2017, volume 11, issue 2

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Przeglądanie 2017, volume 11, issue 2 według Temat "Borrelia burgdorferi"
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    Lyme borreliosis as a current health problem of the 21st century
    (Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej, 2017-07-28) Pacian, Anna ; Kulik, Teresa ; Szwedo, Elwira
    The aim of the paper is to present the current epidemiological situation of Lyme borreliosis in Poland as compared to the past years, with particular regard to Lublin Province. According to the Department of Epidemiology, Laboratory of Monitoring and Epidemiological Analysis, the National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene (NIPH – NIH), the number of cases of Lyme borreliosis reported for surveillance has increased significantly in the past three years. In 2016, the number stood at 21 220, i.e. 36% more than in 2015. The assessment of safety and sanitation standards conducted by State Sanitary Inspection for the year 2015 in Lublin Province showed that the incidence of Lyme borreliosis was 50.9 and that it was higher than the incidence in Poland – 35.4. Lyme borreliosis is a serious epidemiological and clinical problem in occupational risk groups, i.e. people working in agriculture, forestry and hunting. In serological surveys carried out in Lublin Province in the years 2011-2014, there was a much higher percentage of positive results in workers of several forest inspectorates than in those doing physical work related to forest exploitation (41.0%), as compared to the administrative staff (21.4%).
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    Role of VlsE/C6 antigen as a marker for early Lyme borreliosis diagnosis and monitoring the effectiveness of its treatment
    (Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej, 2017-07-28) Krzemień, Paweł Jan
    Diagnosing Lyme borreliosis, despite years of standardization, continues to encounter difficulties. They result primarily from the lack of a good marker of active infection and one helpful in assessing the effectiveness of the treatment. So far, a certain diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis can be made only in a patient with erythema migrans (EM). Unfortunately, this symptom occurs only in some patients. According to the recommendations of the Polish Society of Epidemiologists and Doctors of Infectious Diseases, the effectiveness of treatment is determined by the disappearance of clinical symptoms. For this reason, for years, we have been looking for highly sensitive and diagnostically specific laboratory markers. These would allow for rapid identification of fresh infections with Borrelia spirochetes as well as simple monitoring of treatment efficacy. According to many of the recently published publications, the solution to the second of the presented problems may be the measurement of IgG antibodies to the surface antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. VlsE / C6.