| serological evidence of lyme borreliosis in africa: results from studies in dar es salaam, tanzania. | investigations were performed on sera from blood donors, pregnant women, patients with polyarthritis and from patients with clinical suspicion of syphilis in dar es salaam using borrelia burgdorferi (bb) flagellar antigen in a second generation elisa test from dako a/s, denmark, for specific igm or igg antibodies. an igm and or igg seropositivity rate of 30/100 (30%), 19/50 (7.2%), 10/20 (50%) and 11/20 (55%) was found in sera from the respective groups. these results compare with a bb seropreva ... | 1996 | 8991238 |