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Ischemic Stroke: Do Not Forget Lyme Neuroborreliosis

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Lyme neuroborreliosis is a rare cause of ischemic stroke; it has only been described in case reports and mostly in Europe. Diagnostic criteria have been proposed for Lyme neuroborreliosis but the association with a cerebral ischemic presentation is not always straightforward.
Gabriela Moreno Legast, Armin Schnider, Nicolas Nicastro, Chin-Chang Huang   +3 more
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“Ticking Bomb”: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incidence of Lyme Disease

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick‐borne disease in North America. It is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted to humans by blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis. The life cycle of the LD vector, I. scapularis, usually takes two to three years to complete and goes through three stages, all of which are dependent on environmental factors.
Igor Dumic, Edson Severnini, Paola Di Carlo   +2 more
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Diagnostics and treatment of erythema chronicum migrans Aftselius Lipschutz in a female patient with localized scleroderma under the condition of daytime hospital

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2013
The authors describe a case study of the primary stage of the Lyme disease erythema chronicum migrans in a female patient suffering from localized scleroderma.
M. M. Butareva, L. F. Znamenskaya, N. L. Muradyan, O. Brezgina, D. M. Afromeyeva   +4 more
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Neurological and immunological dysfunction in two patients with Bartonella henselae bacteremia

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 931-935, June 2017., 2017
Recently, BAPGM enrichment culture has documented Bartonella bacteremia in previously healthy, “nonimmunocompromised” patients following arthropod exposures. Neurobartonellosis should be among the differential diagnoses for patients with persistent or recurrent neurological symptoms of undetermined etiology.
David L. Kaufman, Andreas M. Kogelnik, Robert B. Mozayeni, Natalie A. Cherry, Edward B. Breitschwerdt   +4 more
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The First Evidence of Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Southern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. It is manifested by a variety of clinical symptoms and affects skin, joints, heart, and nervous system. Neurological manifestations are predictable and usually include meningoencephalitis, facial palsy, or ...
Jurica Arapovic, Sinisa Skocibusic, Svjetlana Grgic, Jadranka Nikolic, Sinésio Talhari   +4 more
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Lyme disease - a brief review and report of a case in Hong Kong [PDF]

, 1995
In a search for the spirochetes responsible for Lyme disease in Hong Kong, a sixty year old female, with a clinical diagnosis of arthritis, was found to have a rising antibody litre against Borrelia burgdorferi by indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA ...
Chan, BSS, Hodgkiss, IJ, Wong, YC
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New Described Dermatological Disorders

BioMed Research International, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014
Many advances in dermatology have been made in recent years. In the present review article, newly described disorders from the last six years are presented in detail. We divided these reports into different sections, including syndromes, autoinflammatory diseases, tumors, and unclassified disease.
Müzeyyen Gönül, Bengu Cevirgen Cemil, Havva Ozge Keseroglu, Havva Kaya Akis, Nobuo Kanazawa   +4 more
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Lyme Disease and Oncothermia

Conference Papers in Science, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
Lyme disease is a tick‐borne disease with multiple organ failures, and systemic disorders. Dramatic change becomes apparent in the chronic phase of the disease. Chronic fatigue syndrome, lapse of concentration, depression, joint pain, and muscle pain are a few, but major clinical symptoms characterizing the disease.
Ortwin Zais, Gian Franco Baronzio, Michael Jackson, Andras Szasz   +3 more
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Evaluating Frequency, Diagnostic Quality, and Cost of Lyme Borreliosis Testing in Germany: A Retrospective Model Analysis

Journal of Immunology Research, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Background. Data on the economic impact of Lyme borreliosis (LB) on European health care systems is scarce. This project focused on the epidemiology and costs for laboratory testing in LB patients in Germany. Materials and Methods. We performed a sentinel analysis of epidemiological and medicoeconomic data for 2007 and 2008.
I. Müller, M. H. Freitag, G. Poggensee, E. Scharnetzky, E. Straube, Ch. Schoerner, H. Hlobil, H.-J. Hagedorn, G. Stanek, A. Schubert-Unkmeir, D. E. Norris, J. Gensichen, K.-P. Hunfeld, Piotr Lewczuk   +13 more
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Discrepancy between IDSA and ESGBOR in Lyme disease: Individual participant meta‐analysis in Türkiye

Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 337-348, June 2024.
Abstract Background The evidence on the prevalence of Lyme borreliosis (LB) is limited, but there is a suspicion of overdiagnosis of LB in recent years. We reviewed the LB diagnosis and treatment‐related data in Türkiye, based on the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 2020 and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Abdullah Burak Yıldız, Ecesu Çetin, Fatihan Pınarlık, Şiran Keske, Füsun Can, Önder Ergönül   +5 more
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