Clinical and serologic follow-up in patients with neuroborreliosis

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Treib, J [1 ]
Fernandez, A [1 ]
Haass, A [1 ]
Grauer, MT [1 ]
Holzer, G [1 ]
Woessner, R [1 ]
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[1] Univ Saarland, Dept Neurol, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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10.1212/WNL.51.5.1489
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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The authors performed a clinical and serologic follow-up study after 4.2 +/- 1.2 years in 44 patients with clinical signs of neuroborreliosis and specific intrathecal antibody production. All patients had been treated with ceftriaxone 2 g/day for 10 days. Although neurologic deficits decreased significantly, more than half the patients had unspecific complaints resembling a chronic fatigue syndrome and showed persisting positive immunoglobulin M serum titers for Borrelia in the Western blot analysis.
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