Lyme disease

General information

• • Surveillance period: 2009 - active
  • Temporal resolution: Annual surveillance
  • Publication frequency: Data are updated every year when our yearly report is published
• Case definition :
  A case that meets one of the following:
  * Clinical diagnosis: presence of erythema migrans.
  * Clinical diagnosis with serological confirmation: presence of neurological, joint, skin or heart suggestive of Lyme disease in a patient with positive serology (ELISA test confirmed by a positive Western blot).
• Description for each case: age; sex; date of diagnosis; notion of tick bite preceding the current episode and if so date of the bite; cutaneous manifestations, and if so which ones (erythema migrans, lymphocytoma borrélien, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans); neurological manifestations, and if so which ones and results of lumbar puncture (if requested); joint manifestations, and if so where and what type (mono, poly or oligoarthritis); cardiac manifestations and if so which ones; results of serological tests ELISA and Western blot (if requested).
• Modifications affecting this indicator
  • 06-08-2010 Case validation procedure associated document

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