Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:20:10 -0500
From: “John R Dykers”
Subject: Re: ticks
ANY sign or symptoms of Lyme surely calls for longer treatment. EARLY, when the potential innoculum is small, makes all the difference.
John Dykers
Actually, an excisional biopsy of a severely embedded tick, is rational therapy. I am ignorant of what diagnostically or therapeutically might be learned from a pathologist’s examination of the specimen, other than the inflammatory reaction. Can the infecting organism be identified in the tissue? Should a part of such a specimen be cultured? Anyone know???? I will copy to other doc’s whose email address is in my list.
JRD