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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2020

A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis: From Clinical Heterogeneity to Laboratory Methods.

Giusto Trevisan, Serena Bonin, Maurizio Ruscio

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Incidence of Lyme Borreliosis in Europe: A Systematic Review (2005-2020).Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Giusto TrevisanDSM-Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Serena BoninDSM-Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Maurizio RuscioASU GI-Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Trieste, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical evaluation of Lyme Borreliosis (LB) is the starting point for its diagnosis. The patient's medical history and clinical symptoms are fundamental for disease recognition. The heterogeneity in clinical manifestations of LB can be related to different causes, including the different strains of Borrelia, possible co-infection with other tick transmitted pathogens, and its interactions with the human host. This review aims at describing the heterogeneous symptoms of Lyme Borreliosis, as well as offering a practical approach for recognition of the disease, both in terms of clinical features and diagnostic/research tools.

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Borreliaclinical heterogeneityclinical symptomsdiagnosisLyme disease

Identifiers

PMID32793606
PMCPMC7390863

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