By Linda on Sep 15, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)
Linda’s comment: There are so many different types of European Lyme Borreliosis in whom borreliae were isolated from the blood are rare and nearly exclusively is limited to those ith solitary or mltiple erythema migrans.
Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21153429&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks
Excerpt:
CONCLUSIONS: In European patients with Lyme borreliosis, borreliae can be
cultured from the blood not only early in the course of the disease but also
occasionally later during disease progression.
By Linda on Jul 10, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Excerpt:
The known spectrum of skin manifestations in cutaneous Lyme disease is continuously expanding and can not be regarded as completed. Besides the classical manifestations of cutaneous borreliosis like erythema (chronicum) migrans, borrelial lymphocytoma and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans evidence is growing that at least in part also other skin manifestations, especially morphea, lichen sclerosus and cases of cutaneous B-cell lymphoma are causally related to infections with Borrelia. Also granuloma annulare and interstitial granulomatous dermatitis might be partly caused by Borrelia burgdorferi or similar strains. There are also single reports of other skin manifestations to be associated with borrelial infections like cutaneous sarcoidosis, necrobiosis lipoidica and necrobiotic xanthogranuloma. In addition, as the modern chameleon of dermatology, cutaneous borreliosis, especially borrelial lymphocytoma, mimics other skin conditions, as has been shown for erythema annulare centrifugum or lymphocytic infiltration (Jessner Kanof) of the skin.
