The emerging spectrum of tickborne infections.
Recent advances in tickborne infections have generally served to reiterate existing clinical truisms: most tickborne infections must be diagnosed on clinical grounds alone, because laboratory testing is rarely useful in early illness; the usual presumptive therapy for treatable tickborne infections is doxycycline, which may be used even in childhood; except in very young infants, most tickborne infections are tolerated by children, whose outcome is generally benign.
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Department of Pediatrics, Lovelace Health System and University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87122, USA.