Arthritis and Diagnostics in Lyme Disease

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Raluchukwu Attah¹  StevenE. Schutzer²  Reena Khianey³  Eugenio Capitle³  JavierA. Quintero⁴ 

[1] Department of Internal Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA;Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA;Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA;Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA;

关键词: Lyme disease;    Lyme arthritis;    Borrelia burgdorferi;    inflammatory arthritis;    antibiotic refractory arthritis;    disease modifying antirheumatic drugs;   

DOI  :  10.3390/tropicalmed6010018

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The diagnosis of Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is clinical but frequently supported by laboratory tests. Lyme arthritis is now less frequently seen than at the time of its discovery. However, it still occurs, and it is important to recognize this, the differential diagnoses, and how laboratory tests can be useful and their limitations. The most frequently used diagnostic tests are antibody based. However, antibody testing still suffers from many drawbacks and is only an indirect measure of exposure. In contrast, evolving direct diagnostic methods can indicate active infection.

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