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Symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Other Less Common
Life Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Ectoparasites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Disease Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Common Bedbugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Laboratory Diagnosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Leeches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Encysting of Trichinella Tooth Amoebae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
spiralis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Treatment and Prevention . . . . . . . . . 203
CHAPTER 11
Echinococcosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
ORGANISMS BORNE BY TICKS
Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 AND OTHER VECTORS 227
Life Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Disease Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ticks and Diseases Commonly
Laboratory Diagnosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Transmitted by These
Treatment and Prevention . . . . . . . . . 205
Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Other Common Tissue-Invasive
Avoiding the Contraction of Disease
Parasites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
from Tick Bites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Echinococcal Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Lyme Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Symptoms of Lyme Disease . . . . . . . . . 234
Life Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. . . . . . . 235
Differentiation between E. granulosus
Babesiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
and E. multilocularis. . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Human Ehrlichiosis in the
Laboratory Diagnosis and Disease
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Progression of Hydatid Disease . . . . 208
How Is Ehrlichiosis Contracted? . . . . . 242
Transmission and Prevention . . . . . . . 209
Symptoms of Ehrlichiosis . . . . . . . . . . 242
Generalized Life Cycle of the
Endemic Areas of the United States . . . 242
Tapeworm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Diagnosis and Treatment for
Infection in Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Ehrlichiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Symptoms of Hydatid Disease . . . . . . . 210 Southern Tick–Associated Rash
Treatment and Prevention . . . . . . . . . 211 Illness (STARI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Symptoms of STARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
CHAPTER 10
Causative Organism of Lyme Disease. . 243
ECTOPARASITES 213
Preventing Infection Related to
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 STARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Lice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Causes of STARI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Other Common Ectoparasites. . . . . . . 216 Tularemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Mites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 History of Tularemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Ticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Epidemiology for Tularemia . . . . . . . . 245
Fleas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Clinical Symptoms and Microbiological
Tropical Chigoes or Jiggers . . . . . . . . . 222 Diagnosis of Tularemia . . . . . . . . . 245