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- Title
CME: Borrelien-Manifestationen am Bewegungsapparat.
- Authors
Fiore, Vittorio; Rakusa, Julia; Fehr, Thomas; Wick, Jürg
- Abstract
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in Switzerland and Lyme arthritis the most prevalent manifestation of late-stage Lyme disease. It presents as a monoarthitis or oligoarthritis in large joints, often involving the knee. Such a clinical presentation, together with positive Lyme serologies or polymerase chain reactions from synovial fluid/tissue, is considered diagnostic. If there is no tick bite or erythema migrans in the patient's history the diagnosis can be challenging due to the many differential diagnoses. The initial treatment is a prolonged course of oral antibiotics.
- Publication
Praxis (16618157), 2021, Vol 110, Issue 5, p231
- ISSN
1661-8157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1024/1661-8157/a003665