title: Infection with B. burgdorferi s.l., and the CNS demyelinating disease. A case report.
abstract: The work describes three cases of patients at various ages, diagnosed for CNS demyelinating disease. The presence of specific antibodies to B. burgdorferi sensu lato, and findings of B. burgdorferi s.l. DNA, identified in one case as the genospecies B. garinii in the liquor, indicated previous experience with the infection. Presumably, persistence of borrelia in the organism could act as one of the autoimmune process triggers, resulting in the demyelinating disease.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Neurology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. durovska@borelioza.sk
authors.forename: Judita
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Durovska
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bazovska
authors.forename: Jaroslav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pancak
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaborska
authors.forename: Marketa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Derdakova
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Traubner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000276:immunology*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D003429:Cross Reactions; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020852:Lyme Neuroborreliosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D001323:Autoantibodies