From Diagnosis to Treatment .. And Prevention.
This Course is focused on Lyme disease, that is second most common vector-borne disease in the US, the first being West Nile Virus disease. In the Course, you will have an understanding of the importance of studying Lyme disease and a background knowledge of how the first cases of the disease were detected in Lyme, Connecticut.
The Course content also involves description of the three clinical manifestations of the disease, of which the "bull's eye" rash is typically found in quite a few patients at early stages and Lyme arthritis is most commonly encountered at a later stage of the disease. Since it is a tick-borne bacterial infection, the course also mentions the tick, the tick life cycle and the bacteria, along with the changes that occur on the bacterial surface as it is transmitted from tick to humans (or other hosts) and vice-versa.
Being a spirochete, which is a unique Gram-negative bacteria, a description of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, is also provided. Apart from clinical diagnosis, a laboratory diagnosis, according to CDC with step-by-step procedures for ELISA, IFA and Western Blot are provided.
In the Course, there is also explanation of the antibiotics of choice for treatment and cases of lingering clinical manifestations in spite of a complete therapy. At the very end, the main prevention methods available, along with the challenges of vaccination due to the ability of Borrelia to rapidly change the expression of its surface lipoproteins is also discussed.
Recognize the main signs and symptoms of Lyme disease
Follow instructions and steps for Western Blot, ELISA and IFA techniques
Describe the life cycle of the tick
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1 Lectures
1 Lectures
Dr. Sunita Seemanapalli has over 10 years of experience in biomedical research, particularly in field of Microbiology. She has a Medical Degree from the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. In order to better understand the basic mechanism of disease processes, she pursued graduate studies in the US. She earned an M.S. from Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA. Her Master's thesis...
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