%0 Journal Article
%T Enfermedad de Lyme aguda en Costa Rica: Descripci¨®n del primer caso aut¨®ctono
%A Villalobos-Z¨²£¿iga
%A Manuel-Antonio
%A Somogyi
%A Teresita
%J Acta M¨¦dica Costarricense
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X 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.
%K lyme disease
%K costa rica.
%U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-60022012000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en