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9009681

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of our work was to determine the sero-prevalence of antibodies to B. burgdorferi in 300 patients living in Calabria, a region of southern Italy. The research of antibodies to B. burgdorferi was conducted by ELISA as a screening method and Western Blot as a confirmatory test. Out of the 300 patients we found a rate of positivity of 7.3% with ELISA and 4.5% with Western Blot. This data allows us to classify Calabria, among the regions where Lyme borreliosis is non-endemic and where sero-epidemiological research has been carried out on patients, as having a degree of positivity second to that of Campania (9.1%) and higher than Lombardy (3.2%) and Umbria (2.8%). Considering all the demographic and clinical data, only that of the higher IgG positivity of males over females is statistically significant.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0031-0808
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
167-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Determination of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in the serum of patients living in Calabria, southern Italy.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Microbiology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article