PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | skin disease |
| Phenotype | C0151514|atrophic skin |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 25386279 | Some atrophic skin diseases have been proposed as manifestation of lyme borreliosis with contradictory results.8,14 the detection methods, the examined specimens, such as sera, skin biopsies and urine, together with the different geographic region could explain the conflicting results on the association of borrelia with morphoea and lichen sclerosus et atrophicus.8 moreover in the manifestation of long standing infection of borrelia the paucity of microorganisms could lead to a low detection rate by pcr, especially when the analysis is performed on archival biopsies.8 no decision can be made to date as to whether bb plays a role as causative agent of different types of circumscribed scleroderma and lsa. |
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