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Shiv Gandhi1, Sukanya Narasimhan1, Aster Workineh1
1Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
|July 25, 2022
Abstract:
Borrelia miyamotoi is an underdiagnosed cause of tick-borne illness in endemic regions and, in rare cases, causes neurological disease in immunocompetent patients. Here, we present a case of serologically confirmed Borrelia miyamotoi meningoencephalitis in an otherwise healthy patient who rapidly improved following initiation of antibiotic therapy.

