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ArticleJournal of investigative medicine high impact case reports

Erosive Vulvovaginitis Associated With Borrelia burgdorferi Infection.

Melissa C Fesler, Marianne J Middelveen, Jennie M Burke, Raphael B Stricker

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Article in Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Melissa C Fesler1 Union Square Medical Associates, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Marianne J Middelveen2 Atkins Veterinary Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Jennie M Burke3 Australian Biologics, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Raphael B Stricker1 Union Square Medical Associates, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Medical Research Associates · USCalgary Laboratory Services · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a case of acute erosive vulvovaginitis accompanying Borrelia burgdorferi infection. The patient is a 57-year-old woman previously diagnosed with Lyme disease who presented with a painful erosive genital lesion. At the time of the outbreak, she was being treated with oral antibiotics, and she tested serologically positive for B burgdorferi and serologically negative for syphilis. Histological examination of biopsy tissue from the lesion was not characteristic of dermatopathological patterns typical of erosive vulvar conditions. Dieterle-stained biopsy sections revealed visible spirochetes throughout the stratum spinosum and stratum basale, and anti- B burgdorferi immunostaining was positive. Motile spirochetes were observed by darkfield microscopy and cultured in Barbour-Stoner-Kelly-complete medium inoculated with skin scrapings from the lesion. Cultured spirochetes were identified genetically as B burgdorferi sensu stricto by polymerase chain reaction, while polymerase chain reaction amplification of treponemal gene targets was negative. The condition resolved after treatment with additional systemic antibiotic therapy and topical antibiotics. In cases of genital ulceration that have no identifiable etiology, the possibility of B burgdorferi spirochetal infection should be considered.

Indexed as

BiopsyBorrelia burgdorferiDNA, BacterialFemaleHumansLyme DiseaseMiddle AgedPolymerase Chain ReactionVulvovaginitisDNA, Bacteriallichen planuslichen sclerosusLyme diseasespirochetesvulvovaginitis

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PMID31043089
PMCPMC6498767
OpenAlexW2943055301

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