Borrelia burgdorferi Infection and Cutaneous Lyme Disease, Mexico

Abstract

Four patients who had received tick bites while visiting forests in Mexico had skin lesions that met the case definition of erythema migrans, or borrelial lymphocytoma. Clinical diagnosis was supported with histologic, serologic, and molecular tests. This study suggests the Borrelia burgdorferi infection is in Mexico.

Keywords

• Lyme borreliosis
• lymphocytoma
• erythema migrans
• Borrelia burgdorferi
• dispatch
• Mexico