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Extracción de garrapatas - Información general

Definición:

Las garrapatas son criaturas pequeñas similares a insectos que viven en los bosques y en los campos. Se adhieren a las personas al pasar por el medio de arbustos, plantas y pasto. Una vez que se le pegan a la persona, las garrapatas de desplazan hasta lugares calientes y húmedos, como las axilas, la ingle y el cabello. Las garrapatas se pegan firmemente a la piel de manera típica y comienzan a chupar sangre para alimentarse.

Las garrapatas pueden ser bastante grandes --aproximadamente del tamaño del borrador de un lápiz-- o tan pequeñas que es casi imposible verlas. Las garrapatas pueden causar una variedad de problemas de salud que van desde casos inofensivos hasta problemas serios.

Ver también: picaduras de garrapatas

  • Fecha de revisión: 5/20/2008
  • Versión en inglés revisada por:Jatin M. Vyas, PhD, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
  • Traducción y localización realizada por: DrTango, Inc

Referencias

Long SS. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 2nd ed. Elsevier; 2003: 1372-1373.

Feder HM Jr, Johnson BJ, O'Connell S, Shapiro ED, Steere AC, Wormser GP. Ad Hoc International Lyme Disease Group. A critical appraisal of "chronic Lyme disease." N Engl J Med. 2007;357:1422-1430.

Halperin JJ, Shapiro ED, Logigian E, Belman AL, Dotevall L, Wormser GP, et al. Practice parameter: treatment of nervous system Lyme disease (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2007;69:91-102.

Wormser GP, Dattwyler RJ, Shapiro ED, Halperin JJ, Steere AC, Klempner MS, et al. The clinical assessment, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and babesiosis: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;43:1089-1134.

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