LYME DISEASE CASE STUDY

Lyme disease Case Study



Lyme disease Case Study

Introduction

The patient in this case followed a classic neurological Lyme disease course. She did not present with an erythema migrans and diagnosis was difficult as doctors noted the viral like symptoms and misdiagnosed the symptoms as meningitis. Her fever, pains and aches as well as cranial nerve involvement were caused from the Lyme bacteria exposure that, untreated, resulted in meningitis with facial paralysis. Diagnosis was confirmed only when the laboratory data returned with a positive culture of the Borrelia burgdorferi.

Analysis

Treatment for Lyme disease is a 30-day antibiotic course. It ...