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Excerpt:

The tick bite transmitted Lyme disease is one of the most common
antropozoonosis, about 10 000 new infections are reported in
Hungary each year.
The progress and clinical presentation can vary, and carditis can
occur in later stages. A serologically verified Lyme disease
caused third degree atrioventricular block in young male
presenting with presyncope. Based on the tick-bites mentioned a
few weeks prior to hospital admission, Lyme carditis was
considered with the administration of antibiotics and monitor
observation.
Typical skin lesions were not recognized and laboratory findings
showed no pathology. An electrophysiological study recorded a
predominant supra-His atrioventricular block. Total regression of
conduction could be detected later and the serological tests
established an underlying Lyme disease. Currently no definite
treatment recommendation is available for the potentially
reversible Lyme carditis. The tick bite seemed to be the key on
our way to diagnosis; however, serological tests proved the
disease to be older than one year. A detailed medical history and
serological tests are essential in identifying the cause and
pacemaker implantation can be avoided. Orv. Hetil., 2010, 39,
1585-1590.

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

A fatal case of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in the State of Delaware
Yong Zhao, Kenneth R. Love, Scott W. Hall, and Frank V. Beardell

Background: Most cases of human babesiosis in North America are caused
by Babesia microti, which is endemic in the northeastern and upper
midwestern United States. Although the disease is usually transmitted by
a tick bite, there has been an increase in the number of
transfusion-transmitted cases reported. We describe a fatal case of
transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a nonendemic state, Delaware. Continued