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Case Reports
. 2009 Mar 15;48(6):756-9.
doi: 10.1086/597041.

Five cases of paralytic strabismus as a rare feature of lyme disease

Arnaud Sauer  1 , Yves Hansmann, Benoît Jaulhac, Tristan Bourcier, Claude Speeg-Schatz
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Case Reports

Five cases of paralytic strabismus as a rare feature of lyme disease

Arnaud Sauer et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Lyme borreliosis is the most common human tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. The prevalence of Lyme borreliosis is estimated to be 20-100 cases per 100,000 persons in the United States and 100-155 cases per 100,000 persons in Europe [ 1 , 2 ]. It is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato [ 2 , 3 ]. The course of clinical manifestations is thought to occur in 3 stages: early, disseminated, and chronic [ 2 , 4 ]. Lyme borreliosis can cause a variety of ocular manifestations, and the frequency of these manifestations among cases of Lyme disease involving systemic manifestations is approximately 1% [ 5 ].

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