Abstract

VILLALOBOS-ZUNIGA, Manuel-Antonio  and  SOMOGYI, Teresita. Acute Lyme Disease in Costa Rica: Description of the First Autochthonous Case. Acta méd. costarric [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.1, pp.55-58. ISSN 0001-6002.

This is the case of a 44-year-old patient, who lives in Santa Teresa, Puntarenas; with acute onset of fever, chills, severe arthralgias and malaise, 15 days after a tick bite. The indirect fluorescent antibody test for Lyme was positive and the patient improved with doxycicline for 14 days.Other infectious and noninfectious diseases were ruled out; we consider this case as the first autochtonous case of Lyme disease in Costa Rica.

Keywords : Lyme disease; Costa Rica.

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