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Volume 3, issue 2

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Borreliosis

KRZYSZTOF NADGRODKIEWICZ1
1. Oddziału Neurologii Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego w Radomiu
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1994, 3, 209-212
Keywords: borreliosis, etiopathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis

Abstract

Borreliosis or the Lyme disease (tick spirochaetosis) is caused by Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted by the ticks of Ixodes family. Borreliosis is a multisystemic disease, affecting skin (erythema migrans), cardiac muscle (inflammatory process and ventriculo-atrial conduction disorders), joints (arthritis), and the nervous system (most often – meningopoliradiculoneuritis).The diagnosis is based mainly on serologic tests results: detection of antibodies IgM and IgG is prerequisite for antibiotic therapy which – if started early enough – prevents tardive organic complications.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Krzysztof Nadgrodkiewicz,
Oddział Neurologii Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego,
ul. Żeromskiego 113 m. 23,
26-600 Radom