Abstract

Do Antiborrelial Antibodies Suggest Lyme Disease in Cuba?

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  • During 1998, serum samples from 14 persons who lived in the village Las Terrazas and had epidemiologic and clinical evidence of Lyme disease, were studied in our laboratory

  • We used an immunoglobulin (Ig) G and IgM–enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) kit (Enzygnost Borreliosis, Behring, Marburg, Germany), in which each strip contained wells coated with inactivated borrelial antigen, to detect specific antibodies to B. burgdorferi complex

  • We investigated the clinical manifestations of the patients with positive Western blotting

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Introduction

Infections and antibiotic resistance in nursing homes. 7. Eckert C, Gautier V, Saladin-Allard M, Hidri N, Verdet C, Ould-Hocine Z, et al Dissemination of CTX-M-Type beta-lactamases among clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae in Paris, France. Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli: “the other bad E. coli.” J Lab Clin Med. 2002;139: 155–62. It represents a considerable emerging infectious disease threat because of its consequences to human health and the difficulties in preventing and controlling it [2,3].

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