Lyme disease--the great imitator.

S. Savic-Jevdjenic, Ž. Grgić, B. Vidić, A. Petrović
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Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis can occur in domestic animals and in people, with no characteristic symptoms. That is why Lyme disease is often diagnosed and treated as some other disease. Clinical symptoms of this disease are not specific and they can look like a number of different diseases, which is why the disease is called - the great imitator. The reservoirs of the disease are ticks Ixodes ricinus. During the research from 2005 to 2007 it was established that the prevalence with Lyme borreliosis exists within the tick population. The objective of this paper is a survey of the presence of Lyme disease in different populations of different animal species (horses, cattle, sheep and dogs) in the region where the infection of ticks with Borrelia burgdorferi was established in the percentage of 25-28%. - The methods used were the ones for the determination of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks, with a dark field microscopy, and also the presence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi was determinated with a complement fixation reaction, in the blood sera of horses, sheep, cattle and dogs. As the result it was found that the cause of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi is constantly present within the tick population. In examined horses and cattle the presence of antibodies against B. burgdorferi was not found, while in sheep and dogs, the presence of antibodies was found. Any seropositive animal, and also an infected tick, represents a danger for the human population and also for other animals, which are in the surrounding. Lyme disease is usually not mortal, but it can create a lot of problems leading to the decrease of production in domestic animals or an illness with clinical symptoms in humans, horses and dogs.
莱姆病——伟大的模仿者。
莱姆病或莱姆氏疏螺旋体病可发生在家畜和人身上,无特征性症状。这就是为什么莱姆病经常被当作其他疾病来诊断和治疗。这种疾病的临床症状并不特殊,它们可能看起来像许多不同的疾病,这就是为什么这种疾病被称为“大模仿者”。这种疾病的宿主是蜱、蓖麻伊蚊。在2005年至2007年的研究中,确定了蜱虫种群中存在莱姆病的流行。本文的目的是调查在蜱感染伯氏疏螺旋体的比例为25-28%的地区,不同动物物种(马、牛、羊和狗)的不同种群中莱姆病的存在。-使用的方法是用暗场显微镜测定蜱虫中的伯氏疏螺旋体,以及用补体固定反应测定马、羊、牛和狗的血清中伯氏疏螺旋体抗体的存在。结果发现,导致莱姆病的伯氏疏螺旋体一直存在于蜱虫种群中。在被检查的马和牛中未发现针对伯氏疏螺旋体的抗体,而在羊和狗中发现了抗体。任何血清呈阳性的动物,以及受感染的蜱虫,都对人类和周围的其他动物构成危险。莱姆病通常不会致命,但它会造成很多问题,导致家畜产量下降,或者在人类、马和狗身上出现临床症状。
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