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Abstracts

Cyst

An in vitro study of the susceptibility of mobile and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to metronidazole
Formation and cultivation of Borrelia burgdorferi spheroplast-L-form variants.
In vitro conversion of Borrelia burgdorferi to cystic forms in spinal fluid, and transformation to mobile spirochetes by incubation in BSK-H medium.

Tests

A limitation of 2-stage serological testing for Lyme disease: enzyme immunoassay and immunoblot assay are not independent tests
Comparative evaluation of two enzyme linked immunosorbent assay methods and three Western Blot methods for the diagnosis of culture-confirmed early Lyme borreliosis in Italy
Comparison of Western immunoblotting and the C6 Lyme antibody test for laboratory detection of Lyme disease
Diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis using enzyme immunoanalysis
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, immunofluorescent assay, and recombinant immunoblotting in the serodiagnosis of early Lyme borreliosis
Evaluation of fifteen commercially available serological tests for diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis.
Generalizability in two clinical trials of Lyme disease

Useful

Bilateral simultaneous facial paralysis--differential diagnosis and treatment options. A case report and review of literature.
C6 test as an indicator of therapy outcome for patients with localized or disseminated lyme borreliosis.
Comparison of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from specimens obtained simultaneously from two different sites of infection in individual patients.
Comparison of In Vitro Activities of Ketolides, Macrolides, and an Azalide against the Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi
Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA and complement membrane attack complex deposits in the sural nerve of a patient with chronic polyneuropathy and tertiary Lyme disease.
Differential Survival of Lyme Borreliosis Spirochetes in Ticks That Feed on Birds
Emergence of lyme arthritis after autologous chondrocyte transplantation.
Genetic diversity among Borrelia strains determined by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of the ospC gene and its association with invasiveness.
Global Change and Human Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases
Interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato with Epstein-Barr virus in lymphoblastoid cells
Is Lyme disease always poly microbial?--The jigsaw hypothesis.
Limited role of rodents as reservoirs of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ireland.
Lyme arthritis in a 12-year-old patient after a latency period of 5 years.
Panic attacks may reveal previously unsuspected chronic disseminated lyme disease
PCR-reverse line blot typing method underscores the genomic heterogeneity of Borrelia valaisiana species and suggests its potential involvement in Lyme disease.
Risk and prevention of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis and other tick-borne diseases.
Role of outer membrane architecture in immune evasion of Treponema and Borrelia burgdorferi.
Serodiagnosis of erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans by the Borrelia burgdorferi flagellum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
The differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: classification and clinical features of relapsing and progressive neurological syndromes.
Tick-borne infections in children: epidemiology, clinical manifestations and optimal management strategies
Vitamin A, E and C serum concentration of patients showing antibodies anti-Borrelia burgdorferi presence--non-symptomatic carriers
Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Associated with Transmission by Ticks

Other Lyme

An experimental study of the capacity of the rat mite Ornithonyssus bacoti (Hirst, 1913) to ingest, maintain and transmit Borrelia.
Analysis of the ability of spirochete species associated with relapsing fever, avian borreliosis, and epizootic bovine abortion to bind factor H and cleave c3b.
Analysis of weather effects on variability in Lyme disease incidence
Borrelia burgdorferi Binds to, Invades, and Colonizes Native Type I Collagen Lattices
Borreliosis associated with Lofgren's syndrome
Capillary feeding of specific dsRNA induces silencing of the isac gene in nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks.
Cardiac abnormalities of lyme borreliosis
Enzootic transmission of Babesia divergens among cottontail rabbits on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
Fluorine-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography studies of acute brainstem Lyme neutoborreliosis
Geographical and seasonal correlation of multiple sclerosis to sporadic schizophrenia
Immunogenicity of Borrelia burgdorferi arthritis-related protein.
Invasion of human skin fibroblasts by the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.
Isolation of Lyme Disease Borrelia from Puffins (Fratercula arctica) and Seabird Ticks (Ixodes uriae) on the Faeroe Islands
Lyme polyradiculoneuropathy presenting as increasing abdominal girth.
Lyme disease in the eighteenth century
Populations of Human T Lymphocytes That Traverse the Vascular Endothelium Stimulated by Borrelia burgdorferi Are Enriched with Cells That Secrete Gamma Interferon
Prevalence of infection with Francisella tularensis, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in rodents from an endemic focus of tularemia in Bulgaria
Risk of tick-borne bacterial diseases among workers of Roztocze National Park (south-eastern Poland).
Seroprevalence of anti-Borrelia antibodies among patients with confirmed sarcoidosis in a region of Japan where Lyme borreliosis is endemic.
Substantial Rise in the Prevalence of Lyme Borreliosis Spirochetes in a Region of Western Germany over a 10-Year Period
Survey of tickborne infections in Denmark
The affection of the population with Borrelia and the incidence of Lyme disease
The ecology of infectious disease: effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk.
Unusual features in the epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis

Other Tick Borne Diseases

An Unusual Case of Cat-Scratch Disease from Bartonella quintana Mimicking Inflammatory Breast Cancer in a 50-Year-Old Woman.
Anti-babesial compounds from Curcuma zedoaria
Bartonella henselae bacteraemia in domestic cats from Auckland.
Bartonellosis and a possible role of Ixodes ticks (family Ixodidae, order Parasitiformes) in the transmission of pathogenic Bartonella bacteria
Cat or dog ownership and seroprevalence of ehrlichiosis, QFever, and cat-scratch disease
Cervids as Babesiae hosts, Slovenia
Correlation between serum doxycycline concentrations and serologic evolution in patients with Coxiella burnetii endocarditis.
Delayed Clearance of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in CD4(+) T-Cell Knockout Mice dagger.
Disruption of a host-parasite system following the introduction of an exotic host species
Divergent interactions of Ehrlichia chaffeensis- and Anaplasma phagocytophilum-infected leukocytes with endothelial cell barriers.
Enzootic transmission of Anaplasma (Ehrlichia) bovis in Nantucket cottontail rabbits.
Fatal case of endocarditis associated with Bartonella henselae type I infection in a domestic cat
Fatal experimental transplacental Babesia gibsoni infections in dogs
Growth-inhibitory effect of heparin on Babesia parasites.
Molecular characterization of human pathogen Babesia EU1 in Ixodes ricinus ticks from Slovenia
Persistent Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection occurs in the absence of functional major histocompatibility complex class II genes.
Predominance of Ehrlichia ewingii in Missouri dogs.
Sequence and expression analysis of virB9 of the type IV secretion system of Ehrlichia canis strains in ticks, dogs, and cultured cells.
Survival Strategy of Obligately Intracellular Ehrlichia chaffeensis: Novel Modulation of Immune Response and Host Cell Cycles.
Aponomma hydrosauri, the reptile-associated tick reservoir of Rickettsia honei on Flinders Island, Australia.
Chronic polyneuropathies in Vest-Agder, Norway
Impact of mannose-binding lectin on susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Inability of a variant strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum to infect mice.
Mechanisms of variable p44 expression by Anaplasma phagocytophilum.

Other

Clinical characteristics of post-treatment reactions to ivermectin/albendazole for Wuchereria bancrofti in a region co-endemic for Mansonella perstans.
Dendritic cells phagocytose and are activated by Treponema pallidum.
Eosinophilic meningoencephalitis due to Toxocara canis: case report and review of the literature.
Predictors of response to treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome.
Protection against syphilis correlates with specificity of antibodies to the variable regions of Treponema pallidum repeat protein K.
Study of animal-borne infections in the mucosas of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and population-based controls.
The burden of chronic disease.
Ticks and politics
Transmission of Anaplasma marginale by Boophilus microplus: retention of vector competence in the absence of vector-pathogen interaction.