Diagnosis
• The ELISA test- tests for the presence
of antibodies
• If the ELISA test comes back positive,
than the Western Blot is used to confirm
that the disease is Lyme Disease.
• The red ring rash is an easier diagnosis,
but as stated before it can take a long
time for it to appear.
Treatment
• Antibiotics: doxycycline, amoxicillin,
ceftriaxone and penicillin
• If there is a late diagnosis (2nd or 3rd
stage), antibiotics need to taken for 4
weeks and even longer if severe
arthritis occurred.
Prevention
Closed toed shoes
Long sleeve
shirt/jacket
Long pants
A good friend :)
Works Cited
• https://health.google.com/health/ref/Lym
e+disease+-+chronic+persistent
• Microbiology. Cowan and Talaro, 2006.
Pg 620-621.