Isolation and species typing of Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes from UK patients with erythema migrans

Authors
Robertson, J Murdoch, S Foster, L Green, S
Citation
J. Robertson et al., Isolation and species typing of Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes from UK patients with erythema migrans, EUR J EPID, 15(5), 1999, pp. 499-500
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
ISSN journal
03932990 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
5
Year of publication
1999
Pages
499 - 500
Database
ISI
SICI code
0393-2990(199905)15:5<499:IASTOL>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Skin biopsies taken from UK cases of erythema migrans rash were cultured fo r Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Reverse line blotting was used to type t he infecting genospecies in PCR-positive cultures and biopsies. B. garinii or B. afzelii was identified in 56% (5/9) of biopsies/cultures tested. All patients were tested by conventional serology. PCR confirmed infection in t wo patients where serological testing failed to detect antibody.