A boy with a tight skin: borrelia-associated early-onset morphea

CER6310
2014 Vol.32, N°1
PI 0121, PF 0122
Case Reports

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PMID: 24093617 [PubMed]

Received: 26/01/2013
Accepted : 30/04/2013
In Press: 30/09/2013
Published: 10/02/2014

Abstract

We present a case of a 16-year-old boy with morphea caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. We re-emphasise an immunohistochemical method, focus floating microscopy (FFM), to detect Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in tissue sections. Focus floating microscopy (FFM) proved to be more sensitive than polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nearly equally specific.