Gender disparity between cutaneous and non-cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 8 (2013), Heft 5, S. e64110
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Cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Europe include erythema migrans (EM) and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA); the most common non-cutaneous manifestations are Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and Lyme arthritis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the gender distribution of patients with these clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis. Data on gender were obtained from the clinical records of patients with Lyme borreliosis aged ≥15 years who had been evaluated at the University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Among 10,539 patients diagnosed with EM, 6,245 (59.3%) were female and among 506 ACA patients 347 (68.6%) were female. In contrast, among the 60 patients with Lyme arthritis only 15 (25%) were female (p
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Gender disparity between cutaneous and non-cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
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| Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Strle, Franc ; Gary P Wormser ; Mead, Paul ; Dhaduvai, Kanthi ; Michael V Longo ; Adenikinju, Omosalewa ; Soman, Sandeep ; Tefera, Yodit ; Maraspin, Vera ; Lotrič-Furlan, Stanka ; Ogrinc, Katarina ; Cimperman, Jože ; Ružić-Sabljić, Eva ; Stupica, Daša |
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| Zeitschrift: | PLoS ONE, Jg. 8 (2013), Heft 5, S. e64110 |
| Veröffentlichung: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013 |
| Medientyp: | academicJournal |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 (print) |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0064110 |
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