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Author Spotlight: Controlled Human Exposure Model for Tick Research and Lyme Disease Studies
Published on: December 1, 2023
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Lukas Maager1, Christian Lehmann2, Katja Weiss3
1Medbase St. Gallen Am Vadianplatz, St. Gallen, Schweiz.
Praxis
|November 16, 2023
Abstract
Introduction:
We report a 23-year-old patient who presented to the general practitioner due to persisting headache, fever, and vomiting. In the further course, a tetraparesis dominated on the right side, dysphagia and dysarthria occurred, and a general tonic-clonic seizure. Further examinations confirmed tick-borne encephalomyelitis as well as polyradiculitis. After two months of rehabilitation, neuropsychological as well as focal-neurological deficits persisted in the unvaccinated patient.

