Publications

lyme disease in rio de janeiro, brazil.	five patients living in rio de janeiro, brazil, were found to have lyme disease. these are among the first known cases in south america.	1991	1938055
brazilian borreliosis with special emphasis on humans and horses.	borreliosis caused by borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is a cosmopolitan zoonosis studied worldwide; it is called lyme disease in many countries of the northern hemisphere and lyme-like or baggio-yoshinari syndrome in brazil. however, despite the increasing number of suspect cases, this disease is still neglected in brazil by the medical and veterinary communities. brazilian lyme-like borreliosis likely involves capybaras as reservoirs and amblyomma and rhipicephalus ticks as vectors. thus, domes ...	2016	27769883