Open AccessNeuroborreliose Tardia num Estudante em Programa Erasmus
Author(s) -
Fábio Videira Santos,
Ana Cipriano,
Miguel Araújo Abreu,
Carlos Andrade,
Rui SarmentoCastro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
acta médica portuguesa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1646-0758
pISSN - 0870-399X
DOI - 10.20344/amp.9938
Subject(s) - humanities , political science , art
Lyme disease is an endemic zoonosis, the most prevalent tick-transmitted infection in temperate areas of Europe, North America and Asia. It is a multisystemic disease with cutaneous, musculoskeletal, neurologic and cardiac manifestations, according to the stage of the disease. We describe a case of late neuroborreliosis in an Erasmus programme student living in Porto. We discuss the importance of the epidemiological suspicion, the clinical approach, the diagnostic criteria and the most adequate treatment.