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. 2007 Oct;13(10):1556-8.
doi: 10.3201/eid1310.060630.

Borrelia burgdorferi infection and cutaneous Lyme disease, Mexico

Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez  1 , Javier Torres, Fortino Solórzano-Santos, Sylvie de Martino, Dan Lipsker, Edmundo Velázquez, Guillermo Ramon, Muñoz Onofre, Benoit Jaulhac
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Borrelia burgdorferi infection and cutaneous Lyme disease, Mexico

Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Oct.

Abstract

Four patients who had received tick bites while visiting forests in Mexico had skin lesions that met the case definition of erythema migrans, or borrelial lymphocytoma. Clinical diagnosis was supported with histologic, serologic, and molecular tests. This study suggests the Borrelia burgdorferi infection is in Mexico.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Western Blot (WB) immunoglobulin G results from cutaneous cases. A) WB with serum from patient 1, showing erythema migrans (arrow). B) WB with serum from patient 4, showing lymphocytoma (arrow); a strong positive and a weak positive control were included.
Figure 2
Figure 2
A case of lymphocytoma. A) Immunohistochemical image with anti-CD20 antibody showing a nodule with a dense B-lymphocytes infiltrate in the dermis; magnification ×100. B) Immunohistochemical image with anti-CD45 Ro antibody showing T-lymphocytes at the periphery of a nodule; magnification ×250.
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