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

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

This paper reports a case of coinfection caused by pathogens of Lyme disease and babesiosis in brothers. This was the first case of borreliosis in Brazil, acquired in Cotia County, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Both children had tick bite history, presented erythema migrans, fever, arthralgia, mialgia...

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Main Authors: Natalino Hajime Yoshinari, Milena Garcia Abrão, Virginia Lúcia Nazário Bonoldi, Cleber Oliveira Soares, Claudio Roberto Madruga, Alessandra Scofield, Carlos Luis Massard, Adivaldo Henrique da Fonseca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2003-04-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Subjects:
lyme borreliosis
lyme disease
spirochetosis
borreliosis
babesiosis
coinfection
tick-borne disease
Brazil
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