OCCURRENCE OF BORRELIA-GARINII OCULO-NEUROBORRELIOSIS IN JAPAN

Authors
YUKITAKE M KURODA Y KUROHARA K MATSUI M YASUDA A MATSUI Y OONO S KIMURA K ISOGAI E
Citation
M. Yukitake et al., OCCURRENCE OF BORRELIA-GARINII OCULO-NEUROBORRELIOSIS IN JAPAN, Journal of the neurological sciences, 142(1-2), 1996, pp. 160-161
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Journal of the neurological sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0022510X
Volume
142
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
160 - 161
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-510X(1996)142:1-2<160:OOBOIJ>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
We report a 64-year-old Japanese man with oculo-neuroborreliosis. His clinical features consisted of polyarthralgia, keratoconjunctivitis, c horioretinitis. optic neuritis, confusion, and polyradiculitis. Assay of antibodies to Borrelia species detected IgG-antibody to B. garinii in both serum and CSF. Progressive declining of serum IgG antibody tit er against Borrelia garinii, in parallel with clinical improvement, wa s observed after administration of ceftriaxone.