Borrelia burgdorferi infection among forestry workers - assessed with an immunoenzymatic method (ELISA), PCR and correlated with the clinical state of the patients.

Occurrence of borreliosis in human population is associated with possibility of contact with the biological vector of this disease - a common European tick, Ixodes ricinus. Therefore, the highest number of cases of Lyme disease has been recorded among forestry workers and inhabitants of wooded areas. Diagnostics of borreliosis is based on immunoserologic tests - ELISA or indirect immunofluorescence method, Western blot technique, or on increasingly popular DNA examination using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Parasitic cysts of the liver - practical approach to diagnosis and differentiation.

Background: The aim of the study was to determine the incidence of parasitic liver cysts.

Material And Methods: In 1996-2000 at the Department of Infectious Diseases parasitic liver cysts were diagnosed in 31 patients. The diagnosis was based on imaging examinations (ultrasound, computerised tomography), serological reactions (ELISA, IHA) and histopathological investigation of the specimens obtained through fine-needle aspiration biopsy.

[Epidemiologic-clinical aspects of tick borne borreliosis in the Szczecin Province].

The aim of the study was to assess if Szczecin voivodeship is an area of endemic borreliosis, assess the risk due to B. burgdorferi infection in habitants and evaluate clinical manifestations of borreliosis. The study was conducted in 1993-1995, material comprised 299 persons (211 men and 88 women) aged from 3 to 78 years, divided into two groups.

[Development of infectious diseases treatment in Szczecin following the World War Two through the prism of infectious diseases ward].

The epidemiological situation of Szczecin following the liberation was both difficult and dangerous. Numerous cases of typhus, diphteria ague, venereal diseases, typhoid and dysentery were noted and an urgent need of dealing with them was necessary. Thus an infectious diseases ward was opened in 1945 at 4 Arkońska Str.

[Amebic liver abscess--personal observations].

In the period of 1989-1995 seven patients with amebic liver abscess were observed in Clinic of Infectious Diseases of Pomeranian Medical School in Szczecin. The diagnosis has been made on the base of epidemiological data, presence of intrahepatic defect by a scanning procedure of liver (ultrasonography, CT, scintigraphy) and positive serologic test for amebiasis. All patients were male of Polish nationality, 29-57 years old, who became ill after travel to Africa or India.