[The use of a silver staining method in the diagnosis of the late skin lesions in ixodid tick-borne borreliosis in man].
The borreliosis etiology was verified in 60% cases of the morphea, 100% cases of the atrophoderma of Pasini-Pierini and 100% cases of anetoderma by means of IFA with Ip-21 antigen (B. afzelii) and silver staining after Levadity. Borreliae were located near the capillaries, muscular and areolar tissue fibers of the derm and near the granulated cells of epidermis.
Grigor'eva
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Babkin
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AV
D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors; D001706:Biopsy; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D016622:Silver Staining / Q000379:methods*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*