[Disease (Lyme disease) in pediatric patients in Switzerland caused by spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi) of Ixodes ricinus].
Lyme disease in children is studied in the light of questionnaires sent out twice to departments and divisions of pediatrics in Switzerland. Thirty-six serologically proven cases were collected. The 48 clinical signs attributed to Lyme disease involved the skin in 40%, the nervous system in 40%, and the joints in 20%. They were erythema chronicum migrans (13), lymphocytoma (4), acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (2), peripheral facial palsy (14), sensomotor radiculoneuritis (2), meningoencephalitis (3) and arthritis (10, 7 of which were monoarthritic). Only half the patients had a history of tick-bite. Antibiotic therapy, usually with penicillin, reduced both the duration of symptoms and frequency of secondary disease. Cardiac involvement and chronic stages with residua were not observed in this series.
D000293:Adolescent; D001898:Borrelia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology
Durch Ixodes-ricinus-Spirochäten (Borrelia burgdorferi) verursachte Krankheitsbilder (Lyme-Krankheit) bei pädiatrischen Patienten in der Schweiz.