Premium
Culture‐positive Lyme borreliosis
Author(s) -
Hudson Bernard J,
Stewart Mark,
Lennox Virginia A,
Fukunaga Masahito,
Yabuki Mihe,
Macorison Heather,
KitchenerSmith Janet
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb141415.x
Subject(s) - borrelia garinii , lyme borreliosis , lyme disease , serology , borrelia , medicine , dermatology , antibiotics , biopsy , borrelia afzelii , immunology , pathology , borrelia burgdorferi , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibody
We report a case of Lyme borreliosis. Culture of skin biopsy was positive for Borrelia garinii , despite repeated prior treatment with antibiotics. The patient had travelled in Europe 17 months before the onset of symptoms, but the clinical details indicate that the organism could have been acquired in Australia. The results of conventional serological and histopathological tests were negative, despite an illness duration of at least two years.