OBJECTIVE This study aimed at finding epidemiological and clinical features of autochthonous Lyme borreliosis in humans through epidemiological investigations and identifying its vectors and pathogens through analysis of ticks. METHOD Epidemiological investigations, including review of the retrospective medical records and patient interviews, were conducted in two cases that occurred in 2012....

A 24year old man presented to the emergency department with complain acute onset pain abdomen for 3days. The pain started in the umbilical region, later became diffuse. There was no history of fever, vomiting or irregular bladder and bowel habits. He consulted twice in the nearby hospital for pain abdomen. Routine blood investigation, including ultrasonography of the abdomen and pelvis was also...

Vol. 26 No. 1, 2014 127 Received November 22, 2012, Revised February 13, 2013, Accepted for publication March 12, 2013 Corresponding author: Sang Hyun Cho, Department of Dermatology, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, 56 Dongsu-ro, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon 403-720, Korea. Tel: 82-32-280-5102, Fax: 82-32-506-9514, E-mail: [email protected] This is...

BACKGROUND The tick infestation of the lower lid is a quite rare condition. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 40 years old caucasian female who presented with the above condition after camping in the Norfolk area, UK. CONCLUSION Tick bite can be responsible for many diseases the most common being Lyme disease which can affect the eyes in several ways. It is still debatable whether or ...

Tick bite is known as a possible cause of some infectious diseases such as Lyme disease, spotted fever and related illnesses. The reaction to a tick bite may persist for several months to several years and can sometimes cause histopathological granuloma. The long-term reaction to salivary extracts from the tick could be responsible for development of granuloma in our patient. We recommended com...

The antibody responses of subjects who presented with a definite Ixodes scapularis (Say) tick bite were measured to determine the utility of the antibody response against recombinant tick calreticulin (rTC) as a biologic marker of tick exposure. Subjects bitten by I. scapularis evidenced an increase in anti-rTC antibody levels between visit 1 and visit 2 from 24.3 to 27.1 ng/microl serum (n = 8...

Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is transmitted to humans from the bite of Ixodes spp. ticks. During the borrelial tick-to-mammal life cycle, B. burgdorferi must adapt to many environmental changes by regulating several genes, including bba64. Our laboratory recently demonstrated that the bba64 gene product is necessary for mouse infectivity when B. burgdorferi is ...

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Scalp eschar and neck lymphadenopathy after tick bite (SENLAT) is an emerging increasingly common syndrome, primarily described in Europe...