BORRELIOOSIA ERI PUOLILLA MAAILMAA

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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 15.3.2006 7:35

Borrelioosia esiintyy käytännöllisesti katsoen kaikkialla maailmassa. Seuraavissa artikkeleissa sitä on löydetty mm. Mongoliasta ja Keniasta.


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Int J Med Microbiol. 2006 Mar 6; [Epub ahead of print]

Serological evidence for tick-borne encephalitis, borreliosis, and human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Mongolia.

Walder G, Lkhamsuren E, Shagdar A, Bataa J, Batmunkh T, Orth D, Heinz FX, Danichova GA, Khasnatinov MA, Wurzner R, Dierich MP.

Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Fritz-Pregl-Str. 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

Five hundred and forty-five serum samples from donors from various parts of Mongolia were investigated for antibodies against the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Seroprevalence against TBE was 5.1% in the province of Selenge and 0.9% in Bulgan province, seroprevalence against B. burgdorferi was 1.9% in Selenge province and Bulgan province, 13.9% in Dornogov province, and 3.0% in Tov province and Ulaanbaatar. Seroprevalence against A. phagocytophilum was 2.3% in Selenge province, 5.6% in Bulgan province, 2.8% in Dornogov province, and 3.0% in Tov province and Ulaanbaatar. We conclude that all three pathogens are endemic in Mongolia.

PMID: 16524782 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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East Afr Med J. 2005 May;82(5):267-9.
Lyme disease: report of two cases.

Jowi JO, Gathua SN.

Kenyatta National Hospital, P.O. Box 19624-00202, Nairobi, Kenya.

Lyme disease is a tick-borne multisystem disease. It was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, USA in 1975. Cases have been reported in Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Australia and Great Britain. It is an inflammatory disease that has varied clinical manifestations ranging from skin rash (erythema migrans), arthritis, fibromyalgia, and regional lymphadenopathy, cardiac conduction defects to neurological manifestations of meningoencephalitis, Bell's palsy, peripheral neuropathy, and painful radiculoneuropathy. There has been no case record of Lyme disease in Kenya and indeed literature on Lyme disease in Africa is very scanty. We present two cases of Lyme disease with predominant neurological manifestations; outline their clinical presentation and management.

Publication Types:
Case Reports

PMID: 16119758 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]