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Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a mulüsystemic disorder caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi It is endemic in Italy, particularly in three areas: Liguria, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige. In fact almost all the patients come from North Italy, while only sporadic cases of this disease were reported in the centre and in the south of the country. In 1983 Lyme disease was first described in Italy by Crovato and Trevisan. In 1989 in Trieste the firt Italian species of Borrelia burgdorferi was isolated in a skin biopsy specimen taken from Erythema Chronicum Migrans. It was called BITS1.
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Trevisan, G. et al. (1994). Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Italy. In: Axford, J.S., Rees, D.H.E. (eds) Lyme Borreliosis. NATO ASI Series, vol 260. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2415-1_22
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