<i>Borrelia miyamotoi</i> Meningoencephalitis in an Immunocompetent Patient-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Borrelia miyamotoi Meningoencephalitis in an Immunocompetent Patient

Published:2022-06-13 Issue:7 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2328-8957
Container-title:Open Forum Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Gandhi Shiv¹,Narasimhan Sukanya¹,Workineh Aster¹,Mamula Mark²,Yoon Jennifer¹,Krause Peter J³,Farhadian Shelli F¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

2. Section of Rheumatology, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

3. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

4. Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

Abstract

Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is an underdiagnosed cause of tick-borne illness in endemic regions and, in rare cases, causes neurological disease in immunocompetent patients. Here, we present a case of serologically confirmed Borrelia miyamotoi meningoencephalitis in an otherwise healthy patient who rapidly improved following initiation of antibiotic therapy.

Funder

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Oncology

Link

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofac295/44046774/ofac295.pdf

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