| borrelia burgdorferi "sensu lato" in brazil: occurrence confirmed by immunohistochemistry and focus floating microscopy. | in the present study, we report the occurrence of lyme's borreliosis in patients from the brazilian amazon region. borreliosis was investigated by immunohistochemistry and focus floating microscopy for borrelia burgdorferi in skin biopsy samples from 22 patients with both clinical and histopathology evidences compatible with erythema migrans. spirochetes were detected by specific immunohistochemistry and focus floating microscopy for b. burgdorferi in samples from five patients. clinical cure of ... | 2010 | 20211144 |
| antibody reactivity to borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto antigens in patients from the brazilian amazon region with skin diseases not related to lyme disease. | in the present study, we report the occurrence of borreliosis in patients from the brazilian amazonic region. nineteen (7.2%) out of 270 dermatological patients with different skin diseases (no one with clinical lyme disease), tested positive by elisa for borrelia burgdorferi. serum samples from 15 out of the 19 elisa-positive patients were further evaluated by western blot. presence of borrelia burgdorferi specific igg was confirmed in eight (53.3%) out of the 15 patients. all eight patients wi ... | 2010 | 20534091 |
| presence of borrelia burgdorferi "sensu lato" in patients with morphea from the amazonic region in brazil. | in the present study, borrelia spirochetes were found in four (26.6%) out of 15 patients with atrophoderma of pasini and pierini (iapp) and lichen sclerosis et atrophicans (lsa) from the brazilian amazon region. | 2011 | 22004491 |