The Significance of Serum Anti-Borrelia Antibodies in the Diagnostic Work-Up of Uveitis
| Autor: | I Seppälä, A Karma, H. Mikkilä, Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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DNA Bacterial Male Adolescent Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Spirochaetaceae Polymerase Chain Reaction Eye Infections Bacterial Uveitis 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi Group Borrelia medicine Humans Prospective Studies Borrelia burgdorferi Child Aged Aged 80 and over Lyme Disease biology business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Eye infection bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Antibodies Bacterial Anti-Bacterial Agents 3. Good health LYME Ophthalmology Immunoglobulin M Immunoglobulin G Immunology 030221 ophthalmology & optometry biology.protein Female Antibody business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Ophthalmology. 7:251-255 |
| ISSN: | 1724-6016 1120-6721 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/112067219700700309 |
| Popis: | Purpose. To assess the utility of testing uveitis patients for anti-Borrelia antibodies in an area endemic for Lyme borreliosis. Methods. We examined 161 uveitis patients for serum antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi by Lyme ELISA. Antibodies were determined in patients with uveitis of unknown etiology and non-selectively from patients with an established diagnosis. Results. Concentrations of antibodies to B. burgdorferi were elevated in 26 uveitis patients (16.1%), with elevated IgG in 11 of them (6.8%). In four of these patients Lyme borreliosis was a highly suggestive cause of uveitis because of a history of tick bites, systemic symptoms, response to antibiotic therapy, and/or a positive polymerase chain reaction result. Other causes of uveitis were ruled out. All these patients had vitritis. Conclusions. Non-selective testing of uveitis patients for Lyme antibodies is not reasonable even in endemic areas. We recommend using the Borrelia antibody test only in cases of uveitis of unknown cause, especially in patients with vitritis or other symptoms of Lyme borreliosis. |
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