... examination revealed a highly elevated titer of IgG antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes . Our case report illustrates the wide range of clinical features of B. burgdorferi - induced lymphadenosis benigna cutis (LABC) demonstrating multiple nodules on the lower leg. LABC should thus...

... Words. Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans Localized scleroderma Morphea Borrelia burgdorferi Tick-borne diseases Abstract. A patient developed successively acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) and localized scleroderma. ACA was demonstrated to be a tick-borne disease, whereas mor­ phea...

...J. Schmidli; J. Meyer Borrelia burgdorferi , the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, was the topic of an international conference in Stockholm which assembled 500 scientists from all over the world. About 300 oral and poster presentations revealed many new details on the complex life history...

...D.E. Müller; P.H. Itin; S.A. Büchner; T. Rufli In a female patient with increasing redness of the hands and face, proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi were detected in a biopsy of the ear by DNA amplification. Although acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans has been documented to be caused by B...

.... Methods: In 50 patients, seroreactivity to different antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato was analyzed by a recombinant immunoblot test (IB) in consecutive serum samples from a minimum follow-up period of 1 year. Antigens in the IgG test were decorin-binding protein A, internal fragment of p41...

...P. Monari; C. Farisoglio; P.G. Calzavara Pinton An association between Borrelia burgdorferi with primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma (PCBCL) has long been suspected but just recently, thanks to a polymerase chain reaction technique, it had been possible to demonstrate B. burgdorferi- specific DNA...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Eosinophilic fasciitis PUVA therapy Shulman syndrome Borrelia burgdorferi Scleroderma Fasciitis-panniculitis...

... retrospectively selected out of 257 consecutive patients with EM. The diagnosis of mini EM rested on the cultivation of Borrelia burgdorferi. Species and subtype analysis of culture isolates was performed using outer surface protein A (OspA) polymerase chain reaction followed by restriction fragment length...

.... Erythema migrans Lyme borreliosis Penicillin Borrelia burgdorferi Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne infection in Europe and the USA [ 1 ]. Patients with the early cutaneous manifestation of erythema migrans (EM) are treated with antibiotics to cure the cutaneous lesion...

... of Lyme borreliosis. Zentralbl Bakteriol 1989;18:172–177. 10. Granter SR, Barnhill RL, Hewins ME, Duray PH: Identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in diffuse fasciitis with peripheral eosinophilia: Borrelial fasciitis. JAMA 1994;272:1283–1285. 11. Hashimoto Y, Takahashi H, Matsuo S, Hirai K...

...Günther F.L. Hofbauer; Birgit Kessler; Werner Kempf; Frank O. Nestle; Günter Burg; Reinhard Dummer Borrelia burgdorferi infection has been implicated in cutaneous B-cell lymphoma. We report a case of multilesional primary cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma without extracutaneous spread in a patient...

... 2 weeks before. Serum anti- Borrelia burgdorferi antibody was positive by Western blot analysis, and B. burgdorferi was isolated from the skin lesion. Serum amylase level was elevated with predominant salivary gland isozyme; the level returned to normal within 3 weeks following penicillin...