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Thirty-seven children with skin manifestations of Lyme borreliosis (31 with erythema chronicum migrans and six with lymphadenosis benigna cutis) were treated and followed up prospectivelly for 1-24 months (mean 7.58 months). The diagnosis was confirmed serologically by the finding of increased
Without evidence of erythema chronicum migrans, diagnostic confirmation of Lyme disease may be difficult, particularly if there are conflicting laboratory results. Often, for families and physicians, the clinical dilemma is whether fatigue, arthritis/arthralgias, a positive enzyme-linked
We studied 100 patients with tick-borne meningopolyneuritis (Garin-Bujadoux, Bannwarth), the neurologic component of European erythema chronicum migrans disease. They had intensive radicular pain, asymmetric polyneuritis combined often with uni- or bilateral facial palsy, lymphocytic meningitis
The microbiology, transmission, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease are reviewed. Lyme disease, a tick-borne syndrome, was first described in 1975. The etiologic agent of Lyme disease is Borrelia burgdorferi, a slow-growing spirochete. Lyme
We studied 35 patients with chronic meningitis. The neurological abnormalities included aseptic meningitis, cranial neuropathy (mostly facial palsy), motor and sensory peripheral radiculoneuropathy, and myelitis. Neurological symptoms were sometimes preceded by erythema chronicum migrans or an
21 patients studied had persistent or progressive chronic meningitis not associated with a demonstrable infectious or other disease, except Streptococcus milleri antigen in the cerebrospinal fluid of 1 patient. The cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) abnormalities consisted of a moderate, predominantly