Staphylococcus aureus meningitis after short-term epidural analgesia.

SIR-In a report of their experience at a referral center for patients with suspected Lyme disease [1], Burdge and O'Hanlon describe British Columbia as an area that is not known to be endemic for Lyme borreliosis. Recently, however, Borrelia burgdorferi and/or variants ofthe organism have been isolated from ticks and rodents from eight sites widely distributed throughout British Columbia. This research was a collaborative effort of the Vancouver, British Co-