PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODIES TO BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI, BORRELIA-PARKERI AND BORRELIA-TURICATAE IN HUMAN-SETTLEMENTS OF THE CORDILLERA PROVINCE, BOLIVIA

Authors
CICERONI L BARTOLONI A GUGLIELMETTI P PARADISI F BARAHONA HG ROSELLI M CIARROCCHI S CACCIAPOUTTI B
Citation
L. Ciceroni et al., PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODIES TO BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI, BORRELIA-PARKERI AND BORRELIA-TURICATAE IN HUMAN-SETTLEMENTS OF THE CORDILLERA PROVINCE, BOLIVIA, Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 97(1), 1994, pp. 13-17
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00225304
Volume
97
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
13 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-5304(1994)97:1<13:POATBB>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A seroepidemiological study to determine the prevalence of human Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne relapsing fever was carried out in three co mmunities (Camiri, Boyuibe and Gutierrez) of the Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department, south-eastern Bolivia. Anti-B. burgdorferi, ant i-B. turicatae and anti-B. parkeri antibodies, tested by the indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA), were detected in 10.8, 16.1 and 8.2% of the serum samples tested, and confirmed by IFA-ABS in 1.3, 1.3 and 1. 0%, respectively. This is the first report of the presence of Lyme bor reliosis and tick-borne relapsing fever in Bolivia. For Lyme borrelios is these findings represent a further datum to support its existence i n South America.