Significados de erythema migrans en inglés

Early Lyme disease was defined by the presence of erythema migrans.

Patients received standard courses of antibiotics for erythema migrans.

No single diagnostic modality is suitable for detection of B. burgdorferi in every patient with erythema migrans.

Few patients in our study had erythema migrans: these patients are usually treated in a general medicine setting.

Our data show that repeat episodes of erythema migrans in appropriately treated patients were due to reinfection and not relapse.

The symptoms often begin with a raised bull's eye type rash on the skin known as erythema migrans (EM).

Conclusions: None of the 22 paired consecutive episodes of erythema migrans were associated with the same strain of B. burgdorferi on culture.

This observation could help contribute to a better understanding of the early steps of Borrelia invasion and erythema migrans formation after tick bite.

We used molecular typing of Borrelia burgdorferi isolates obtained from patients with culture-confirmed episodes of erythema migrans to distinguish between relapse and reinfection.

The results of this study demonstrate that direct detection methods such as PCR and culture are highly sensitive in untreated adult patients with erythema migrans.

In the present study, we compared 6 diagnostic modalities in 47 adult patients who had a clinical diagnosis of erythema migrans.

Blood culture was significantly more likely to be positive in patients with multiple erythema migrans skin lesions compared to those with a single lesion (P=0.001).