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Joint manifestations of Lyme Disease are the rule in the United States of America, but seem to be the exception in the United Kingdom. One report from southern England documented a patient who developed a monoarthritis within 72 hours of a tick bite, a more generalised arthropathy evolving 2 weeks later when erythema ehronicum migrans (ECM) was still present (1). Sixty eight patients were identified as seropositive for Borrelia burgdorferi out of a total of 431 sera tested in a reference laboratory; of these seropositive patients only one reported joint symptoms (2) which took the form of a symmetrical polyarthritis and which resolved without antibaeterial therapy.
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Palferman, T.G. (1994). Lyme Arthritis: Experience from Somerset, England. 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_9
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