[Outline of Lyme borreliosis in Brazil].
Since 1989, we have identified 25 patients with Lyme disease, 15 in early and 10 in latent stage, supporting its existence in Brazil, according to following reasons: 1) presence of clinical manifestations compatible with Lyme disease, with cutaneous, articular, nervous system and rarely cardiac envolvement; 2) presence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi; 3) follow up of acute cases show sorologycal changes; 4) good antibiotic response at early stage of disease and only satisfactory in latent form; 5) mapping of risk areas, according to geographycal distribution of patients; 6) presence and identification of Ixodid ticks; 7) identification of micro-organism like borrelias in human, wild animals and ticks cultures, seen by dark field microscope; 8) sorology done in dogs and oxes, confirm existence of risk areas for Lyme disease.
Yoshinari
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NH
Disciplina de Reumatologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
de Barros
P J
PJ
Bonoldi
V L
VL
Ishikawa
M
M
Battesti
D M
DM
Pirana
S
S
da Fonseca
A H
AH
Schumaker
T T
TT
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology*