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Characterization of Anti-Phospholipid Antibodies in Lyme Borreliosis Using In-House Developed ELISAs [PDF]

Antibodies
Objectives: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, a spirochete bacterium responsible for Lyme borreliosis—the most common tick-borne infection in North America and Europe—can trigger the production of antiphospholipid antibodies.
Polona Žigon, Katja Lakota, Katarina Ogrinc, Petra Bogovič, Franc Strle   +4 more
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Basophilic Response in Patients with Persistent Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Borreliosis Treated with Hydrolysed Arabinoxylan Rice Bran [PDF]

Medicina
Background and Objectives: MGN-3/Biobran (BRM4, Lentin Plus or Ribraxx) is a natural, rice bran-derived arabinoxylan immunoceutical that modulates the adaptive immune response to viral infections.
Basant K. Puri, Gary S. Lee, Georgia Tuckey, Lisa Wyness, Reine Corley, Lucy Monaghan, Sari J. Arminen   +6 more
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Diagnostic probability classification in suspected borreliosis by a novel Borrelia C6-peptide IgG1- subclass antibody test

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
The tick-borne multisystemic infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease, occurring in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, continues to spread geographically with the expanding tick population. Despite
Dag Nyman, Dag Nyman, Marika Nordberg, Marika Nordberg, Clara Nyberg, Clara Nyberg, Susanne Olausson, Susanne Olausson, Nellie Carlströmer Berthen, Nellie Carlströmer Berthen, Sten-Anders Carlsson, Sten-Anders Carlsson   +11 more
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Lyme borreliosis in humans and dogs: One Health perspective

Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2023
Epidemiological and statistical methods were used to analyze the epidemiological situation regarding Lyme borreliosis in humans and domestic dogs in Ukraine.
O. V. Panteleienko, L. M. Chernenko, N. B. Vydayko, V. V. Ukhovskyi, A. Y. Melnyk, T. M. Tsarenko   +5 more
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Assessment of Borrelia miyamotoi in febrile patients and ticks in Alsace, an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis in France

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia species transmitted by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. Human disease caused by B. miyamotoi was first described in Russia and later in the USA and Japan.
Pierre H. Boyer, Joris Koetsveld, Laurence Zilliox, Hein Sprong, Émilie Talagrand-Reboul, Yves Hansmann, Sylvie Josiane de Martino, Nathalie Boulanger, Joppe W. Hovius, Benoît Jaulhac   +9 more
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Historical overview and update on relapsing fever group Borrelia in Latin America

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Relapsing fever group Borrelia (RFGB) are motile spirochetes transmitted to mammalian or avian hosts through the bite of hematophagous arthropods, such as soft ticks (Argasidae), hard ticks (Ixodidae) and the human clothing lice.
Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez, Carlos Ramiro Silva-Ramos, Adriana M. Santodomingo, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Francisco B. Costa, Marcelo B. Labruna, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal   +6 more
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“Repurposing” Disulfiram in the Treatment of Lyme Disease and Babesiosis: Retrospective Review of First 3 Years’ Experience in One Medical Practice

Antibiotics, 2020
A total of 71 patients with Lyme disease were identified for analysis in whom treatment with disulfiram was initiated between 15 March 2017 and 15 March 2020. Four patients were lost to follow-up, leaving 67 evaluable patients.
Jiachen Gao, Zhaodi Gong, Dawn Montesano, Erica Glazer, Kenneth Liegner   +4 more
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Influence of ecological and climatic conditions on the spread of Borrelia burgdorferi in domestic dogs in Ukraine

Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2022
Lyme-borreliosis is a zoonotic, infectious disease that has a complex chain of transmission of the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and includes the relationship between ixodid ticks, vertebrate hosts, humans and companion animals in the ...
O. V. Panteleienko, I. F. Makovska, T. M. Tsarenko   +2 more
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Predicting the risk of Lyme borreliosis after a tick bite, using a structural equation model. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
BACKGROUND:Understanding and quantification of the risk of Lyme borreliosis after a tick bite can aid development of prevention strategies against Lyme borreliosis.
Agnetha Hofhuis, Jan van de Kassteele, Hein Sprong, Cees C van den Wijngaard, Margriet G Harms, Manoj Fonville, Arieke Docters van Leeuwen, Mariana Simões, Wilfrid van Pelt   +8 more
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Multilocus sequence typing of clinical Borreliella afzelii strains: population structure and differential ability to disseminate in humans

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Lyme borreliosis in humans results in a range of clinical manifestations, thought to be partly due to differences in the pathogenicity of the infecting strain.
Floriane Gallais, Sylvie J. De Martino, Erik A. Sauleau, Yves Hansmann, Dan Lipsker, Cédric Lenormand, Emilie Talagrand-Reboul, Pierre H. Boyer, Nathalie Boulanger, Benoît Jaulhac, Frédéric Schramm   +10 more
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