Direct morphological identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in the muscle biopsies: the possibility of association of the neuromuscular abnormalities with Borreliosis

The authors examined 40 muscle biopsy specimens taken from patients with neuromuscular symptoms when the diagnosis was unestablished or presumptive. Eighteen of them exhibited foci of muscle fiber damage with the presence of spirochete-like structures in the semithin tissue sections. Electron micros...

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Main Authors: A. V. Sakharova, L. V. Didenko, T. I. Muravina, R. P. Chaikovskaya, E. A. Kost, M. F. Mir-Kasimov
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: ABV-press 2015-02-01
Series:Nervno-Myšečnye Bolezni
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Online Access:https://nmb.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/39