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- Title
SEROPREVALENCIA de Borrelia burgdorferi en Ensenada, Baja California, México.
- Authors
Field Cortázares, Jorge; Tinoco Gracia, Luis; Escárcega Ávila, Angélica María; López Valencia, Gilberto; Barreras Serrano, Alberto; Hori Oshima, Sawako; Medina Basulto, Gerardo Enrique; Tamayo Sosa, Alma Rossana; Tamez González, Roberto; Coria Lorenzo, José de Jesús; García Hernández, Maricela; Castro Corona, María de los Ángeles
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Lyme disease is a zoonotic disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi; This bacterium is transmitted by the bite of the tick, mainly of the genus Ixodes and, secondarily, Amblyommay and Dermacentor. The symptoms are migrant erythema, fatigue, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, fever, adenopathy, stiff neck and lymphocytic meningitis. There are no previous studies of the existence of borreliosis in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the seroprevalence of Lyme disease through the indirect immunofluorescence test (IFI) in humans treated in three clinical analysis laboratories in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present cross-sectional study was carried out in the period between October 1, 2017 and September 30, 2018. 117 human blood samples were collected in Ensenada city, for the diagnosis of borreliosis, implemented the IFI technique with Borrelia burgdorferi IgG IFA © kit from FULLER Laboratories, which detects IgG antibodies against this bacterium. RESULTS: The seroprevalence of borreliosis was 10.2% (95%; CI: 4.7-15.7) in humans aged one to 75 years, of which seven were women and five men. CONCLUSIONS: The seroprevalence was greater than that reported in other parts of the country, so it must be included in the differential diagnoses of the health sector. In Ensenada city there are no records or studies that identify any vector as the aforementioned, however, Rhipicephalus sanguineuses is the only possible vector registered in the urban area of northern Mexico, since no other species of ticks have been found in dogs.
- Publication
Revista de Enfermedades Infecciosas en Pediatría, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 130, p1586
- ISSN
1405-0749
- Publication type
Article