Lyme disease--a relative new entity

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[Lyme disease--a relative new entity]

[Article in Romanian]

Tsirmpas MD, Tsirmpas D.

Clinica de Oftalmologie, Spitalul Clinic de Urgenta, Militar
Central, Bucuresti.

PURPOSE: To bring in the attention of the medical personel a
relativily new discovered disease with serious consequences, that is
often mistaken with a grate multitude of miscellaneous sindromes. Also
we want to hightline that it is not a rare disease taken into account
its endemicity in Europe and consequently in Romania.
SUMMARY: Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a
spirochete
named "Borrelia Burgdorferi" transmited to humans by a minuscle tick.
It
is a multisistemic illness with occular involvement as well. The
disease
mimics other pathologic conditions and because of this goes frequently
undiagnosed and consequently untreated. Its occular involvement may
vary
from a mild conjuctivitis to uveitis, optic neuritis and sometimes lead

to blindness. The disease is endemic in Romania. If it is correctly
diagnosed it can be succesfully treated with specific antibiotics
administrated p.o or i.v.

PMID: 16773934 [PubMed - in process]

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