EUROPEAN-UNION CONCERTED ACTION ON RISK ASSESSMENT IN LYME BORRELIOSIS - CLINICAL CASE DEFINITIONS FOR LYME BORRELIOSIS

The EU Concerted Action on Risk Assessment in Lyme Borreliosis (EUCALB ) has consulted other clinicians and scientists in Europe to produce c ase definitions of the principal manifestations of European Lyme borre liosis. These case definitions will not only be helpful in supporting its own research interests, but are also intended to assist other clin icians in appropriate management and to support further studies aimed at determining the full clinical spectrum of the disease. The case def initions were achieved after a series of meetings organised by EUCALB with other expert clinicians and scientists from twelve European count ries. The definitions and the diagnostic criteria presented thus repre sent the consensus reached at these meetings. The proposed case defini tions consider skin, nervous system, cardiac and musculoskeletal prese ntations and the role of laboratory investigation in supporting diagno sis.