In this month's "Hot Topic," Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will be discussing laboratory utilization management, specifically for diagnostic testing for tick-borne diseases.

0:00 Introduction
0:40 Testing Algorithm
1:28 Clinical Suspicion: Characteristics
2:37 Tickborne Relapsing Fever
3:35 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
5:00 Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, BMD
5:40 Geographical Location and Annual Incidence
7:00 Erythema migrans (bull's-eye rash)
8:07 Testing for Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, B. miyamotoi
9:37 Testing for Lyme disease
11:20 Testing Algorithm
12:00 Testing

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