Prevalence of IgG Antibodies against Borrelia Burgdorferi S.L. and Ehrlichia Phagocytophila in Sera of Patients Presenting Symptoms of Lyme Disease in a Central Region of Italy
| Autor: | Rosa Sessa, Daniela Santapaola, D. Speziale, Mauro Nicoletti, Iolanda Santino, M. Del Piano, Guido Fadda, R. Grillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Ixodes ricinus
animal diseases Immunology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Lyme disease parasitic diseases Immunology and Allergy Medicine Seroprevalence Borrelia burgdorferi Pharmacology biology Transmission (medicine) business.industry Ehrlichia bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology LYME 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis biology.protein Antibody business 030215 immunology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology. 15:245-248 |
| ISSN: | 2058-7384 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/039463200201500313 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence (seroprevalence) of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi and Ehrlichia phagocytophila among patients resident in Lazio, a region of central Italy. Of a sample of 1,050 patients, which presented clinical manifestations related to Lyme disease, 34 (3.2%) were Borrelia-seropositive (Lyme index value ≥ 1.2). The sera of 25 out of the 34 patients that were Borrelia-positive were also analysed for the presence of antibodies against E. phagocytophila and 3 (12%) were found Ehrlichia-positive (titres >1:64). No Ehrlichia-positive samples were found among sera of 250 Borrelia-negative patients. Since both B. burgdorferi s.l. and Ehrlichia species share the same tick vector ( Ixodes ricinus), our results indicate that concurrent transmission of these microbial pathogens might have been occurred among the patients included in this study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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