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Methods for Rapid Transfer and Localization of Lyme Disease Pathogens Within the Tick Gut
Published on: February 14, 2011
[Acute polyradiculoneuritis and Lyme disease]
P Diraison1, G Lheveder, S Lanusse
1Service de Neurologie, CHU La Cavale Blanche, Brest.
Abstract:
A thirty-three-year-old patient developed polyradiculoneuritis with several post-therapeutic relapses despite excellent response to treatment by intravenous polyvalent gammaglobulin. After the second relapse, positive titres for Borrelia burgdorferi were found in serum and C.S.F. We gave her intravenous antibiotic and clinical signs and electrophysiological data improved. Our report and the literature can distinguish two clinical and electrophysiological presentations of neurological peripheral involvement in Lyme disease: meningoradiculoneuritis with axonal involvement and polyradiculoneuritis with demyelinization.
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