From studies that have accompanied cases of this disease in
the country it’s possible to identify that epidemiological, clinical and
laboratories aspects are different from cases of Lyme disease recorded in the
United States and Eurasia, the Brazilian Lyme borreliosis has been called
Lyme-like disease or Syndrome Baggio-Yoshinari.
The etiological agent causer of this disease has not yet been
detected (isolation and molecular characterization) in human samples from the cases
described in the country and a portion of the medical and scientific community
questions the occurrence of the disease in the Brazilian territory.
In order to increase the knowledge about Lyme-like
borreliosis in Brazil, we analyzed the records included in the Gerenciador deAmbiente Laboratorial (GAL), which is the information system that collects the
data on the requests for laboratory diagnostic tests in the scope of the
Brazilian Health System.
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