20.10.2012, 18:12
Eur Neurol. 1995;35(2):113-7.
Seronegative chronic relapsing neuroborreliosis
Lawrence C, Lipton RB, Lowy FD, Coyle PK.
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y., USA.
Abstract
We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.
[From the article:] “Before her 6th hospital admission this patient had received four courses of ceftriaxone, one of cefotaxime and two of doxycycline (of 19 and 8 weeks). Increasing right hemiparesis and dyspnea with right intercostal muscle weakness prompted her 6th admission to the hospital. Following intravenous ceftriaxone for 2 weeks, it was decided to place the patient on long-term therapy [22 months] with clarithromycin. Although there is no information on the penetration of clarithromycin into the CNS, it achieves high concentrations within macrophages [18] a known sanctuary for the Bb spirochete [19]. The clinical response to clarithromycin in this patient has now been sustained for over 22 months.”
“...Survival of Bb in humans despite aggressive antibiotic therapy has been previously reported [2,22]. We believe this to be an example of a patient with chronic relapsing Bb infection. It is important to evaluate unusual patients like this thoroughly in order to determine the effectiveness of prolonged oral antibiotics as a therapeutic option.”
PMID: 7796837 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837
Seronegative chronic relapsing neuroborreliosis
Lawrence C, Lipton RB, Lowy FD, Coyle PK.
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y., USA.
Abstract
We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.
[From the article:] “Before her 6th hospital admission this patient had received four courses of ceftriaxone, one of cefotaxime and two of doxycycline (of 19 and 8 weeks). Increasing right hemiparesis and dyspnea with right intercostal muscle weakness prompted her 6th admission to the hospital. Following intravenous ceftriaxone for 2 weeks, it was decided to place the patient on long-term therapy [22 months] with clarithromycin. Although there is no information on the penetration of clarithromycin into the CNS, it achieves high concentrations within macrophages [18] a known sanctuary for the Bb spirochete [19]. The clinical response to clarithromycin in this patient has now been sustained for over 22 months.”
“...Survival of Bb in humans despite aggressive antibiotic therapy has been previously reported [2,22]. We believe this to be an example of a patient with chronic relapsing Bb infection. It is important to evaluate unusual patients like this thoroughly in order to determine the effectiveness of prolonged oral antibiotics as a therapeutic option.”
PMID: 7796837 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837
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