Borrelia burgdorferi infection and cutaneous Lyme disease, Mexico.
Four patients who had received tick bites while visiting forests in Mexico had skin lesions that met the case definition of erythema migrans, or borrelial lymphocytoma. Clinical diagnosis was supported with histologic, serologic, and molecular tests. This study suggests the Borrelia burgdorferi infection is in Mexico.
Gordillo-Pérez
Guadalupe
G
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico. lugope2@hotmail.com
Torres
Javier
J
Solórzano-Santos
Fortino
F
de Martino
Sylvie
S
Lipsker
Dan
D
Velázquez
Edmundo
E
Ramon
Guillermo
G
Onofre
Muñoz
M
Jaulhac
Benoit
B
D000328:Adult; D015153:Blotting, Western; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group; D002648:Child; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D015787:Erythema Chronicum Migrans / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology