Inflammatory Responses in Solitary and Multiple Erythema Migrans

University Medical Centre Ljubljana

Status: Completed

Conditions: Erythema Migrans

Treatments: Other: antibiotic treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03980015

MEM vs EM cyto

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will evaluate differences in host immune responses (levels of cytokines and chemokines, representative of innate, Th1, and Th17 immune responses) in acute sera from adult patients with solitary or multiple erythema migrans.

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• erythema migrans in patients > 18 years
• Borrelia afzelii isolated from skin

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy or immunocompromising conditions
• taking antibiotic with antiborrelial activity within 10 days

Trial design

134 participants in 1 patient group

erythema migrans

Description:

patients with erythema migrans

Treatment:

Other: antibiotic treatment