Borrelia-like spirochetes recovered from ticks and small mammals collected in the Atlantic Forest Reserve, Cotia county, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Abel, Ísis; Marzagão, G.; Yoshinari, Natalino Hajime; Schumaker, Teresinha Tizu Sato

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762000000500006

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“…B. burgdorferi had never been isolated or cultured in BSK, even when many enriched media were employed to culture biological materials from patients 12,38 , potential reservoir animals 1 or ticks collected at risk areas 6 .…”

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Profile of patients with Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome admitted at "Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas"

Gouveia

Alves

Mantovani

et al. 2010

Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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SUMMARYThe aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological, clinical and laboratorial profile of patients with Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome (BYS), who underwent internment at the Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas in São Paulo, Brazil, during the period from July 1990 to July 2006. BYS is a new Brazilian tick-borne disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato microorganisms that resembles features of Lyme disease (LD), except for its epidemiological, clinical and laboratorial particularities. From 60 patients' records with positive serology to B. burgdorferi done by ELISA and Western-blotting methods, 19 cases were diagnosed as having BYS, according to criteria adopted at LIM-17 HCFMUSP, the Brazilian Reference Laboratory for the research of BYS. The other 41 remaining patients displayed miscellaneous infections or auto-immune processes. The beginning of symptoms in BYS group varied from one day to six years, from the onset of the disease. Four of 19 patients were included in acute disease stage, and 15 in latent. General unspecific symptoms were identified in almost all cases, with high frequencies of fever (78.9%) and lymphadenomegaly (36.8%). Six patients had skin lesions (31.5%); six arthralgia or arthritis (31.5%) and eight neurological symptoms (42%). Interestingly, two patients showed antibodies directed to B. burgdorferi exclusively in cerebrospinal fluid. Since BYS is a new emergent Brazilian zoonosis and its diagnosis is sometimes complex, all the new knowledge about BYS must be scattered to Brazilian Medical specialists, aiming to teach them how to diagnose this amazing tick-borne disease and to avoid its progression to chronic irreversible sequels.

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Profile of patients with Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome admitted at "Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas"

Gouveia

Alves

Mantovani

et al. 2010

Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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“…strains taking into account its limitation for some strains in Latin-American and Caribbean countries with poorlyresourced laboratories, although there are not much published papers about the presence of Borrelia genospecies in this region, only serological evidences of Lyme disease have been published (Ciceroni et al 1994, Abel et al 2000, Rodríguez et al 2004. …”

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Evaluation of a modified culture medium for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

Rodríguez

Lienhard

Gern

et al. 2007

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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“…The etiological agent is different in Brazil, and not isolated yet (Abel et al 2000). The probable ticks transmitters of disease belong to the genus Ixodes and Amblyomma, the first implicated for keeping infection among wild animals, and the latter for promoting human disease (Barros-Battesti et al 1995, 2000.…”

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Coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne agents of babesiosis and Lyme borreliosis in patients from Cotia county, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Yoshinari

Abrão

Bonoldi

et al. 2003

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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Borrelia-like spirochetes recovered from ticks and small mammals collected in the Atlantic Forest Reserve, Cotia county, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Cited by 31 publications

References 4 publications

Profile of patients with Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome admitted at "Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas"

Profile of patients with Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome admitted at "Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas"

Evaluation of a modified culture medium for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

Coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne agents of babesiosis and Lyme borreliosis in patients from Cotia county, State of São Paulo, Brazil

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