Chronic central nervous system involvement in Lyme borreliosis.
We describe four patients with marked chronic meningoencephalomyelitis caused by tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi infection. Imaging techniques showed either MS-like lesions or evidence of vascular involvement, as in other spirochetal infections, especially in meningovascular syphilis.
Kohler
J
J
Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Kern
U
U
Kasper
J
J
Rhese-Küpper
B
B
Thoden
U
U
D000328:Adult; D001899:Borrelia Infections / Q000150:complications*; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged