By Linda on Nov 24, 2009 in Infections | comments(0)
Lyme Disease is transmitted by an arthropod, the Ixodes dammini tick. The spirochete causing the disease is the Borrelia burgdorferi.
Over the past nine years, we have treated over three hundred children for Lyme Disease in the hospital because they had significant neurologic manifestations of Lyme Disease or, in the minority of cases, an arthritis necessitating hospitalization for intravenous antibiotics. Continued
By Linda on Nov 16, 2009 in General News | comments(0)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 01 – Manifestations of Lyme carditis in children can range from asymptomatic first-degree heart block to fulminant myocarditis, physicians at Harvard Medical School report in the May issue of Pediatrics. Data from their case series indicate that older age, arthralgia, and cardiopulmonary symptoms were independent predictors of carditis in pediatric patients with early disseminated Lyme disease. Continued
By Linda on Nov 16, 2009 in General News, Infections | comments(0)
Journal European Journal of Pediatrics
Patrick Michael Meyer1 Contact Information, Hanspeter Zimmermann2 and Philippe Goetschel1
Received: 9 August 2009 Accepted: 12 October 2009 Published online: 4
November 2009
Abstract
Introduction Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) presents without neurologic
symptoms in 19% in children less than 16 years in Switzerland
(2000–2008). In these cases, fever can be the only leading manifestation.
Case series We report on four hospitalised children who had TBE and
presented as fever without localising signs (FWLS) between 2000 and 2008
in an endemic area in Switzerland. Continued
