Dutch first patient infected with new character bacteria
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The AMC in Amsterdam last year treated a patient who was hit with a variant of the Borelli bacteria that was found. Never before with a Dutch infected after a tick bite
The doctor, internist, infectious disease specialist at the AMC does Saturday report's treatment in scientific journal The Lancet.
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In the article the archbishop describes the case of a septuagenarian man with a variety of neurological symptoms, such as memory problems and an irregular gait, which deteriorated over the months. Before that he had been treated for cancer. Gradually it appeared that the man had been with sign.

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It is known that the bacterium Borelli-infected animals can pass, the causative agent of Lyme disease. However, a lime test gave a positive result.

Nevertheless, it was decided to treat it as if he had the disease the man. The patient recovered. "It was remarkable how well the treatment would be successful", says archbishop returned. "Why was that we understood later."

Archbishop recalled at one point an article about a patient from the U.S. with a similar story. That person turned out a different type of bacterium, to have. The Dutch patient cerebrospinal fluid was stored in it and the conscious variant was indeed found.




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