Successful cultivation of spirochetes from skin lesions of patients with erythema chronicum migrans Afzelius and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
| Autor: | Eva Åsbrink, Anders Hovmark |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology General Immunology and Microbiology Low oxygen Erythema Disease duration Acrodermatitis General Medicine Spirochaetales Infections Biology medicine.disease Microbiology Dermatology Ticks Spirochaetales medicine Erythema chronicum migrans Humans Arachnid Vectors medicine.symptom Skin lesion Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans |
| Zdroj: | Acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica. Section B, Microbiology. 93(2) |
| ISSN: | 0108-0180 |
| Popis: | Spirochetes could be cultivated from 9 out of 13 skin biopsies from patients with erythema chronicum migrans Afzelius (ECMA) and from 2 out of 5 biopsies from patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) by using a newly modified serumless Kelly's medium. The different spirochete strains grew best at a low oxygen tension. Attempts to grow spirochetes from blood and cerebrospinal fluid failed. The cultivation of spirochetes from secondary ECMA lesions favours the presumption that a spirochetemia may occur in ECMA. The isolation of spirochetes from an ACA patient who had a disease duration of greater than 10 years proves that the spirochetes may survive in the human body for a considerable time. |
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