Lyme Disease Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Deficits: Report of a Case

Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted multisystem inflammatory disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. With more than 25,000 CDC reported cases annually, it has become the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. We report a case of 38-year-old man with Lyme disease present...

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Autores principales: Chaturvedi, Abhishek, Baker, Keith, Jeanmonod, Donald, Jeanmonod, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27635267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7218906
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author Chaturvedi, Abhishek
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description Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted multisystem inflammatory disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. With more than 25,000 CDC reported cases annually, it has become the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. We report a case of 38-year-old man with Lyme disease presenting with simultaneous palsy of 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th cranial nerves.
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spelling pubmed-50112002016-09-15 Lyme Disease Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Deficits: Report of a Case Chaturvedi, Abhishek Baker, Keith Jeanmonod, Donald Jeanmonod, Rebecca Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted multisystem inflammatory disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. With more than 25,000 CDC reported cases annually, it has become the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. We report a case of 38-year-old man with Lyme disease presenting with simultaneous palsy of 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th cranial nerves. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5011200/ /pubmed/27635267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7218906 Text en Copyright © 2016 Abhishek Chaturvedi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lyme Disease Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Deficits: Report of a Case
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title_fullStr Lyme Disease Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Deficits: Report of a Case
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title_short Lyme Disease Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Deficits: Report of a Case
title_sort lyme disease presenting with multiple cranial nerve deficits: report of a case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011200/
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