CME/Answers: Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Lyme Disease

Praxis (Bern 1994). 2021 Apr;110(6):299-300. doi: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003666.ABSTRACT Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in Switzerland and Lyme arthritis the most prevalent manifestation of late-stage Lyme disease. It presents as a monoarthitis or oligoarthritis in large joints, often involving the knee. Such a clinical presentation, together with positive Lyme serologies or polymerase chain reactions from synovial fluid/tissue, is considered diagnostic. If there is no tick bite or erythema migrans in the patient's history the diagnosis can be challenging due to the many differential diagnoses. The initial treatment is a prolonged course of oral antibiotics.PMID:33906447 | DOI:10.1024/1661-8157/a003666
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