ArticleBehavioural neurology2015
Gender Differences in Childhood Lyme Neuroborreliosis.
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- Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- Guillain-Barré Polyradiculoneuritis Developed in the Context of Lyme Neuroborreliosis in a 13-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Children.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Incidence of notified Lyme borreliosis in Germany, 2013-2017.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Sexual dimorphism in bacterial infections.Biology of sex differences · 2018Review
- Occurrence of erythema migrans in children with Lyme neuroborreliosis and the association with clinical characteristics and outcome - a prospective cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Did Garin and Bujadoux Actually Report a Case of Lyme Radiculoneuritis?Open forum infectious diseases · 2016Review
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Abstract
backgroundMany neurological diseases show differences between genders. We studied gender differences in childhood Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) in an endemic area of Lyme borreliosis in Norway.
methodsIn a population based study, all children (<14 years of age) with symptoms suspicious of LNB, including all children with acute facial nerve palsy, were evaluated for LNB by medical history, clinical examination, blood tests, and lumbar puncture. LNB was diagnosed according to international criteria.
results142 children were diagnosed with LNB during 2001-2009. Facial nerve palsy was more common in girls (86%) than in boys (62%) (p < 0.001), but headache and/or neck stiffness as the only symptom was more common in boys (30%) than in girls (10%) (p = 0.003). The girls were younger than boys and had a shorter duration of symptoms, but boys had a higher level of pleocytosis than girls. In a multivariate analysis, both gender and having headache and neck stiffness were associated with a higher level of pleocytosis.
conclusionGirls and boys have different clinical presentations of LNB, and boys have a higher level of inflammation than girls independent of the clinical presentation.
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