DAMAGE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM IN TICK-BITE BORRELIOSIS (LYME DISEASE) IN СHILDREN IN THE KIROV REGION

Abstract

During 1993—2016 there were treated 1255 children 9 months — 14 ages old with tick-bite infections in Kirov Infectious Clinical Hospital and 1214 children from them with the verified diagnosis of Lyme disease. Damage of nervous system was detected in 98 (8.1%) patients in the forms of serous meningitis, meningoencephalitis, polyneuropathies, neuropathies, disseminated encephalomyelitis, diencephalic syndrome with impaired thermal regulation. 45.9 % of cases were mixed-infection (tick-bite encephalitis and Lyme disease).

Keywords

• children
• neuroborreliosis
• tick-bite encephalitis
• mixed-infection
• meningitis
• meningoencephalitis
• polyneuropathies
• neuropathies
• disseminated encephalomyelitis
• reaction of indirect immunofluorescence
• elisa